Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri (Director, IGRMS) inaugurated a workshop - ‘Sitting at the Yard: Conversation with North-East Diasporas in Bhopal’ - conducted by Rathin Barman, IFA-IGRMS Archival and Museum Fellowship organised by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal in collaboration with India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore.
This project received support from India Foundation for the Arts under the Archival and Museum Fellowships initiative, with support from Tata Trusts.
Chairing the inaugural session, Prof Chaudhuri said words like Non-resident or Diaspora exhibits a difference from our original homeland and place we are living in.
Meanwhile, Hindi fortnight observation commenced in the Sangrahalaya from September 1. The Hindi fortnight at IGRMS has been inaugurated by Prof Ramdev Bharadwaj (Vice Chancellor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal) in the inaugural session.
Prof Bharadwaj said, “We celebrate various days and fortnights. Hindi too has become part of it, which wasn’t the case earlier. I believe languages have their own pride and lifestyle, it connects man to society and society to nation.”
On this occasion Prof Chaudhuri said, “It’s a matter of good luck that we understand and speak Hindi. like culture cannot be explained similarly we are nothing without our language Hindi. IGRMS is playing a key role in implementation of official language Hindi through various activities.”
The programme was coordinated by Official language Officer Sudhir Shrivastava.
The Sangrahalaya in association with EKTARA (Children literature and art centre of Takshila) is organizing a workshop ‘Pluto writers’ workshop for early readers’ from September 2 to 6, 2017 at Rock Art Conference Hall. The inauguration is on Saturday at 10.30 am.