Dr. Ram Karan Sharma, a renowned Sanskrit scholar and expert in Ayurveda, from
Delhi, India, will engage in a dialogue on the Contemporary Relevance of
Ayurveda with Dr. Aparna Bapat, a premier writer, scholar, lecturer, and
practitioner of Ayurveda.
Palace at the Ben will be providing a buffet of
Indian cuisine.
Purchasing tickets for the event will benefit the Udayer Pathey
Scholarship Project, which allows meritorious, but impoverished rural Indian
students to attend medical school and hopefully return to improve healthcare in
their towns and villages.
Tickets cost $5, and they can be reserved by emailing
wschenk@sas.upenn.edu or may be purchased at the door. For more information on
the scholarship project, please visit the program’s website: http://www.rtiics.org/scholarships/index.htm
This event is sponsored by Student Ambassadors of the World, the Health and
Societies Department, Department of South Asia Studies, the South Asia Center,
and Pratit: An Association for Change.
South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania
820 Williams Hall, 255 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: 215-898-7475/4490, Fax: 215-573-2138; Email: haimanti@sas.upenn.edu
