.jpg?fit=crop&w=220&h=132&auto=format)
92NY’s Goldman Center for Children and Family provides an exceptional array of programs designed to support children at every stage of their development.
Sep 25, 2025
The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy joins us for a conversation about India’s central role in shaping modern civilization — and his remarkable, gripping new book of history, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.
Over a millennium and a half, India has created a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the US. In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to shed new light on India’s under-recognized position as a major tentpole of modern civilization. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world — and ours.
Hear Dalrymple as he discusses this major new account of global history — “the most compelling retelling we have had for generations” (Financial Times) — and find out how India continues to shape the world as we know it.
© 2026 The Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association
All Rights Reserved.
All material accessed via the 92NY website (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property of The Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content accessed via 92NY’s website. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of 92NY or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice.
If you are a rights holder and have found your material on our website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), please contact us so that we may obtain and document accurate rights-related information. Upon email request to archive@92ny.org, we will temporarily remove material from public view while we address any rights issue and will honor takedown requests from authors who do not wish to have their work published.
