My event photographs on my birthday (19th July) with school kids in a school 4 years ago

 These are some of my events photographs on my Birthday (19th July) today which i celebrated with school kids in M.P.P.P. School, J.Thimmuram on 19th July, 2018. Earlier year i.e. on 19th July in the year 2017 also i celebrate my birthday with same school  kids by sharing my heritage collections with them by explaining about Indian Heritage and culture though my collections. School kids enjoyed  my collections with so much fascination and curiosity and some school kids given birthday drawing art to me which drawn by themselves. Indeed  feel it privilege to spend birthday with school kids by sharing  my collections and  explaining about our heritage and  culture through my collections.

Four Years of Blogging

Dear all visitors of my Heritage of India blog, i sincerely and honestly saying a big thank you to the each and every visitor of my Heritage of India blog. This is my fourth year in the blogging. 

In the beginning i am focusing on preparing blogs on several themes by individually. I have 10 different blogs on various themes. But from the last 2 years my focus is completely on this (present) Heritage of India blog because now-a-days in this speedy technological age of India many traditional things of India are gone away. Our many old day performances like Sanke Charmers, Puppet Performers etc. many things which are part of our Incredible Intangible Heritage of India vanished away gradually. Due to this reason from the past 2 years i am focusing only on preserving Indian Heritage and Culture in my own way by collecting vintage postcards (from pre independence period onwards), vintage photographs etc. vintage material relating to the greatness and glory of our Incredible India upto 19th Century, and also collecting books, prints, portfolios(souvenirs/brochures) etc. relating to various aspects of Indian Heritage and Culture i.e. our paintings, our tradtions, our monuments etc.

From the last 2 years i am spending nearly 1 hour every day on taking scans of my collection and reading notes and preparing notes and drafts for blogging those material in my Heritage of India blog and finally sharing them in my Heritage of India blog.

I am glad to inform that right now people from 153 different countries visiting my Heritage of India blog and nearly 100 followers to my blog. I am felt it is a satisfaction to me for my time which i spend regularly for preparing this blog and i am sincerely saying a big thank you to all of you for your valuable encouragement.

Alongwith my collection in my free time i am visiting old temples, fairs, festival events, research institutes etc. of several parts of India and gathering material from those locations about various aspects of our Tangingle and Intangible Cultural Heritage of India.

Apart from sharing my knowledghe and collections through this Heritage of India blog sometimes i am sharing my knowledge on our glorious culture with our younger generation school and college children by giving presentations and seminar to them. So far i gave 3 seminars on Indian Heritage and Culture to our children.   Below i am sharing one photo which is my first presentation in a college.

Further recently i am observing that some bloggers using the material and text as it is from this blog and using them in their blog. They even did not mention about the source from where they are getting these images and information. Even though we are in the Internet age i think it is our primary responsibility to respect other people's knowledge and give credit to them as and when we are using their information. But unfortunately some bloggers do not have such type of courtesy and to my surprise while visiting those people blogs where they are using my original collections and my text in their blogs and they mentioned as "these are in my collection". These things are leaving for their inner heart only. 

From my side i am giving credit to other peoples/organisations as and when i am using their material etc.

Further i am happy to inform that some people using my own collection vintage postcards etc. and published them in their publication by mentioning my name and blog link etc. Even BBC also using my vintage telegram images in their hindi website with my permission.

My Third Seminar on Indian Heritage and Culture

Yesterday in Amalapuram i conducted my Third Seminar on Indian Heritage and Culture.

In Amalapuram there will be one Hanuman Temple in Yarramilli vari Veedhi. The Hanuman Temple authorities established a Trust named "Akondi Simhachalam Trust" and every year they are conducting Hanumad (Hanumath) Vrathams, Poojas and also at the same time in the part of these Hanuman pooja celebrations they are also conducting Samskruti Utsav. During the course of this week long celebrations every year they are performing Pujas, Homam etc. and also being in a part they are encouraging young children by conducting quiz competions, dress competitions, essay writing, drawing competions etc. about our Indian Heritage and Culture. Mr.Akondi Pavan  is organising all these events with the help of his family members and other people. Being Amalapuram is my home town sometimes i went to my native place and during my recent visit 2 months at that time i saw their banner about Samskrit Utsav 2014 celebrations which held in November month ending. After seeing that banner i contacted Mr.Pavan for my participation in these celebrations and i explained about my hobby, my collections relating to Indian Heritage and Culture and also about my previous seminars which i gave to young children. He allotted gave sunday i.e. yesterday 30th November, 2014 full day time for my participation in Samskiriti Utsav. Usually i am giving such presentations and seminars on sundays and weekend evenings only because in the remaining time i have in office.

