Culture

Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram was to visit one of the departments. Naturally the person in-charge tidied up things and all was kept spick and span. Old and ungainly items were all stacked together in the shed in a corner of the compound.

Ivan Illich was a Croatian-Austrian philosopher, a rebellious priest, and critical of the institutions of modern Western culture.

VKIC’s Foundation Day was celebrated in a solemn way on January 31, 2018. That evening the prestigious VKIC Sanmaan was bestowed on Smt. Gayatri Debi of Agartala, Tripura and Smt. Jonaki Baro of Dhekiajuli, Assam. They were each presented with a citation, a memento, a seleng sador and a cash award.

“There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be nothing on earth superior to him.

Dr. Rita Moni Baishya, Associate Professor of Hindi, Gauhati University delivered the 5th Dr Minati Hazarika Memorial Annual Lecture on December 27, 2017 in VKIC’s W.M. Auditorium. She spoke on ‘Assam’s contribution to the Indian Bhakti Movement.’

A daylong Conference on "FUTURE ENERGY" was held on 1st November’17 in the auditorium of Vivekananda Kendra Institute Culture (VKIC), Uzan Bazar; The Vivekananda Kendra Skill Development Group, one of the Pillars of Kendra, organized this Conference on this theme of Global & National importance, 

Vivekananda Kendra NARDEP is working in the field of development and conservation of Natural resources since last 1986.

T.N. Khoshoo in his unique book “Mahatma Gandhi – An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology” writes “Gandhiji’s entire life and work is an environmental legacy for all humanity. This was not because he wrote a big treatise on the environment, or led a movement to stall a dam or any industry, or clean a river, or whatever. This was because he was a practitioner of sustainable development in the real sense of the word. Here then was a Man who was in harmony and peace with the environment and with himself”. In this issue we have given a few famous quotes of Mahatma Gandhi.