A Lifetime in Architecture with Padma Bhushan B.V. Doshi.
On 30th October 2021, New Acropolis Culture Circle hosted Padma Bhushan Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, sharing his life experiences in a talk titled A Lifetime of Architecture. Charting out his early years of learning and practice in [...]
Work with Nature – Planting Sessions
On 24th October 2021, New Acropolis Main Centre organised yet another follow-up to the ongoing ‘Work with Nature’ session at the BMC Rock Garden, Napeansea Road (Shantivan). Working in groups, volunteers worked on two major activities. [...]
Awaken your Imagination
On 23rd Oct 2021, New Acropolis Pune Branch hosted an online talk Awaken your Muse: Learning to Imagine. The speakers investigated the subject of imagination as a tool we can develop in order to create [...]
Work with nature- Composting Session
On 10th October 2021, New Acropolis Colaba organized a follow up to the first Work with Nature session (held on 26 Sept)at the BMC Rock Garden, Nepeansea Road (Shantivan). Volunteers attended to the 4 compost [...]
Seeking Happiness !
The search for Happiness has been a fundamental human search across geography and time. However the search for a sustainable form of happiness, beyond our psychological, and emotional plains which are constantly changing, has remained [...]
Volunteering with a Composting Activity at Shantivan Garden
On 26th September 2021, New Acropolis Main Centre organized a session titled Work with Nature at the BMC Rock Garden, Napeansea Road (Shantivan). To facilitate a more eco friendly waste management, 27 volunteers put [...]
The Pursuit of Truth, The Socratic Way
On 25 September 2021 New Acropolis Main Centre hosted an online talk titled Socrates : A Life of Truth and Courage. The talk focused around the life story of Greek Philosopher Socrates, and how his [...]
Musical Evening with Rasika Shekar
On 18th September 2021, New Acropolis Culture Circle hosted an online event An Evening of Music with classical singer and flautist, Rasika Shekar. Rasika impressed the audience with her versatility, performing a mix of classical [...]
Education for Transformation with Prof T.S. Powdyel
On August 28th 2021, New Acropolis Culture Circle hosted an event with Prof. Thakur S. Powdyel, the former Education Minister of Bhutan, who spoke on Education, The Noble Sector. Through the talk he shared the [...]
Daring to Choose
How do we make truly meaningful choices? Many of us face situations in our life where we need to make a choice. On 25th August’21, New Acropolis Pune Branch hosted an online interactive talk titled [...]
Diamond Path to Transforming the Heart
The Diamond, is a very precious gem, not only in terms of value, but also as a metaphor to the magic hidden in its symbolism. To explore this, New Acropolis Main Centre hosted an online [...]
Exploring Karma, Destiny & Free Will
On 14th August 2021, New Acropolis Pune Branch hosted an online interactive talk titled Karma, Destiny & Free Will followed by a Q&A session. The speaker investigated each of these concepts and used real life examples [...]
New Acropolis Organises Blood Donation Drive
To support the acute shortage of blood in our city’s blood banks due to the ongoing pandemic, New Acropolis’ Volunteer Aid Team organised a blood donation camp at the Main Centre in Colaba on [...]
A Meaningful Life – The Stoic Way
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One" - Marcus Aurelius All of us inherently want to be good and happy, but how can we strive towards this and make [...]
Volunteering with an Immunity Kit Distribution Drive
On 30th July 2021, volunteers of New Acropolis Main Centre distributed 120 immunity kits to families residing in the neighbouring Geeta Nagar Slum community. Volunteers organised awareness briefings, explaining the importance of maintaining one's [...]
Exploring the Yoga Sutras with Raghu Ananthanarayanan
On 24th July 2021 The New Acropolis Culture Circle hosted an online talk on the Yoga Sutras of sage Patanjali by Raghu Ananthanarayanan. He clarified how yoga, often misinterpreted in modern times, is much beyond [...]
Making the Mind our Best Friend
On 13 July 2021, New Acropolis Main Centre hosted a talk titled The Mind our Best Friend or Worst Enemy ? The panelists shared how our mind often creates obstacles that we struggle to overcome [...]
Talk on Turning Intention into Action
On Saturday 10th July 2021, New Acropolis Main Centre conducted an online session titled Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve… Turning Intention into Action. The talk explored the gap between transforming our intentions into actions and explored how [...]
