Bhubaneswar: Bakul Foundation, a movement to demonstrate the power of volunteerism in Odisha, has ramped up its digital engagement with children and youth by creating learning opportunities digitally and running online campaigns during the pandemic.
It has started a new series Bakul Talks on Tuesdays, which will feature talks by experts on:
- Topics of common interest to curious individuals
- Interesting and intelligible to teenagers
- Yet insightful to intellectuals
The online public lectures will be live every Tuesday at 7pm on Bakul Foundation social media handles on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram.
The first series in Bakul Talks on the Nobel Prizes for 2020 began on October 27. For the next six weeks, an expert will speak in English about the significance of the contribution of the winner/s of the Nobel Prize for that field and take questions from the audience.
Tomorrow’s talk on the Nobel Prize for Physics 2020 will be delivered by Prof L P Singh, physicist and cosmologist, who retired from Utkal University and is one of the best known researchers on black holes in India.
The other speakers in the Bakul Talks on the Nobel Prizes on subsequent Tuesdays are:
Prof. Jeevant Rampal of IIM Ahmedabad; poet and Central Sahitya Akademi Award winner Ranjit Hoskote; Prof Jyotirmayee Dash, the recent recipient of the Bhatnagar Award and Dr. Sujata Kar of Kar Hospital
