Dr. Kiran Seth will share his thoughts on Indian music, art and culture as a means of connecting with the within, and also about the evolution of the SPIC MACAY (Society for Promotion of Classical Music and Culture Amongst the Youth) movement, which works towards preserving and promoting the heritage of this country.
About Kiran Seth
Dr. Kiran Seth is an academician, a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since 1976. He set up the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) in 1977. SPIC MACAY promotes Indian classical music, classical dance, and other aspects of Indian culture and heritage amongst youth the world over.
He was born on 27th April, 1949. His father, Bhojraj Seth, was a mathematician and the first professor at IIT Kharagpur.
Kiran Seth passed out as one of the toppers of Mechanical Engineering (B. Tech.) from IIT Kharagpur in the year 1970, and did his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He started his professional career working as a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) at Bell Laboratories, New York, in 1974.
In 1976, he gave up his job to return to India to teach and do research work at IIT Delhi, where he has been working ever since. It was at IIT Delhi that he founded SPIC MACAY in 1977.
SPIC MACAY
The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) is a non-profit, voluntary, non-political and participatory youth movement, dedicated to promoting the heritage of classical, folk and community traditions. SPIC MACAY organises lec-dems, intensives, talks, conventions, heritage walks, Gurukul scholarships and other activities. It has a network of over 300 centers in India and 50 abroad. About 7,000 programs are conducted annually.
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