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Cultural and Civilisational Digest: June-2024

India’s archaeological site museums need major makeover. Vadnagar must set an example- The Print

There’s a notable rise in innovative museums across India, such as the Museum of Art or MAP, and the recently opened Science Gallery in B....

July 08, 2024 Ayodhya , International Yoga Day , Cultural Heritage , Repatriation , Culture And Civilisation , Vadnagar , Archaeological Site Museums , Archaeological Excavations , Keeladi , Sangam Era , Stonehenge , Nalanda University , Korean Culture and Neolithic age.

Examining the Confluence of Tradition and Modernity in Modern Indian Temples

Anirudh Naveen Article

India as a country is renowned for its diversity, both in terms of geographical habitats and its social composition. This diversity rests on interplay of several factors, including economic, political and social structures that have been nurtured ove....

August 24, 2022 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , Ayodhya , dharma , Tradition , Bharat , shrine , sacred , mandir , Akshardham , Somnath

Janakpur-Jaynagar Railway Line: A New Milestone in Nepal-India Relations

Prof Hari Bansh Jha Commentary

People in Nepal and India were shocked when Nepal’s only Janakpur-Jaynagar Railway that connected Janakpur, the holy city of Nepal with Jaynagar, the border town in Bihar, India was closed almost a decade ago. But those people are in rejoicing mood....

October 07, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Commentary , Ayodhya , COVID-19 , Goddess Sita Janakpur , Jaynagar , Developmental Partnership , religious tourism

Ayodhya Movement and National Polity

On 13th August 2020, Vimarsh was held through a webinar at VIF, on the topic “Ayodhya Movement and National Polity.” This subject was thoroughly reviewed by Shri S Gurumurthy, Economic & Political Analyst and Chairman, VIF. The Ayodhya movement h....

August 21, 2020 Vimarsh , Governance and Political Studies , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Ayodhya , S Gurumurthy , Hindutva , Hinduism , Bhoomi Pujan , Ayodhya Movement , National Polity , paradigm shift , vote bank politics , Archaeological Survey , K M Munshi

OLI TURNS HOLY | A POEM

Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

In Kathmandu at Singh Darbar Oli sat with his close team, He said he would go very far To realise his long cherished dream. To make sure that Nepalis saw That India was a foreign land, He had made up his mind to draw With his own h....

July 25, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Commentary , Nepal , Ayodhya , Oli , Singh Durbar , Lord Ram , Madhesis , Treaty of Sagauli , Kalapani River , Dharmic , Hou Yanqi

Panel discussion on the book, ‘Portraits of Hindutva: From Harappa to Ayodhya’, authored by Shri Rajesh Singh

The discussion traced the evolution of the Hindutva phenomenon since the Vedic period to the present, and recorded the contributions of key great personalities to its growth which led to the proliferation of Hindutva (but not anti-others) sentiments ....

April 26, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Book Discussions , Ayodhya , Hindutva , Portraits of Hindutva , Rajesh Singh

नेपाल: जुड़वां शहर का समझौता और जनकपुर एवं अयोध्या के बीच संपर्क

Prof Hari Bansh Jha

पृष्ठभूमि भारत और नेपाल के लोगों के बीच संबंध अनंत काल से बिना रुके चले आ रहे हैं। दुनिय�....

January 09, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , India , भारत-नेपाल संबंध , जनकपुर-अयोध्या जुड़वां शहर , Nepal , Janakpur , Ayodhya , UP , Hindu

Nepal: Twin City Agreement and Connectivity between Janakpur and Ayodhya

Prof Hari Bansh Jha

Background People to people relations between Nepal and India continue unabated since time immemorial. No other two countries of the world are as much bound together as these countries in social, cultural, religious, economic and ....

December 13, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , India , Nepal , Janakpur , Ayodhya , UP , BJP , Twin City Agreement , Ram Mandir , Sita swayambar , Nitin Gadkari , Ram Janaki Marg , Integrated Development