International seminar on Gita

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 4. A week-long international seminar on the Bhagavad Gita, jointly organised by the Bharatiya Vichara Kendram and the Gita Swadhyaya Samithi, will be inaugurated here on December 7 by the Madhya Pradesh Governor, Mr. Bhai Mahavir.

Addressing a press meet here today, the director of the Bharatiya Vichara Kendram, Mr. P. Parameswaran, said the seminar will have as its theme, `Bhagavad Gita and Modern Problems'. About 1,500 delegates are expected to take part in the seminar, which will discuss the Gita's application on social, cultural and political problems of the present day. About 40 papers will be presented during the seminar on a wide range of topics related to the central theme.

Those expected to present papers include Prof. Vishnu Narayanan Namboodiri, Mr. C.P. Nair, Ms. Sugathakumari, Mr. K.P.S. Menon and Dr. G. Madhavan Nair. The RSS chief, Mr. K.S. Sudarshan, is also expected to address the seminar. The seminar is being held as part of the Gita awareness campaign inaugurated two years ago by the Union Human Resources Development Minister, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi. A Gita Jayanthi, comprising talks on and readings from the Gita will be organised State-wide during the seminar.

Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi is expected to deliver the valedictory address while the Dalai Lama is scheduled to address a special valedictory meeting of the seminar on December 15.

The seminar will espouse the message of harmony and cooperation central to the Gita as an antidote to the theory of class war and conflict that has inflicted terrible suffering on the people of Kerala for the last few decades, Mr. Parameswaran added.

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