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JNU’s Jubilee: 50-Years’ Celebrations To Include ‘Vedic Workshops’ And ‘Indic Documentaries’ Among Other Events
JNU campus, Delhi.
Jawaharlal Nehru University will celebrate its 50-year completion by hosting year-long celebrations around the theme ‘Unity in Diversity’, reports Indian Express
The Golden Jubilee celebrations will include a ‘Vedic workshop on Ancient Scripts’ and a documentary that will detail ‘Indian traditions and culture’.
The university website said,“To commemorate the Golden Jubilee year in 2019, JNU is planning to hold celebrations on ‘Unity in Diversity’ throughout the year, with the aim of showcasing our achievements through outreach programmes, academic lectures and expositions, cultural celebrations and exhibitions, sports activities and competitions, as well as events highlighting our international collaborations.”
The year-long celebrations will start in January with the Youth Day. February will see an exhibition on Rabindranath Tagore, March a jazz music fest, a Ramlila exhibition in April, an Odissi dance workshop and theatre production in August, among other events.
Rector II Satish Chandra Garkoti stated in the press interaction on 7 January that the plan included inviting visiting Nobel Laureates to deliver lectures as part of the celebrations.
Rector I Chintamani Mahapatra said the details of the celebrations were worked out by another panel.
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