Book Introduction : 'On the Mission of Human Evolution : Indian Culture Challenges & Potentialities'
Just finished the first chapter ‘Bird’s Eye-View’ of a book which I received two days back. Writing this introduction about the book based on the first chapter ‘Bird’s Eye-View’ On the Mission of Human Evolution Indian Culture Challenges & Potentialities Written By Ma. Nivedita Bhide of Vivekanada Kendra, Kanyakumari Since 1999, Vivekananda Kendra has been conducting a 4-week residential camp-Aacharya Prashikshan Shibir-at Kanyakumari for the teachers of Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya-s serving in Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, the Andamans and Bengaluru. Among various academic and co-curricular topics, a series of lectures on Indian Culture has been an essential part of these Shibir-s. These sessions often proved an eye-opener for many questions such as "In India are there many cultures or one culture?" "What is common between say a person from Arunachal Pradesh and a person from Karnataka as language, way of wearing clothes, names of