Professor Kanti Mardia
Topic: Jain Revolutionary Thinking
Presented by: Professor Kanti Mardia
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29th, 2018 @ 11:00 AM
Venue: Jain Center of BC @ Unit 208, 14770 64 Ave, Surrey, BC V3S 1X7, Canada
Professor Kanti Mardia is a Senior Research Professor of Statistics at Leeds University and Oxford University with several prestigious awards. He is a pioneer in Jainism, Jain thinking and Jain way of living and has been active for several decades in the British Jain community; he is president of the Yorkshire Jain Foundation which he founded three decades ago.
In addition to his statistical publications, Mardia has published several articles on Jainism, and was editor of Jain magazine. His Jain books are The Scientific Foundations of Jainism, (1990, 2016), translated into Hindi and Gujarati, Jain Thoughts and Prayers (992, 2007, 2017), Living Jainism – An Ethical Science (2013) with Rankin. The National Council of Vanik Associations (UK) honoured him in 2004 for his contributions to the Jain community.
In addition to delivering presentations around the world, Prof. Mardia collaborated in 2014 with the late Bollywood composer Ravindra Jain on an album of songs on the 4NT, Atma Ajar Amar Hai, in order to reach the widest possible audience through music – the most accessible form of communication there is. The first two songs from the album are on the You tube with several hits : the title track and its follow-up, Mana Karma bandha bandhe.
With the new hunger to learn our roots, he has been invited at many high profile venues as a key speakers such as the JAINA convention 2017 at the USA, House of Commons on AHIMSA Day 2017, and recently at the YJA convention 2018 Chicago through JNTA Jian Noble Truth Association) of which he is the Founder President.
This all underlines the powerful draw and international appeal of Prof. Mardia’s work and its impact in satisfying the hunger among contemporary Jains and broader audiences alike to understand the roots of our religion.
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