Rajiv Malhotra
was trained initially as a Physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in AI in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the US, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies in 20 countries. Since the early 1990s, as the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA), he has been researching civilizations and their engagement with technology from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective. He has authored several best-selling books. Infinity Foundation has also published a 14-volume series on the History of Indian Science & Technology.
Rajiv has authored the following game-changing publications:
- Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger’s Erotic School of Indology
- The Battle For Sanskrit: “Is Sanskrit political or sacred, oppressive or liberating, dead or alive?”
- Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
- Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines
- Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
- Sanskrit Non-Translatables: The Importance of Sanskritizing English
Rajiv Malhotra also serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is a visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is on the Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.