KaviKrishna Centre for Indian Knowledge System

28/04/2026

Music Therapy: Part of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems & Ancient Healing

'Emergence of synthesis' where Art reached a new dimension through the healing experience. I guess we all, somehow, sometime, are confronted with this long-running debate whether ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ or ‘Art for People’; but never arriving at any conclusion and always keep searching for the ideal answer. But here is a dawn of hope, brought by KaviKrishna Telemedicine Care (KTC), in ending this debate by providing a new aspect of synthesis with their initiation of ‘Cancer care through Music Therapy’ for the cancer patients: ‘Art always serves people with its aesthetic power to heal’. The hope brought by KTC is not limited to an aesthetic social debate only; it is more than that. This is the hope for cancer patients, this is the hope for the community, and this is the hope for the poor brought by KaviKrishna Telemedicine Care for more than 30 years. Through every bit of harmony in the music, we can see the smile and energy of hope in the faces of the patients. We can realize the great value of music reached through the healing experiences of the patients. This is the actual application of Art, Care and medicine, the actual application of Medical Humanities, the actual application of ancient Kamrupi Healing Art.

31/03/2026

Ancient Kamrupia Ta***ic Healing System

Bikul Das gave a talk on the Kamrupia Ta***ic Healing System at the Seminar on Traditional Healing Practices of Assam, organized by the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, IIT Guwahati. In his talk, he focuses on his decades-long ethnographical and phenomenological work on the Jiva Upakara Ta**ra of Ancient Kamrupa and currently, how KaviKrishna Centre for Indian Knowledge System at Sualkuchi is working in rediscovering and unveiling the academic insight of this Indigenous Healing system of ancient Kamrupa.

To learn more about it, please visit:
https://youtu.be/9UHVlMF2sho?si=Oi8DBr40jviB6H04

22/01/2026

On the occasion of Magh Bihu, Bikul Das and KaviKrishna team raised awareness among the Sualkuchi community about plastic use, its harmful effects on health, and ways to address and reduce this problem.

30/11/2025

মাৰ্কিন যুক্তৰাষ্ট্ৰত মুগা বস্ত্ৰৰে শোশোভিত নামঘৰৰ গুৰু-আসন

শ্ৰীমন্ত শংকৰদেৱ গুৰুজনাৰ মহান আদৰ্শক সৰোগত কৰিয়েই তেৰাৰ ধৰ্ম, তত্ব, দৰ্শন, সংস্কৃতি বিশ্বব্যাপি বিস্তৃত কৰাৰ লক্ষ্যৰে যোৱা ইং ১৫ নৱেম্বৰ, ২০২৫ তাৰিখে উত্তৰ আমেৰিকাস্থিত অসমীয়া সমাজে নিউ জাৰ্চীৰ মাৰ্টিনছভিলৰ নামঘৰত সম্পূৰ্ণ বৈষ্ণৱ পৰম্পৰাৰে এখনি গুৰু-আসন প্ৰতিষ্ঠা কৰে। উক্ত অনুষ্ঠানত শুৱালকুছিৰ কবিকৃষ্ণ ভাৰতীয় জ্ঞান প্ৰণালী কেন্দ্ৰৰ তৰফৰ পৰা ডা° বিকুল দাস আৰু ড° লেখিকা পাঠকে উপস্থিত থাকি এই গুৰু-আসনখনৰ প্ৰতি এখনি মুগা বস্ত্ৰ প্ৰদান কৰে। এই পৱিত্ৰ অনুষ্ঠানটিত বিকুল দাসে খোল-তাল বজাই নাম-প্ৰসংগৰ আঁত-ধৰাৰ উপৰিও লেখিকা পাঠকে এটি বৰগীতো পৰিৱেশন কৰে লগতে কিদৰে কবিকৃষ্ণই শুৱালকুছিৰ কবিকৃষ্ণ জীৱন্ত মুগা সংগ্ৰহালয়ৰ জৰিয়তে কৰ্কট ৰোগীসকলৰ প্ৰচেষ্টাত বৈ উলিওৱা মুগা বস্ত্ৰ এখনি প্ৰাচীন বৈদিক পৰম্পৰাক পুনৰ্জ্জীৱিত কৰাৰ উদ্দ্যেশ্যে এই গুৰু-আসনখনিত অৰ্পণ কৰা হ’ল সেই বিষয়ে সকলোকে অৱগত কৰে। ইয়াৰ পূৰ্বে যোৱা ১ নৱেম্বৰ তাৰিখে এই একেটা নামঘৰৰেই এটি আলোচনা-চক্ৰৰ লগতে নাম-প্ৰসংগত অংশ লয় ভাৰতৰ লোকসভা সাংসদ তথা ভাৰতীয় জনতা পাৰ্টিৰ সভাপতি শ্ৰীযুত দিলীপ শইকীয়া আৰু সাংসদ শ্ৰীযুত জয়ন্ত বসুমতাৰী।

Guru Āsana Adorned with Muga Silk in the United States

With the noble aim of spreading the religion, philosophy, teachings, and culture of Srimanta Sankaradeva across the world by upholding his great ideals in their true essence, the Assamese community of North America established a Guru Āsana in the complete Vaishnavite tradition at the Namaghār in Martinsville, New Jersey, on 15 November 2025.
During this ceremony, Bikul Das and Lekhika Pathak, from the KaviKrishna Centre for Indian Knowledge System, Sualkuchi, were present and offered a Muga Silk Fabric for the Guru Āsana. At this sacred event, Dr. Bikul Das played the khol and taal during the naam-prasanga, while Dr. Lekhika Pathak performed a Borgeet. Dr. Pathak also informed everyone how KaviKrishna, through the KaviKrishna Living Muga Museum in Sualkuchi, has been working to revive an ancient Vedic tradition by dedicating a piece of muga cloth woven through the efforts of cancer patients to this Guru Āsana.
Earlier, on 1 November, Shri Dilip Saikia, Member of Parliament and President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Shri Jayanta Basumatary, Member of Parliament, also participated in a discussion and Naam-Prasanga were held at the same Naamghar.

