8th Dr. Minati Hazarika Memorial Annual Lecture, 2025
The Vivekananda Kendra Institute of Culture (VKIC), Guwahati, in association with the Shiva Pragya Initiative, is pleased to announce the 8th Dr. Minati Hazarika Memorial Annual Lecture, 2025. The annual lecture series is one of VKIC’s significant intellectual platforms that promotes reflective dialogue on the cultural and philosophical heritage of Northeast India.
Community Participatory Seminar on Traditional Systems of Rabha Community Change and Continuity
Traditional Culture: Basis for Sustainable Development
The 1944 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Insidor Isac Rabi recalled how his mother greeted him daily on his return from school with the same question, "Did you ask any good question today"? I submit that I shall consider myself to be more than fortunate if this address leads to one good question at the end.
Caste Tribe Continuum in Indian Society
The different social units in India, including the so-called tribes, used to categorise themselves as 'jati', and most of them termed caste as well as tribe as 'jati'.