Lessons from the Myth of Hercules
On 3rd July 2021, New Acropolis Pune Branch hosted an online interactive talk titled The Hercules within Me. The speaker explored the journey of the Greek mythical hero Hercules who courageously surpassed various trials that [...]
New Acropolis recognised for its Plateful of Love Initiative.
SuRc, a clothing brand promoting zero wastage garment manufacturing , recently planted 1000 saplings to celebrate World Environment Day, in the name of Covid Warriors as a gesture of gratitude for making a difference to [...]
Finding our Purpose through Plato’s Timeless Classic
On Saturday 26th June 2021, New Acropolis Main Centre conducted a talk titled The Search for Purpose: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The speaker shared how the allegory symbolically represents our enchainment to the world [...]
In Conversation with Author Bhavna Roy on Dharma
On 19th June 2021, New Acropolis main centre organized an intimate discussion on Dharma the newly released book co - authored by Bhavna Roy. Bhavna is an avid storyteller, author and member of New Acropolis. She [...]
Inner Path Towards Clarity
On 12th Jun’21, New Acropolis Pune Branch organised an interactive online talk on The Art of Inner Development Based on the teachings of the eight-fold path of Buddhism, the speakers suggested that applying those teachings [...]
Renaissance: Here and Now!
On 5th June 2021, New Acropolis Pune Branch organised an online event titled Revival of the Renaissance. The talk took inspiration from the Renaissance movement that originated in Europe between 14th and 16th century. [...]
The Way of the Inner Warrior
On 11th March ’23, New Acropolis Pune hosted a talk titled ‘Art of Inner Development: Lessons from Bushido’ Extracting lessons for daily life from the ‘Samurai’, the warrior class from medieval Japan, the speaker highlighted [...]
An Ancient Philosophy for a Happy Life
Can an ancient philosophy teach us how to deal with a modern life? New Acropolis, Main Centre at Colaba hosted a talk titled "A Stoic Guide to Happiness : A Glimpse into Living Philosophy" on [...]
Inspiration from Sacred Architecture
Is there more to life than meets the eye ? New Acropolis Main Centre at Colaba held a public lecture on 11th February 2023 titled "Principles of Life through Sacred Architecture”. Architecture in Egypt has [...]
Living Authentically, the Socratic way
''The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates On Saturday 11th February 2023, New Acropolis Pune Branch hosted an interactive talk titled “Dare to be Authentic: Lessons from Socrates”. The speaker used anecdotes from [...]
Growing From Our Mistakes -The Heroic Way
“Can I build myself to not repeat my mistakes, but to learn from them?" This was a question explored in the talk 'The Joy of Making Mistakes: Through Storytelling', hosted by New Acropolis Pune Branch [...]
Life Lessons from Great Warriors
Can we learn some lessons from great warriors besides what we are usually taught in history class? New Acropolis, Colaba, hosted an interactive session on 21st January, 2023 titled Developing Inner Strength: Lessons from Great [...]
Being Present, Through the Art of Origami
The word Origami, from the Japanese ‘oru’ – to fold, and ‘kami’ – paper, denotes the art of folding paper to make beautiful creations. This craft promotes the ability to concentrate and to be [...]
New Acropolis India South celebrated 14 Years
14 Years of invoking love of wisdom among Bangaloreans.... New Acropolis with the pillars of Philosophy, Culture & Volunteering is working towards making a difference in the community. We celebrated our Anniversary on 7th Jan [...]
Striving to Live Authentically
Plato’s Allegory of the cave, though written more than two thousand years ago has continued to fascinate generations of Philosophers searching for wisdom through his writings. New Acropolis Main Centre, hosted an interactive talk titled [...]
Extracting Life lessons from Nature
Do we see ourselves as a part of Nature? If everything in Nature has a purpose, what is our purpose in life? These questions and more were part of the interactive talk organised by [...]
Being the Change
Many of us have good intentions to change the world for the better, but how do we translate our intentions into action? In a talk titled ‘Everyday Volunteer for a Better World’ held at New [...]
Living Philosophy Course Graduation Celebrations
New Acropolis Mumbai Branch celebrated yet another batch of students graduating from its flagship Living Philosophy Course. The 20 week course, provided participants an opportunity to know themselves better, compare insights from various philosophers [...]