Hindi bi-monthly of ICCR ‘Ganganchal’ launched
24/06/2017
Jammu, June 23: Balwant Thakur the Regional Director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India launched the Hindi bi-monthly of ICCR 'Ganganchal' here today at ICCR headquarters in Jammu. Aimed at promoting Hindi globally, 'Ganganchal' features articles on the rich cultural heritage of India and is circulated world over through Indian missions and the cultural centres abroad. Interestingly in the recent times, there is lot of thrust on the promotion of Hindi and lot of foreigners are keenly learning Hindi to know more about Indian history, traditions and culture. ICCR publishes magazines in six world languages which include 'Papeles de la India' (Spanish), 'Rencontre avec L' Inde' (French), 'Thaqafat-ul-Hind' (Arabic) 'Africa Quarterly' (English), Indian Horizons (English) and 'Gaganchal' (Hindi). All such mazzines are will available for the readers in the library of ICCR Jammu which has been exclusively been started for the visiting scholars, students and researchers.
The Jammu Centre of Indian Council for Cultural Relations has the collection of entire ICCR publications. The ICCR has published books on a wide range of subjects, ranging from the arts to philosophy, diplomacy, language and literature. Works of eminent Indian men of letters, statesmen and philosophers like Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Azad, Nehru and Tagore, among others, hold pride of place in ICCR's Publication Programme.
The publication programme is focused particularly on books relating to Indian Culture, Philosophy and Mythology, Music, Dance, Theatre and includes translations of Sanskrit classics in a number of languages including French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Urdu and English, he pointed out.
He said the Indian Council for Cultural Relations has also facilitated the translations of seminal World Literature into Hindi, English and other Indian languages.
He said that the rarest publications which now will be available to scholars in ICCR office of Jammu which includes, 'Glimpses of Sanskrit Literature', 'Contemporary relevance of Sufiism' (Arabic/English), 'Performing Arts in Pala and Dena Periods', 'Indian Poetry Today', 'Readings from India', 'Composite Indian Culture and Urdu Ghazal' (Urdu), 'Vision of India', 'India's Maulana', 'Journey of Legend', 'At home in the World', 'India-US: five decades of Solidarity', 'Women in Manusmiriti', 'Ramayana' (Arabic), 'Zakir Hussain-a teacher who became President', 'Handicrafts of India', 'Munshi Prem Chand London, 2005', 'Namibia-India: five years of Solidarity', 'Striving for Peace' and 'Vayaktitva Nirman Mein Shastriya Sangeet Ki Bhumika'.
The prime mandate of ICCR is to take India to the world and bring world to India and in this process, ICCR sponsors the performances of Indian artists abroad and brings the performances of foreign artists to India.
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