Events

Initiative for Moral and Cultural Training

Dear Sir/ Madam,

We are pleased to bring to your kind attention that the Initiative for Moral and Cultural Training (IMCT) has been designed and developed for imparting the following values to the students through rituals and symbolism.

Respect and love for parents and elders

Respect for teachers

Respect for girls and reverence for women

Respect for nature and animals as sacred

Respect for tradition.

IMCT is a unique programme to teach values through rituals which serve as visuals aids for students to imbibe our native culture. Rituals are the means to transfer our culture and tradition from one generation to the other. A brief note on 'VALUE BUILDING IS NATION BUILDING' is enclosed herewith. The profundity of IMCT and its inevitable need for the children of this great Nation is explained. Eminent intellectuals in the advisory board and leading educationists as members in organizing committee for the implementation of IMCT programme in schools add immense value to the concept of IMCT.

A two days residential camp is being organized for training school teachers as programmers to conduct value based rituals in their respective schools. We request you to participate in the said camp by sending two or three competent teachers.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

Thangam Meghanathan

Convenor, IMCT

Hindu Spiritual and Service Fair, Chennai, 2009

CHENNAI HOSTED FIRST EVER HISTORIC HINDU SPIRITUAL AND SERVICE FAIR

40 HINDU SERVICE ORGANISATIONS SHOWCASED ACTIVITIES, LITERATURE UNDER ONE ROOF

 Hindu religious and spiritual organisations which have avoided media glare and publicity and silently worked for decades among women, children, youth, villagers, tribals and deprived sections of the society as also natural disaster affected people  came together for the first time in a unique exhibition of their activities and literature in Chennai from February 6 to 8, 2009.

The three-day Hindu Spiritual and Service Fair, organised at the Jaigopal Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Anna Nagar, aimed to provide a platform to exhibit the spiritual and service activities of the different sponsoring and participating institutions to the public, particularly the students and youth and also enabled the followers and members of different organisations to have an overview of what other organisations are doing so as to promote a healthy, harmonious and mutually respectable relations among them. This was the first of many such fairs which will be later held on bigger scale in different parts of the country by the other Chapters of GFCH and the Fair will be extended to spiritual and religious organisations belonging to other faiths such as Islam and Christianity to showcase their contributions to the society.

About 40 leading Hindu organisations including Arya Samaj, AIM for Seva, Brahmakumaris, Art of Living, Chinmaya Mission, Vidya Bharati, Sewa Bharati, Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Patanjali Yoga Peeth, Ramakrishna Math, Ekal Vidyalaya, Vivekananda Kendra, Mata Amritanandamayi Madhom, Oneness University etc participated in the event, noted danseuse Padma Bhushan Dr Padma Subramaniam said. The inaugural function of the Fair was addressed by Swami Abhiramananda of Ramakrishna Math, Swami Dayananda Saraswathi of Hindu Acharya Sabha, Swami Nithyananda Paramahamsa of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam and noted thinker S Gurumurthy. Devotional and cultural programmes including bhajans, chanting of the Bhagavat Geetha, play by students of different school and institutions were also organised during the three-day event