This is my Third Seminar on Indian Heritage and Culture which i presented to young children. 

In the part of seminar i am displaying my original paintings collections of Madhubani paintings, Kalamkari paintings, Cherial paintings, Cherial Masks, Phad paintings and Midnapore Patachitra paintings in the hall which allotted to me.

There 25 tables provided for my collections. Along with the above original paintings collections i am also sharing 30 different porfolios (souvenirs/brochures) relating to various themes (i.e. monuments, mythology, paintings etc. many themes) of Indian Heritage and Culture.

In the part of seminar i am explaining children about each and every object of my collection which i displayed there. After explaining the children about various aspects of our Indian Heritage and Culture from my collection i am conducting a small test to children by giving questions (fill in the blanks) to them. Children are very curiously watching my collections and clarified their doubts and they are showing very keen interested in participating the test.

These are some photographs which taken yesterday during the course of my interaction with several children by explaining them about our glorious Heritage and Culture.

 

 

My Second Seminar on Indian Heritage and Culture

Recently on 29th June i gave my second seminar on Indian Heritage and Culture at Ravindra Bharathi School's Ashok Nagar Branch, Kakianda.

Ravindra Bharathi School is one of the leading educational institution in Andhra Pradesh by competing many other educatonal institutions of the state with more  60 schools(branches) across the state in various districts. This school started 14 years back in Nellore district. The students of Ravindra Bharathi Schools have participated in many extra curricular activities apart from their studies regularly. One of the important achievement of Ravindra Bharathi Schools students is from the last 5 years they continuously participated in NASA Students Space Science program and got awards for their meritorious presentations in NASA by competing with other schools students. Particularly students of Nellore district Ravindra Bharathi schools students are regularly participating in these NASA Space Programs because India's famous "Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)" is located in Sriharikota of Nellore district and the surrounding area Ravindra Bharathi schools students are getting inspiration from ISRO and regularly creating new satellite and other designs and exhibiting them in NASA. Apart from participating in NASA Students Space programs all Ravindra Bharathi school students of across Andhra Pradesh also participating National Science Olympiad, National Maths Olympiad, Quizes, drawing competitions etc. many competitions, seminars etc.


The website of Ravindra Bharathi School is  www.rbschools.in

Recently the Ashoknagar branch of Ravindra Bharathi school is conducting a week long Cultural Heritage celebrations and seminars to their students from 22nd June to 29th June.During that Cultural Heritage Week students from 6th standard to 10th standards were participating on various events like preparing charts on various themes of Cultural Heritage of India etc. and also writing essays, participating in group discussions etc.

On the last day of Cultural Heritage Week the school management were planning to conclude the week long program by inviting some person as a Chief Guest. At that time they were searching for some person who has some knowledge on various aspects of Indian Heritage and Culture. During their search they approached the History Department Lecturer of P.R.Govt. College about this event and during the course of their meeting the P.R.College History Department Officials gave information about me along with my contact number to Ravindra Bharathi Schools management. Accordingly the management of Ravindra Bharathi School contacted me and requesting to attend their Cultural Heritage Week Concluding Function as a Chief Guest by sharing some information on various aspects of Indian Heritage and Culture by interacting with their students. They requested me to bring to my collections relating to Indian Heritage and Culture to the schoolat the function time for sharing them with their students.

As per the request of the Management of Ravindra Bharathi Schools i went to the school on 29th June by carrying my collections relating to Indian Heritage and Culture. At that time the Management and students were invited me to preside the concluding function as a Chief Guest.

During the function i am interacting with students and gave speech on significance of Cultural Heritage particularly the greatness of Indian Heritage and Culture by showing my collections.

Below are some photos of my interaction with Ravindra Bharathi Schools students during their Cultural Heritage Week closing function. Here i am sharing the photos of students who keenly observed my collections and also my presentation on various aspects of Indian Heritage and Culture. Alongwith the photos of students who attended at there here i am also sharing some photos of my collections which i showed to them. Alongwith the above photos here i am also sharing some charts prepared by schools students during the Cultural Heritage Week which displayed in that room.