VKIC Initiative

 

·    Research & Documentation:  The Need  ·    Largely oral traditions ·    Some in danger of becoming extinct ·    Language of Shrutis – needs to be made easily accessible  for cultural continuity ·    Adapting traditional knowledge, skills for continuity    The Impact                                           ·    Creation of awareness and interest ·    Increasing Involvement of youth in documentation  The Work Thus Far  ·    Heritage of Kamakhya on Nilachala Hills ·    The Adis of the Siang Valley ·    Theravadi Buddhist Monasteries ·    The Dimasas of North Cachar Hills ·     The Sattra Institution of Asom ·

·    Seminars Need  •          Largely oral traditions; knowledge often confined to the elderly  •          To be aware of the significance of traditions     •          Westernization in the guise of modernisation  •          Documentation by Missionaries/West-centric Anthropologists often misleading  Impact •          The educated emerging as bridge between the elderly and the youth •          Increasing Involvement of youth •          Adapting traditional knowledge for cultural    continuity •         Writing & interpreting from the practitioners’  perspective  Themes •         Traditional Customs and Rituals of Northeast India •         Traditional Systems – Change and Continuity •         Development through Culture

·    Symposium

·    Samskriti Anveshak - the cultural forum

·    Publications The Need •          Sequel to Seminar, Field Survey & Investigation  •          To spread Bharateeya thought process  •          Clarify Mistranslations  •          Research books often unaffordable for masses  The Impact •           Emerging as authentic reference works •           Validating tradition •           Spreading the practitioners’ perspective •           Finding unifying elements amongst communities •           Price affordable;  demand on the increase Total:   Books    – 16 Compact discs  – 0 2

·    Memorial Lectures ·    1997 - Vedanta in Nuclear Age - Dr Karan Singh·      ·    1999   Culture and Nationalism - Dr N S Rajaram·      ·    2001   India’s Self-Denial - Francois Gautier·      ·    2004  Reading Sankaradeva: Marginality and Indianess  - Shri R N Dev Goswami ·    2006  Living in Harmony - Swami Mitrananda

Guest Lectures Total Lectures by Guest Speakers : 21

·    Celebrations and Felicitations  31st of January VKIC Foundation Day. ·    Award of VKIC SANMAN ·    Awardees thus far - 09·

·    Workshops

·    Indigenous Study Circles   ·    Increasing interest in culture  ·    Validating the cause of Indigenous  Faith & Culture

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