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.

The Brihadeeswarar Temple of Thanjavur

This is Thanjavur Brihadeeswarar Temple vintage postcard in my collection. 

This Thanjavur Brihadeeswarar Temple vintage postcard used in the year 1910 in France.

The Brahadeewarar temple, called the Big Temple, is dedicated to Lord Siva. It was built by the great Chola King Raja Raja 1 (985 -1012 A.D). it is an outstanding exmple of Chola architecture. 

The Brihadeeswara temple is one of the few great Indian monuments listed in UNESCO's World Heritage list of historical sites and monuments.

The 64. 8 Mt. tall vimanam (tower over the sanctum sanctorum) is testimony to the engineering skill of the Cholas. In keeping with the size of the temple, it has gigantic “Mahalingam” in the shrine, measuring 4 meters in height. A monolithic Nandhi chiseled out of a single rock, measures 5. 94 meters in length, 2.51 metres in breadth and 3.66 meters in height. it is the second largest Nandhi in India. The Nandhi or bull is the vehicle of Lord Siva. Beautiful Chola fresco paintings adorn the inner walls of the Temple. One of the outstanding temples in South India, the Brahadeeshwarar temple is the  Chola dynast’s finest contribution to Dravidian temple architecture. What makes the construction so unique is the variation from the usual temple building style of having a tall gopuram and smaller vimanam. At the Big Temple the vimanam asoars high while the gopuram is smaller. The 64. 8m tall, 14 tier pyramid shaped vimanam raised from a square base is topped by a huge monolithic cupola carved from an 81.3 tonne block of granite. It was raised with the aid of a 6 km long inclined plane. 

The Brihadeeswarar temple is the major center of tourist attraction at Thanjavur. This temple is one of India's most prized architectural sites.The 'Vimana' - or the temple tower - is 216 ft (66 m) high and is among the tallest of its kind in the world. Thanjavur is the ancient capital of the Chola kings. King Rajaraja Chola constructed the Brihadeeswara Temple in 10th century AD and the architect Sama Varma designed it. Thanjavur was the center of learning during 10th to 14th century AD.

The Brihadisvarar temple in Thanjavur, the most important among the hundreds of temples built by the Chola emperors, has reached a milestone: a thousand years of existence. 

More information about Brihadeeswarar Temple is available in wikipedia.org website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanjavur

On 26th September,2010 Tamilnadu State Postal Department issued Postal Stamp issued a postage stamp featuring The Brihadeeswarar temple of Thanjavur to commemmorate the 1000th Year Celebrations of this Great Temple. An Indian monuments listed in UNESCO’s World Heritage list of historical sites and monuments.

On that day Post Master General, Central Region (TN), Tiruchirapalli has issued a set of 3 picture postcards to commemorate millennium celebrations of the Brihadeeswarar temple at Thanjavur. Set of three cards is priced at Rs. 15 (Rs. 5 each). An advertisement for the forthcoming INDIPEX 2011 Exhibition with logo is also placed on all three cards.

In my collection i have these 3 picture postcards issued by Tamilnadu Postal Department. 

Alongwith postal stamp Government also minted 5 rupees commemmorative coin on the occasion of 1000th Year Celebrations of this Great Temple.  In my collection i have a piece of this commemorative coin also.

This is Brihadeeswarar Temple photo from a vintage book on Indian Heritage and Culture in my collection.

This is Thanjavur Temple with Nandi special cover in my collection. This special cover issued on the occasion of TANAPEX'78 (Philateic exhibition) on 6th February, 1978.

This is Thanjavur Art Plate special cover in my collection. This special cover issued on the occasion of TANAPEX'75 (Philateic exhibition) on 6th September, 1975.

 This is Goddess Saraswati Maatha statue of Brihadesswarar Temple postcard issued by Archaeological Survey of India is in my collection.

Toda Tribe Maxim Card

This is "Toda Tribal Couple" Maxim Card in my collection.

Toda Tribe are a small pastoral community lived lived on the isolated Nilgiri Plateau of Southern India. Information about Toda Tribal peole is available on wikipedia.org website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_people

This "Toda Tribal Couple" Maxim card is cancelled on the photo of a Toda Tribal Couple with Toda stamp issued by Indian Postal Department on 30th May, 1981.

Dandami Maria Tribe Maxim Card

This is "A Group of Dandami Maria Tribe" Maxim Card in my collection. 

Dandami Maria is one of the tribal group of India with their unique Heritage.

This Dandami Maria postage stamp issued by Indian Postal department on 30th May, 1981.

This Dandami Maria tribe maxim card cancelled with Dandami Maria postage stamp on the photo of "Group of Dandami Maria" Tribal people.

Lord Bhairab (Bhairava Swamy) Philatelic cover from Nepal

This is Lord Bhairab (Lord Bhairava Swamy) Philateic cover from Nepal issued by Nepal Philatelic Administration in the year 1971 is in my collection.

Haridwar vintage postcards

These are 5 different Haridwar vintage postcards in my collection.

In an earlier message in January month  i am sharing another post with some other Haridwar vintage postcards in my collection. Below is the link for this earlier message of Haridwar vintage postcards in my collection.

http://indian-heritage-and-culture.blogspot.in/2013/01/haridwar-vintage-post-cards.html

The Cow Temple Benares vintage postcard

This is The Cow Temple Benares vintage postcard in my collection.

Benares(Varanasi) is one of the India's famous Pilgrimage place to Hindus. Hindu people consider to visit Holy Varanasi(Benares) at least once in their life time. In Benareas there will be many ancient temples (Kashi Vishwanadha temple & many other nearly 500 temples across Benares) and also Sacred Bathing Ghats across the Ganges(Ganga) river in Varanasi.