Once in Bombay we received a fax from a Hyderabad organization requesting my appearance as a speaker. This is how I came to know of Prajna Bharati. I first spoke in Hyderabad in 1996, giving programs on the Vedas at Prajna Bharati and on Ayurveda at Vijnana Bharati. The audience was quite  large and the questions very profound. In 1997 I returned to help launch the first issue of Prajna, a magazine for Prajna Bharati in  Hyderabad and contributed regularly to that publication as well. Later in 1999 I did several programs for them, including a debate with the Archbishop of Hyderabad that appears later in this book.

Prajna Bharati is perhaps the best organized Hindu think tank and intellectual center in India. It brings together important thinkers on various topics, representing all  sides, and creates a forum for dialogue, debate and discussion. Hopefully such centers will open throughout the country.