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City to host religious meet

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The global meet is
a prelude to the Parliament of the World’s Religions

Thiruvananthapuram: Three thousand delegates from all over the country and abroad wll participate in a pre- Parliament meet here on August 3, as a prelude to the Parliament of the World’s Religions to be held at Melbourne, Australia, from December 3 to 9.

Director of the School of Bhagawad Gita Swamy Sandeep Chaitanya and Parliament linkperson Ambili Ramnath told a press meet here on Monday that the event would include discussions on four topics, namely religion, Gandhiji, politics and aesthetics. They said the objective of the pre-Parliament meet was to enable social progress by integrating the universal power with aesthetics and technology.

US-based academic Rodney Moag will be among the speakers. The visually-impaired professor who also teaches Malayalam will be honoured with the ‘Beacon of Inspiration’ award.

Swamy Chaitanya said the School of Bhagwad Gita would organise an essay contest for school and college students as part of the Melbourne meet, the theme of which would be ‘Make a world of difference: Hearing each other, Healing the Earth.’ The winners will travel to Melbourne to participate in the meet

Asked about the controversy over the textbook for Class VII in Kerala, the Swamy said he had found nothing objectionable in the book. He said the burning of textbooks by a section of people was unjustifiable.

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