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Who We Are

World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES) “A Multidisciplinary Academic Society, Tax Exempt in USA” is a multidisciplinary academic society. It is a forum for all scholarly activities and views on any area of Vedic Studies variously called Indian Studies, South Asian Studies or Indology. WAVES is not confined to study related to Vedas alone or to India alone. It encompasses all that applies to traditions commonly called Vedic, past, present and future, anywhere in the world.

Vision & Mission

The Society, for furtherance of its aims and objectives, will undertake to do the following :

  • To organize activities, such as conferences, discussion groups, workshops, lectures, camps, concerts, performances.
  • To sponsor, promote, establish, develop, control, supervise, support, encourage and run institutions (such as centers, schools, reference libraries).
  • To publish journals, monographs, periodicals, books, magazines, papers, etc.
  • To disseminate in all possible ways knowledge and findings on Vedic and ancient Indian traditions.

Some Comments from the Participants on the Conference ‘WAVES 2022’

My heartiest congratulations to ALL members of the WAVES Team for successfully presenting interesting papers in the WAVES 2022 Conference. The Conference is well organized by the eminent members of WAVES Organizers. I have been attending the WAVES Conferences for over three years. I think this is the best. It is not easy to conduct such conferences with large participants across the globe. The plenary lectures on the three days were thought provoking for the researchers and scholars in the Vedic Research activities. Congratulations again to the presenters and the organizers.

Dr. Raghava Boddupalli, Karnataka

Congratulations & Thanks to the organizers of WAVES. The conference proceeded very well and the presentations were quite interesting. Good to see the energy and spirit continuing to build on the long tradition of earlier conferences, the breakout rooms on Zoom, the live streaming on several platforms. WAVES has become my preferred conference to present my work, and hope to continue in the years to come. Thanks once again to the organizers and presenters.

Dr. Raj Vedam, USA

Thanks to all… specially organisers of WAVES…. it’s a great experience for me to be a part of it…thanks to all the participants and their valuable lectures…it enriched me.

Dr. Partha sarathi Bhattacharya, Kolkata

Deepest congratulations to the WAVES team and all of us who took part in this great event with no political borders, visas and other non-Vedic trifles. Jeya all of us!!!

Dr. Aleh Perzashkevich, Belarus

Kudos for organizing the multi-room zoom sessions of WAVES 2022 with efficiency, precision and on time.

Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, Chennai

I have been in the conference all the three days from beginning to the end continuously. It was a great event, full of information and thought-provoking speeches and presentations.

Dr. Sati Shankar, Delhi

I heartily thank the entire WAVES team for giving me this opportunity to participate in and learn from scholars from such different knowledge domains. I once more congratulate the entire team for the impeccable organization of such huge event. Spiritually elevating experience indeed.

Dr. Raj Verma Sinha, Delhi

Congratulations to the Organizers of WAVES for their Hard work and sincere efforts. The programme was extremely well planned. The theme was really good. The whole conference went on in a splendid manner. Listening to the distinguished scholars in the field of Vedic knowledge was an amazing experience for me.

Dr. Jayanti P Sahoo, Delhi

Congratulations to all the members of organizing committee for grand WAVES 2022, specially both the Presidents, Professors Shashi Ji, and core team.

Prof. Sheela Misra, Lucknow

Before the conference there was serious scepticism about the short time-slot, but it actually transpires that this cuts out a lot of extra luggage. Stuff like the references can be put in the written version of the paper. So, a surprisingly successful formula.

Dr. Koenraad Elst, Belgium

This was a wonderful experience to be part of this great conference. It is a very successful initiative to bring in scholars from across the world to discuss on Vedic studies. kudos to the organizers.

Amitava Banik

Thanks to all for a wonderful experience, again. WAVES is so inspiring with all the knowledge and ideas, but most special because of all the very kind and encouraging people.

Prof. N.K. Komerath, Kerala

The whole conference went on in a splendid manner. Congratulations to the organisation.

Prof.A.R Tripathi, Lucknow

The conference organised in wonderful way. Great Conference and we gained wonderful experience by it due to efforts of whole team of WAVES. Congratulations to the team of WAVES for great success.

Dr. Kartar Sharma, Srinagar

Thank you so much for such a wonderful session. Congratulations to all the organisers.

Dr. Tanuja Rawal, Delhi

This conference give new dimensions to expand the tsunami of joy, bliss and knowledge to humanity for sustainable humane transformation.

Dr. Chand Bhardwaj, Delhi

Excellent conference

-Prof. Sunita Sengupta, Delhi

Such a Very good Conference. Congratulations

Dr. Karuna Arya, Delhi

Many-many congratulations for organising such a great international conference. Many thanks to organising team for this wonderful Conference.

Prof. Anju Seth, Delhi

I could listen to Professor Kazanas, Professor Bal Ram Singh ji, Professor Varkhedi, most revered guruji, Prof. Shashi Tiwariji madam, Shashi Kejriwal ji sir, dear Dr. Aparna ji through WAVES only. A brilliant start indeed! Big thanks to all of you, the WAVES family. A great experience indeed being part of the WAVES International and India Conference.

Prof. Soma Basu, Kolkata

The program was well organised and talks are relevant to the present society what our ancestors have mentioned in the scriptures. This organisation and we should all try to protect our culture by associating with government and private agencies.

Prof. D Pramod, Hyderabad

The recently concluded WAVES conference was very well organised and compared to last year, every speaker got at least 15 minutes to present his paper. The topic or central theme of innovative ideas on implementation of Vedic knowledge in modern day life was very inspiring and every paper must have contributed to compilation of ideas in this direction.

Prof. Ghare, Bangalore

Nature & Purpose

World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES) is a multidisciplinary academic society. It is a forum for all scholarly activities and views on any area of Vedic Studies variously called Indian Studies, South Asian Studies or Indology.

WAVES is not confined to study related to Vedas alone or to India alone. It encompasses all that applies to traditions commonly called Vedic, past, present and future, anywhere in the world.
It is universally acknowledged that Vedas are among the oldest existing records of human thoughts. Vedic traditions have continued without interruption for many millennium of years and remain a living and formative source of Hindu culture and tradition.