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  • Wonder Woman Workshop: Mental Well-Being for Girl Students — Live Online, 3 October

    Program announcement · Wonder Woman Workshop · Live online

    Every girl carries a quiet war nobody grades her on: the exam that will not leave her head at 2 a.m., the scroll that ends with her feeling smaller than when she began, the voice that says everyone else is managing better. Marks are discussed at every dinner table. The mind that earns them almost never is.

    The Wonder Woman Workshop is two hours built for exactly that conversation — a live, online workshop for girl students on mental well-being, where practical psychology and Sanatan wisdom sit side by side, the way they always should have.

    Three sessions, one sitting

    1. Mental Health — a practical talk on understanding stress, improving focus and concentration, and building mental habits that hold up in exam season, not just on calm days.
    2. Sanatan and Mental Health — how Sanatan thought and practice support a calm, balanced and resilient mind. Not a sermon; a toolkit our civilisation refined over millennia, read for what it does to a stressed sixteen-year-old’s evening.
    3. Self-Esteem & the Comparison Trap — the psychology of self-worth: what body image and social-media comparison actually do inside a teenager’s mind, and how confidence is built from within rather than borrowed from a feed.

    The details

    • Who: girl students — school and college
    • When: Friday, 3 October · 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    • Where: live online, in the Indic Warriors learning app — join from wherever you are
    • Fee: ₹99, for Scholar members

    How to enroll

    Everything happens from one page: the workshop’s enrollment page. It walks you through whatever applies to you:

    1. New here? Create your free Indic Warriors account first — a person reviews and approves every registration.
    2. A member, but not yet a Scholar? Workshops are a Scholar-member benefit — and Scholar is now just ₹21 a month, opening the full library alongside every program we run. The page takes you through it and brings you straight back.
    3. Already a Scholar? Confirm your details, pay the ₹99 seat, and you are in — your dashboard carries the community link and, close to the day, the joining details.

    → Reserve your seat

    Seats are confirmed in order of enrollment. Every enrolled member gets the session community for updates, a contact number for questions, and the recording arrangements shared in-app.

    This workshop is the first in Indic Warriors’ new programs series — live, online, membership-first. If this one is not for you but you know a girl student it is for, sending her this page is the most useful share you will make this week.

    Credits: Indic Warriors — program desk. Enrollment and queries: your dashboard, or the program contact number shown after enrollment.

  • Literary & Cultural Club — September Meet: Monday, 7 September 2026

    Club circular · Literary & Cultural Club

    The club meets on its rhythm — the first Monday of every month — and the next sitting is Monday, 7 September 2026. Venue details go to registered members directly.

    On the agenda

    1. Reading circle: this month’s text discussion — bring your copy and one passage you’d defend.
    2. Field stories from Kutumb Katha: interns from the internship cohort share what listening to two generations of one family actually taught them.
    3. The season ahead: the Conclave (28–30 Sept & 1–2 Oct) and the club’s part in it.

    Joining

    Membership is free and is the club’s single door: register here and the meet details reach you. Everything else about the club lives on its home page: Literary & Cultural Club.

    Credits: Indic Warriors — club coordinators: Dr. Bhanumati Mishra, Mohan Rao Balaga, Vidisha Chitravanshi.

  • #BringOurGodsHome — Vijay Kumar on Reclaiming India’s Stolen Deities (Talk Summary)

    Talk summary · Speaker: Vijay Kumar (India Pride Project) · Platform: Sangam Talks — independent summary with full credit.

    In one line

    A volunteer network armed with nothing more exotic than search engines, social media, and high-resolution photographs built the evidence chains that museums and governments could not ignore — and India’s looted deities began coming home.

    Five key points

    1. The scale is civilizational: deities, maps, and manuscripts smuggled out for decades — the Brihadeshwara complex’s stolen Nataraja standing for thousands of cases.
    2. The laundering route is corporate: handlers pick pieces in India; papers are forged abroad; auction houses sell; national museums buy in good faith. Theft ends its journey behind glass, respectable.
    3. The method is open-source seva: volunteers photograph suspect idols in Sydney or Berlin; matches are made against Indian archives; the paper trail is rebuilt in public.
    4. Restitution works: matched evidence has forced returns from national collections — proof that the question “can we really get them back?” has an answer.
    5. The deeper claim: a murti is not an artefact but a consecrated presence — which is why the campaign’s name says gods, not art.

    In the speaker’s words

    “Treasures have been looted for decades and centuries.”

    “But most importantly, can we really ever get them back?”

    Our note

    This campaign is heritage work at its most concrete, and it pairs with the scholarship: Meenakshi Jain’s Flight of Deities documents the older chapters of the same story — images hidden to survive, now images recovered to return. Both live on our Temple, Art & Heritage shelf.

    Credits

    Watch the full talk: on YouTube (Sangam Talks channel).
    Speaker: Vijay Kumar, co-founder, India Pride Project; author of The Idol Thief.
    Original talk: Sangam Talks. Independent summary, full attribution.

  • Cleaning the Ghats of Kashi — Temsutula Imsong & Shailesh Pandey (Talk Summary)

    Talk summary · Speakers: Temsutula Imsong & Shailesh Pandey · Platform: Sangam Talks — independent summary with full credit.

    In one line

    Two volunteers began scrubbing Varanasi’s neglected ghats with their own hands; three days, three hundred kilograms of waste, and a Prime Ministerial mention later, their Mission Prabhu Ghat became the working template for citizen-led seva across thirty cities.

    Five key points

    1. It began with presence, not a plan. Imsong travelled to Varanasi after following the clean-up work online — and stayed, because the work in front of her was undeniable.
    2. The ghats named the mission. Kedar Ghat and Gaurikund came first: filthy, then scrubbed, then refilled with water — restoration, not just cleaning.
    3. Shramdaan means the gift of labour. The model asks nothing but hands: groups voluntarily adopt a public place, clean it, and — the hard part — keep maintaining it.
    4. Recognition followed the work. The Prime Minister’s endorsement came a month AFTER the mission’s results — proof that visible seva creates its own momentum.
    5. The template scales: by late 2015, volunteers in 30+ cities had adopted the model — a distributed civic movement grown from one riverfront.

    In the speakers’ words

    “Some of the most memorable days of my life, to be honest.”

    “And in Shailesh’s direction, we cleaned it completely.”

    Our note

    This is the Kashi our own work stands in — the same ghats we document in our first album and walk on the Kashi & Prayagraj Heritage Yatra. Seva of place and study of place are one discipline; this talk is its founding story in our generation.

    Credits

    Watch the full talk: on YouTube (Sangam Talks channel).
    Speakers: Temsutula Imsong & Shailesh Pandey (Mission Parijat / Shramdaan).
    Original talk: Sangam Talks. Independent summary, full attribution. More in Podcasts & Channel.

  • Annual Indic Warriors Conclave 2026 — Varanasi

    The first Annual Indic Warriors Conclave · Varanasi · 2026

    This year we hold our first annual gathering — the Conclave that every future year will build on. Two sittings, one city:

    Programme

    • Varanasi Heritage Forums — 28–30 September 2026, Assi Ghat Convocation Hall: three days of forums on the living heritage of Kashi with our institutional network.
    • IKS Pedagogy Workshops — 1–2 October 2026, BHU Guest House Auditorium: hands-on workshops for teachers, continuing the FDP line of work.

    Participation

    Seats are reserved for members first. Membership is free — register here — and the registration desk opens with the final programme. Details and any changes will be updated on this page and on the Annual Meet page.

    Draft note: this is the baseline announcement for our first-ever conclave; speakers, session titles, and registration windows land here as they are confirmed.