🎥 St. Chavara Lecture Series 2024
📚 Topic: "Education as a Catalyst for Social Transformation - St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara: The Model of Sustainable Development"
🎤 Renowned Speaker: Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Acclaimed Author, Speaker & Former Diplomat
The Chavara Cultural Centre, Delhi, successfully hosted the St. Chavara Lecture Series, celebrating the transformative vision of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara. Dr. Shashi Tharoor delivered a thought-provoking lecture on how education serves as a powerful tool for social change and sustainable development, drawing inspiration from the visionary saint's remarkable legacy.
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, 18th December 2024
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM onwards
📍 Venue: Sri Sathya Sai International Centre Auditorium, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
(Nearest Metro Station: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium)
The event celebrated diversity, inclusion, and the universal vision of St. Chavara. It was an insightful and enriching session by one of India’s most distinguished orators and thinkers.
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Chavara Cultural Centre Delhi is a Centre to promote peace and harmony in society through inter-religious dialogue and art and cultural interactions. We celebrate every year all religious and cultural festivals of our nation such as Diwali, the Month of Ramayana, Christmas, Eid-ul -Fitr, Easter, Guru Nanak Jayanti etc. with people irrespective of religion and politics to promote social integration of our nation.
St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara taught children to respect everyone and consider others as brothers and sisters. St. Chavara considered humanity as one family, all human beings as children of God. He always stood firm for the universal brotherhood. India is the land of diversity. The phrase Unity in Diversity is the soul of Indian Culture. The social, cultural, artistic, religious, linguistic, ethnic and culinary diversities of our nation are unique and unparalleled. The perennial spirit of Indian heritage is very clearly enshrined in the following words of Rigveda, "Let noble thoughts come to us from every side’’- (Aa no bhadra krutavo yantu vishwato) Rigveda,1-89-1. Swami Vivekananda proclaimed openness and respect for all religions to be the fruit of the genius of India. India is the land of religious pluralism. In this country of Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Jews, Zoroastrians, Baha'i the best way to foster harmony and peace is to celebrate all religious and cultural festivals including artistic excellence together with the members of other religions and thus create a new culture of mutual respect and acceptance.
Basics to the Catholic position on inter-religious dialogue are the teachings of the Vatican II in its document on the Church’s relationship with other religions “ Nostra Aetate” , Let Christians, prudently and lovingly, through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions and in witness of Christian faith and life, acknowledge, preserve and promote the spiritual and moral goals found among these men, as well as the values in their society and culture” (NA.2) Peace and Harmony through artistic and cultural interactions. Mastering any art form is a prayer, sadana and a sanyasa. A true artist endures great agony to sacrifice the self and unite with the art. When art and the artist become one, it gives birth to a divine purity and all who witness this union is purified in the process. Seeing art being performed purifies the mind and flourishes the element of goodness within the individuals and the society.
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