Since January 2000 BNS is organizing orations in the name of Prof R.M. Varma and Late Prof K.S. Mani (alternate years) to honour these two eminent personalities who were the founder practitioners of Neurosciences in Bangalore and this part of the country.

 

Prof K.S.Mani Orations

YEAR	SPEAKER	TOPIC
2001	Dr. N. Wadia	Perspective of Neurological practice in India
2003	Dr. Krishnamoorthi Srinivas	Evolution of Neurology in India
2005	Dr. K. Radhakrishna	Management of Medically refractory Epilepsy
2007	Dr. Jeffrey Cummings	Dementia approach and management
2009	Dr.H.V.Srinivas	Epilepsy and Society
2011	Dr. B. S. Singhal	Update in the management of MS
2013	Dr. M. Gouriedevi	Emerging concept of pharmacogenomics: Impact on treatment of epilepsy
2015	Dr. S.M. Kathrak	CNS Tuberculosis a global problem
2017	Dr. Satishchandra	Advances in the management of epilepsy AM to PM.
2019	Dr. Pravina Ushakant Shah	Inspiration to action
2021	Dr. Sanieev Thomas	Gender matters in epilepsy
2023	Prof Vivek Lal	Neurophthalmology

 

Prof R.M.Varma orations 

YEAR	SPEAKER	TOPIC
2000	Dr. Sunil Pandya	Medical Ethics in India then and now
2002	Dr. M. Sambasivan
2004	Dr. R. P. Sengupta	Evolution of Cerebrovascular surgery in India is its future at stake
2006	Dr. B. S. Das	An anterior approach to cervical spine – A pursuit.
2008	Dr. D. Rout
2010	Dr. A. K. Banerji	Neurosurgery in India- A tale of agony and ecstasy
2012	Dr. Anil Karapurkar	Endovascular treatment of Aneurysms, AVMS and AVFs.
2014	Dr. A. S. Hegde	Securing aneurysms, past, present and future
2016	Dr. S. K. Shankar	Lessons in the pathogenesis of CNS tuberculosis and drug resistance
2018	Dr. Atul Goel
2020	Dr. Suresh Nair	CP angle tumors
2022	Dr. Basant K Misra	Neurosurgery: Quo Vadis?
2024	Prof Chandrashekhar Deopujariand	Changing face of Neurosurgery