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India’s Soft Power and Heritage: A Gift to the World
Amb Bhaswati Mukherjee Commentary

In the foreign policy context, soft power and heritage have become as important a tool of diplomacy for States as hard power. It promotes inter-cultural dialogue, essential to counter the multiple challenges to the existing world order by non-State ....

July 04, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , India’s soft power , India’s civilisation heritage
Kashmir, Nehru’s Idealism and Article 370
Dr Makkhan Lal Article

Though the State of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) is an integral part of India, Pakistan claims that it is a disputed territory, particularly the Muslim majority Kashmir Valley, while some Kashmiris and the militant groups think that they are an independent....

July 04, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , Article 370 , Kashmir’s accession
Exhibition ‘India and the World’
Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

In view of the completion of 70 years of Indian independence, the National Museum, New Delhi, conceived a project that has finally materialised as a landmark exhibition, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories (inaugurated in May 2018 i....

July 03, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Exhibition , India and the World , New Delhi , India’s pre-modern global contact
Vimasha: Dr. Bibek Deb Roy’s talk on ‘Understanding the Ancient Indian Texts: Puranas and the Bhagavad Gita’

Dr. Bibek Deb Roy, eminent scholar and Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, gave a talk on the Bhagavad Gita. He announced at the outset that he would not deal with the ‘big things’ about the Gita—dharma, karma, tyaga, ....

June 29, 2018 Vimarsh , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Bibek Deb Roy , Bhagavad Gita , Ancient Indian , Puranas , Vedanta tradition , Mahabharata
Yoga and an Indian Framework of Ethics
Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

In September 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the world by surprise when he proposed the adoption of an International Yoga Day (IYD) that will help create a change in lifestyle and consciousness, ....

June 21, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , International Yoga Day , Yoga , Yog
70 वर्ष पश्चात् भारत-रूसी संस्कृतियों के जुड़ावों की ख़ोज
Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

सेंट पीटर्सबर्ग का ऐतिहासिक शहर हाल ही में भारतीय सांस्कृतिक सम्बन्ध परिषद यानी इंडियन काउंस�....

June 08, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , भारत-रूस वार्षिक सम्मलेन , भारत-रूस सम्बन्ध
चीन और जापान के बारे में स्वामी विवेकानंद के विचार
Dr Arpita Mitra

स्वामी विवेकानंद (1863-1902) ने बहुत यात्राएं की थीं। जो व्यक्ति 40 वर्ष भी जीवित नहीं रहा हो, उसके लिए भ�....

May 25, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , स्वामी विवेकानंद , विवेकानंद की चीन यात्रा
Obituary: Pravrajika Atmaprana, Biographer of Sister Nivedita, Passes Away in Delhi
Dr Arpita Mitra Article

Pravrajika Atmaprana, a senior nun of Sri Sarada Math, passed away at the age of 96 on the morning of 13 May at Ramakrishna Sarada Mission, New Delhi. She is widely loved and respected and will be remembered for decades to come for her remarkable ....

May 15, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , Pravrajika Atmaprana , Sister Nivedita’s Biographer , Ramakrishna Sarada Mission
Commentary: Exploring India-Russia cultural linkages at 70
Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

The historic city of Saint Petersburg was recently the venue for the Third Conference of Indologists organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Since 2015, the ICCR has been organizing a series of annual conferences of Indologists....

May 03, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , India-Russia cultural linkages , ICCR , Conference of Indologists , Indo-Russian ties
Commentary: Swami Vivekananda’s Impressions about China and Japan
Dr Arpita Mitra Commentary

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a widely-travelled person. For someone who had not even seen the age of forty, to have travelled so widely in India and other parts of the world was not altogether a chance happening. It was part of the task he was d....

May 02, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , Swami Vivekananda; Vivekananda on China and Japan
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