Kiran Seth

Kiran Seth (born 1949) is Ex Professor and Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi who has done teaching and research in the field of Operations Research there since 1976. He is most known as the founder of SPIC MACAY, a non-profit organisation which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, folk forms, yoga and meditation, traditional handlooms and handicrafts, cinema classics, and other aspects of Indian culture, amongst youth over the world; doing about 5000 events yearly in about 500 towns in India and about 50 abroad through conventions, baithaks, lecture demonstrations and musical fests.

In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Early life and education His father, Bhojraj Seth, was a mathematician and the first professor at the IIT Kharagpur, established in 1951, while his mother Bhagawati Seth was a homemaker.

He served as Vice-Chairman of the Governing Council of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune from 2012 to 2014.

SPIC MACAY

Today the movement conducts over five thousand programmes every year that includes concerts, lec-dems, talks, yoga workshops, classic film shows, theatre shows and craft workshops in schools and colleges so that young people might be inspired.