Indian traditional courses website to be launched soon: ICCR
India Today
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations ICCR will soon launch a website catering to online courses around art, architecture, timeless epics, and Vedas.
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations is all set to launch an online course and a portal dedicated to traditional Indian knowledge. The subjects of these online courses would be art, architecture, timeless epics, and Vedas. ICCR President Vinay Sahasrabuddhe said that the portal for these courses will be launched on April 2, 2022.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) plans to hold celebrations under the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav'. He also said that a three-day crafts fair 'Coalescence', will be hosted in the city from February 23-25, wherein artists and craftspeople from 11 states will showcase traditional art forms.
The portal will allow people across the world to register themselves online and enroll for these courses. One can complete a course and switch to another too, the Rajya Sabha member said.
As part of the celebrations, the ICCR will also offer an 'Indian alumni i-card' to those foreign students who have learnt music or musical instruments from 'gurus' in India, and completed their learning, he said.
On the crafts mela, he said, this is perhaps for the first time in the history of ICCR that an event of such a nature has been hosted by it, as "art and culture are essentially depicted in soft diplomacy through music and dance forms".
A senior official of ICCR said Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi is slated to inaugurate the event at Bikaner House. Several diplomats have been invited to the event.
