Prof. In-Charge
INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION
About The Centre
Visva-Bharati, the University of Rabindranath Tagore is well known as the Centre of dissipating the idea of oneness to the whole world. Keeping in tune with this idea, Indira Gandhi Centre for National Integration (IGCNI) is built up on 5th December, 1985, at Visva-Bharati. It is believed here that irrespective of caste, class or nation, everybody will enjoy the same hospitality and communion between people will always be class less.
The Major activities of the Centre are studies and research, dissemination and propagation of the themes integration, training of teachers, youth leaders, administrators and others in regard to integration, collaboration with other national and international bodies and institutions whose activities are conducive to the promotion of theme of unity and brotherhood.
Vision – To understand, visualize the integration and propagate the feelings of it.
Mission – To disseminate the idea of integration through research and publications, seminars, workshops and cultural programmes.
Contact: dir.igc@visva-bharati.ac.in
Indira Gandhi Centre for National Integration : Cultural Activities
Beside its academic programmes, Indira Gandhi Centre regularly organizes the International Mother Language Day on 21st February each year in collaboration with Foreign Students’ Assistance Cell (housed in the IGCNI office) and Bangladesh Bhavana.
Seminar/Conferances
Seminar (09.12.2023 – 10.12.2023)
The Indira Gandhi Centre, Visva-Bharati organized a two-day International Seminar on “National Integration and Culture” at Indira Gandhi Centre, in collaboration with Khoai Sahitya Sanskriti Samiti, Santiniketan.
Participants and the programmes
Over 100 participants attended the seminar, including poets, academicians, and cultural dignitaries from different parts of India and abroad (Bangladesh, Bahrain). Eminent scholars from Visva-Bharati delivered lectures in the seminar covering the topics such as –
- Cultural Pluralism and National Integration.
- Boul folk song and Rabindranath.
- Sufism and Cultural coalescence.
- Culture and Integration: An Anthropological Approach.
- National Anthem: Source of Inspiration.
There were cultural programs staged on both the days after academic discourses.
. Seminars/Conferences:
- Tribal Movements in India, Language, Culture and Ecology (01.11.2010 to 02.11.2010).
- Community Service: Tagore and Gandhi (11.12.2010 to 12.12.2010).
- Domestic Violence: Social and Legal Issues (27.03.2011 to 28.03.2011).
- “Jana Gana Mana” Satabarser Aloy (21.12.2012) (Collaborated with Department of Bengali and Sangit Bhavana, Visva-Bharati).
- Jagadish Chadra, Rabindranath, Prafulla Chandra and National integration (25.11.2012 to 27.11.2012) (Collaborated with Department Botany and Sangit Bhavana, Visva-Bharati).
- Evolution of Modern Bengali Songs (02.11.2012) (Collaborated with Sangit Bhavana).
- Position of Women in Hindu Texts (08.03.2012) (Collaborated with Women’s Studies Centre and Hindi Bhavana, Visva-Bharati).
- Swami Vivekananda and 21st Century (11.03.2013) (Collaborated with Ramkrishna Mission, Bolpur and Ramkrishna Mission, Kolkata).
- Media Ethics: Reality (15.03.2013 to 16.03.2013) (Collaborated with Centre for Journalism and Mass Communication, Visva-Bharati).
- Social-Cultural Integrity of Bharat (31.08.2013) (Collaborated with Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan, New Delhi).
- Ilmnama: Many Stories of Islam (02.02.2019) (Collaborated with Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata).
- Telegu Bhakti Literature and it’s Influence on other Bhakti Literature of Tamilians. (03.03.2019) (Collaborated with Department of Hindi, Osmania University, Hyderabad).
- Influence of Tara Sankar Bandopadhya on Rabindranath (05.06.2019) (Collaborated with Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India).
- Experiences of Bengal Rural art practices at the Museums of London (04.08.2019) (Collaborated with Department of Bengali and Sangit Bhavana, Visva-Bharati).
- National Education Policy – A Panel Discussion (09.09.2019) (Collaborated with Department of Mathematics, Visva-Bharati).
- Rabindranath, Surendranath and their deliberations on Mahabharata (11.12.2019) (Collaborated with Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University, Kolkata).
- Perspectives on Rabindranath Tagore and Cross Cultural Communication. 2019 (Collaborated with CMELLCS, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati).
- National Integration and Culture (09.12.2023 to 10.12.2023) (Collaboration with Khoai Sahitya Sanskriti Samiti, Santiniketan).
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