Kashi Tamil Sangamam is an initiative of the Government of India to take the people of Tamil Nadu on an educational tour to Kashi belonging to 12 different groups including art, literature, spirituality and education.
Kashi Tamil Sangamam is an initiative of the Government of India to take the people of Tamil Nadu on an educational tour to Kashi belonging to 12 different groups including art, literature, spirituality and education.
Governor RN Ravi on Friday said that India, unlike western countries, was not the product of a king or a conquest, but a “civilization and cultural development that took place over thousands of years”.
Addressing the curtain raiser for ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’ held at the IIT-Madras campus in Chennai, Sri Ravi argued, “we have been inspired by Western thinking” about how a nation is made.
“We are so inspired by Western thinking that a nation should be something that a king has conquered and the nation has sovereignty. It is a European concept. India is not the product of a king or a conquest. India There is a civilizational and cultural development that has taken place over thousands of years,” he said. According to Sri Ravi the relationship between Kashi and Tamil Nadu dates back thousands of years. “This notion of India created by foreigners has eclipsed the idea of India . Between Kashi and the people of this land – Tamil Nadu – is thousands of years old. We all know that Lord Rama… how he worshiped Lord Shiva at Rameshwaram… we know the story,” he said.
Kashi Tamil Sangamam is a Government of India initiative, a unique program that will take the people of Tamil Nadu on an educational tour to Kashi from 12 different groups including art, literature, spirituality and education.
About 210 people in each group will be taken from different parts of Tamil Nadu for the eight-day tour itinerary, a press release here said. The first train will leave from Rameswaram on 16th November, 2022 and the last return train from Kashi on 18th December, 2022.
month long tour
In all, 12 such groups, consisting of around 2,500 people, will tour over a month and will leave from Rameswaram, Chennai and Coimbatore. As a part of this tour, he will attend academic sessions, visit places in Varanasi and Ayodhya and nearby places including Ganga Cruise.