Dr.D.K.Hari and Dr.D.K.Hema Hari, husband-wife duo are founders of Bharath Gyan (www.bharathgyan.com) a forerunner in Indian Civilization Knowledge Studies, conceptualized over 25 years ago with a mission to raise awareness about the knowledge, practices and global connects of the Indian Civilization over millennia, from an Indic Perspective.
The couple have had a 20 year high profile career in the field of Management and IT respectively and have held Senior Management positions. They have travelled extensively to 40 countries across the globe to explore other cultures.
Bharath Gyan’s Indic narrative showcases the Scientific and Industrial aspects of the Bharatiya civilization besides highlighting its Spiritual aspects and shows how it is the ethos of their twinning which had sustained flourish for this civilization across millennia.
It highlights the contributions made by the Indian civilization to the world across millennia, in the realm of Matter and Mind and how they have been Game Changers for shaping the world to what it is today.
They have so far collated over 500 hours of multimedia content on the Indian Civilization and its global connects across over 108 different subjects and have published 100 books as part of Autobiography of India collection besides 5 Documentary films, 700 short films and 600 Blog articles.
They have been disseminating this knowledge to the youth and students through lectures, talks, films, writings, expos and social media.
They are visiting faculty for Indian Civilization Studies at Universities in India and Overseas and conduct online courses.
They are sought after for curating expositions and for their multimedia talks in the field of Indian Civilization’s handling of Governance, Water, Agriculture, Education, Women Empowerment, Indian Knowledge Systems and Culture across ages.
Some of their key contributions at a National level include:
- Member of delegation for CIVIL BRICS, Moscow, Russia in 2015
- Delivered Key Session for Youth in Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, 2015
- Authoring book and Designing, Curating and Setting up “Knowing New India” Pavilion for Ministry of External Affairs at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Varanasi in 2019
- Knowledge Partner for Bharat Ko Janiye Quiz of Ministry Of External Affairs
- Mentoring NGOs across India on water harnessing and river rejuvenation projects for applying Indic wisdom in their projects
- Authoring and Publishing of books for Ek Bharat Sreshta Bharat events in 2022, 2023 as well as for the inauguration of Sri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in 2024
- Kasi Tamilagam – A Traditional Connect
- Saurashtra Tamilagam – Millennia Of Connect
- Sri Rama In Tamilagam, An Inseparable Bond
They are also recipients of
- Rukmini & Viswanathan Memorial Life Time Achievement Award in the field of Bharatiya Civilization Knowledge by Rukmini Arts and Music Trust on 9th September, 2023.
- Grateful to Guru award by Indica on 29th July, 2023.
- Honoris Causa Doctorate, Ph.D awarded by Sri Sri University on September 5th, 2019 for 2 decades of research in Civilizational Studies and publishing many books, films and writings.
- B.R.Haran Memorial Award on August 14th, 2019
- Visalakshi Award from the Art of Living in Bengaluru, on February 23rd,2018 for the pioneering efforts to repurpose ancient knowledge for the modern age.
They are Members on boards of many public institutions in the fields of health, education and culture.
Their compilation and dissemination work has led Bharath Gyan to be recognized as a Knowledge partner to the Indian Knowledge Systems Division, Ministry of Education, Government of India.