Indian Memory Museum - A FACT Initiative!

Please have a look:
http://www.fact-india.com/
http://www.factusa.blogspot.com/
http://youtube.com/factindia
http://www.francoisgautier.com/

'But overall,as you know, FACT has an ultimate goal: To build an Indian
Memory museum. No nation can move forward, unless it faces squarely its
past. As His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living
Foundation, pointed out recently, “ the courage to remember, helps us not to
repeat the same mistakes and to build a better future for our children ”. We
have got the land now in Pune, but we need funds to start leveling, fencing
etc.

If you want to help for all these noble endeavours, you can help us raise
funds, as we operate on shoestring budgets. FACT India is a registered Trust
with tax exemption...'

Facing the past squarely is essential for a nation to boldly create its future. The study & the projection of the past in India has been over the last six decades the monopoly of a few 'eminent historians' or distorians who have shaded it through their prisms of isms & ideology, to satisfy some groups & sections. The sad result has been that most of what is taught as history to young impressionable minds is unable to evoke in them a greater & deeper understanding of this land, its heritage, ethos & the struggles & triumphs of its people. A deep pride never develops & a lingering sense of deprecation remains.
A society, people, civilisation does not so much dissolve under external pressures as it does by 'suicide' - the unwillingness to defend, preserve & spread - & the first step towards that process of self-annihilation is the practice of forgetting, negating & denigrating one's past.
The task undertaken by FACT, that of creating an Indian Memory Museum, is a unique one in that sense, one that can indeed go a long way in preserving the distinct Bharatiya identity & its race memory, all nationalists must come forward to support this endeavour!

Take time off & Make an attempt to also visit & Remember:
'An Exhibition on "Sikhs: the defenders of Indian Dharma" will be inaugurated by H H Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Delhi on 22nd January 2008. The exhibition shall be positioned at the Banglasaheb Gurudwara New Delhi and is a collection of paintings and compilation of facts and figures.

The exhibition is a combined effort of SGPC New Delhi and FACT '

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