10/02/2025

Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Government of India, Sarbananda Sonowal visited the exhibition at Bharat Bodh Conclave 2025. The exhibition theme was on ‘Indigenous culture and Indigenous knowledge system-based livelihood of Bharat'. This exhibition is led by KaviKrishna Centre for Indian Knowledge System Sualkuchi.

08/02/2025

In the Bharat Bodh Conclave 2025 organized by Ishan Bodh & Nishreyas, KaviKrishna IKS Centre Sualkuchi has led the exhibition with a theme on ‘Indigenous culture and Indigenous knowledge system-based livelihood of Bharat'. This exhibition has included showcased the different livelihood of North-East India based on their Indigenous cultures which included Pottery Culture, Traditional Mask Making, Manuscript making, Muga weaving culture, Terracotta, wooden crafts etc. It has showcase the culture of Northeast India to the rest of the Bharat, to the rest of the participants coming from other states of Bharat and also from overseas. This Exhibition theme is design and managed by Dr. Lekhika Pathak and coordinated by Rupam Das. Tomorrow is the last day of exhibition, you all are cordially invited.

02/11/2024

Dr. Bikul Das and Dr. Lekhika Pathak from KaviKrishna Laboratory sharing the judging table in the final round of the essay competition on “Pandit Hemchandra Goswami: his contributions towards Assamese language and culture” organized by Centre for Indian Knowledge System, IIT-Guwahati and Asam Sahitya Sabha. This final round presentation of the competition is moderated by the Head of the centre Prof. Uday Shanker Dixit where students from all over Assam participated and enthusiastically presented their knowledge on Pandit Hemchandra Goswami. Grandson of Pandit Hemchandra Goswami, Dr. Naba Goswami also shares the judging table and gives his insights into the competition.

14/08/2024

Through our international exchange student program, KaviKrishna Lab welcomed Moana Gregori to our Medical Humanities Team at KaviKrishna Centre for Indian Knowledge System in the summer internship session for July-August 2024. Originally from Austria, Moana studies Economics and Anthropology as a rising junior at Bowdoin College in the US. Moana has joined us through the Riley Research grant, awarded by Bowdoin College.

At KaviKrishna, Moana’s research project studies the impact of KaviKrishnas microfinance programs to revive the ancient Muga silk tradition in Sualkuchi. Under the supervision of Bikul Das and Lekhika Pathak, in collaboration with our PhD student Rupam Das, she engages in interviews, field visits, and participant observations with our weaver network in Sualkuchi. She has visited several weaver families, spent time at our telemedicine clinic and muga museum, visited satras and temples, built relationships with our community. We are very happy seeing her engagement with the community and hopeful that we would be able to expand the knowledge of muga silk culture in the world with more students from different regions of the globe.

KaviKrishna Living Muga Museum

05/06/2024

কবিকৃষ্ণ ভাৰতীয় জ্ঞান প্ৰণালী কেন্দ্ৰ, শুৱালকুছিৰ উদ্যোগত বিশ্ব পৰিৱেশ দিৱস পালন

আজি বিশ্ব পৰিৱেশ দিৱস উপলক্ষে কবিকৃষ্ণ ভাৰতীয় জ্ঞান প্ৰণালী কেন্দ্ৰ, শুৱালকুছিৰ উদ্যোগত এখনি পৰিৱেশ সজাগতামূলক সভাৰ লগতে এটি পৰিৱেশ যাত্ৰাৰ জৰিয়তে শুৱালকুছি বালিচৰৰ সুৱাদমুণি ক্ষেত্ৰত গছপুলি ৰোপণ কৰা হয়। এই অনুষ্ঠানটোত উপস্থিত থাকি শুৱালকুছিৰ বিশিষ্ট সাংবাদিক যোগেন ভৰালী আৰু বিশিষ্ট অনাঁতাৰ শিল্পী কনকলতা দাসে পৰিৱেশ সংৰক্ষণ আৰু আমি গ্ৰহণ কৰিবলগীয়া ব্যৱস্থাসমূহৰ বিষয়ে আলোকপাত কৰে। ইয়াৰোপৰিওঁ আজিৰ এই অনুষ্ঠানটোত স্থানীয় মহিলাসকলো উপস্থিত থাকে আৰু অনুষ্ঠানটোৰ শেষত সকলোৱে মিলি এটি পৰিৱেশ সজাগতা যাত্ৰৰ জৰিয়েত শুৱালকুছি বালিচৰৰ সুৱাদমুণি ক্ষেত্ৰত গছপুলি ৰোপণ কৰা হয়।

23/05/2024

Development of a Vedic Jiva Upakara Ta**ra (Vedic Altruism) Based Rural Public Health System

Dr. Bikul Das addressed a lecture at the Centre for Indian Knowledge System, IIT-Guwahati where he talked about how KaviKrishna works on the Development of a Vedic Jiva Upakara Ta**ra (Vedic Altruism) Based Rural Public Health System.

Dr. Bikul Das address a lecture at the Centre for Indian Knowledge System, IIT-Guwahati where he talks about how KaviKrishna works on the Development of a Ve...