IFIH’s
Programmes
IFIH is starting work in some of the following areas.
It needs your support and participation to carry out its programmes
successfully. Let us know if you would like to join or sponsor some of the
tasks below.
1. IFIH’s central objective is to have its
Charter implemented. To that end, IFIH is initiating a campaign of
declarations, petitions, and individual letters to India’s President, Prime
Minister, M. P.s, Chief Ministers and State Education Ministers. A press
campaign through articles, well-publicized seminars, sponsored advertisements
will also be attempted.
2. IFIH is starting
work on the publication of a series of popular, well-produced books on every aspect of
India’s heritage. Each book will be 150 to 200 pages, well researched and well
written, yet accessible to the average Indian student or parent. Written in English
first, they will soon be translated into major Indian languages. IFIH is
forming working groups of experts who will prepare such material in the fields
of : India’s Heritage,
Indian Intellectual Texts, Spiritual Curriculum, Integration of Indian Culture into
the existing curriculum, Woman and Family, India’s Archaeological Heritage,
India’s Scientific Heritage, India’s Artistic Heritage, Ayurveda, Folk and
Tribal Heritage, Ecological Heritage, Traditional Knowledge Systems, and India’s
contribution to world civilization.
3. Based on this
material, IFIH will prepare a
complete culture course, for which a national certificate will be issued. The
course can additionally be imparted through correspondence or on the Internet.
IFIH will also seek to create audiovisual material (slides, video cassettes,
CDs, etc.) on specific heritage themes, to be distributed or shown at schools,
colleges and cultural organizations. Exhibitions highlighting India’s heritage
will also be set up and circulated in India. A series of video spots and
quality documentaries will also be prepared.
4. IFIH will support selected students or
young people with scholarships for research or cultural programmes. National or
regional essay competitions on themes of India’s heritage will also be
conducted.
5. IFIH will cooperate with Universities and
other educational institutions, advisory and research bodies. IFIH will also
urge the Government of India to establish in every existing University a
Faculty for Indian Heritage open to Indian and foreign students and designed
for intensive training and research on all facets of classical studies,
including India’s scientific heritage.
6. IFIH seeks tie-ups
with other organizations whose aims are entirely compatible with the Charter
and which are active in cultural, educational or social fields.