The Biology of Beauty

The body already knows. The question is: are we listening?

This conversation around Jinan K.B.’s new book Awakening Beauty begins in an unlikely place: a potter’s courtyard, where a young girl slices a perfect circle from clay without pause or calculation. Jinan spent years watching moments like this: children shaping meaning with their hands, artisans creating with a quiet certainty. He realised that this effortless clarity comes from a kind of intelligence we rarely acknowledge. In this event, he speaks with Prem Chandavarkar about how such intuitive, sensory knowing forms naturally, and how modern education steadily distances us from it through abstraction, rules, and ready-made answers.

Somewhere along the way, we traded perception for explanation and began trusting the mind more than the senses. Awakening Beauty reframes this shift as a deeper civilizational loss: one that leaves us informed but less alive to the world. This conversation makes a compelling…