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Featured Essay
Who Knew the Flood Was Coming? : Ancient Deluge Traditions and the Mystery of Advance Warning
Vedic Knowledge; Vedanta; Indology; Flood Myths
Science · Leadership · Philosophy · Cultural Heritage
Dr Anirban Sadhu
Some lives unfold along a single path.
Others move between worlds.
Between the laboratory and the library
Selected Writings
Ideas across disciplines,
held in one conversation.
Essays on science, uncertainty, leadership, Indian civilization, art, memory and the moral imagination.
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Education & Memory
A Treatise on Examination Anxiety, Monastic Civilization, and the Theft of Intellectual Property
A comic and affectionate natural history of examination season in a monastery school—and of the lessons that survived long after the marks were forgotten.
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Civilization & Dharma
The Teenager We Forgot: Why Nachiketa Still Matters
An ancient encounter with death becomes a meditation on courage, attention, and the questions modern life teaches us to avoid.
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Science & Policy
From National Regulator to Global Reference Authority
A proposal for transforming India’s regulatory institutions from participants in the global system into shapers of it.
The New Book
Notes from an
Ancient Future
Collected essays on civilization, memory, art, science and dharma
“There are books that look backward. There are books that look forward. This book looks into the past to ask what the future has forgotten.”
A long conversation with Indian civilization—its stories, scriptures, images, wounds and astonishing acts of imagination—and with the questions that continue to shape the modern world.
Discover the bookA Life Between Worlds
One inquiry.
Many forms.
Anirban Sadhu’s journey has carried him from monastic classrooms to scientific laboratories, from corporate boardrooms to archives of forgotten paintings.
A neuroscientist by training and a global pharmaceutical leader by profession, he writes and speaks at the intersection of evidence, uncertainty, civilizational memory and human meaning. His work is guided by a persistent curiosity: how do knowledge, action and responsibility come together?
Talks & Public Ideas
Probability, proof
and the wisdom of uncertainty.
Keynotes and conversations on drug development, regulatory decision-making, artificial intelligence, leadership and the civilizational resources we bring to an uncertain future.
View talks and videos2026
Reuters Pharma · Barcelona
The architecture of uncertainty in modern drug development
Evidence is never complete. Decisions cannot wait.
Media & Coverage