Events & Activities

Events and Activities

The Centre regularly acts as a public forum committed to facilitating multi-disciplinary academic dialogue, aimed at providing a space of intellectual interactions among scholars, experts, students and knowledge seekers from around the world through:

• Acquiring and disseminating Indian knowledge through the organization of academic workshops, seminars, conferences, symposiums, and distinguished lecture series.
• Creating a world-class resource/reference library for India studies.
• Preserving manuscripts.
• Developing a pan-Indian curriculum that can be included in mainstream academics.
• Collaborating amongst scholars and academics of the world.
• Conducting cultural tours for Amrita students.

Manuscript Awareness Campaign

Awareness campaign is conducted periodically, centred on different schools, colleges and villages to educate the younger generation and people about the importance of manuscripts as valuable sources of India’s history and culture, and thus to motivate the younger generation to preserve the ancient treasure. The campaign also helps the Centre to elicit information about manuscript resources of a particular area and aids in acquiring and digitizing rare manuscripts.

Holistic Family Management

The Holistic Family Management program is a fellowship program offered by the Centre in collaboration with Mata Amritanandamayi Math. The six-month program will cater to the lay counselling need. The program focuses on topics such as fundamental aspects of Sanatana Dharma, family counseling skills, yoga with practical, Indian traditional way of living and family system, Indian history, and soft skills training. The graduates are designated as “Lay Counsellor and Life Coach”.