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DU offers a new course

NEW DELHI: Maestros like Pandit Birju Maharaj and Raghu Rai will interact with students of Delhi University giving them insights into their domains of excellence.

The University in collaboration with SPIC MACAY is offering “Heritage”, a new certificate course on “Appreciating Indian Culture”, with the objective of sensitising the youth towards the various cultural art forms of India.

The course, comprising ten lectures of two hours each, will be spread out from September to December. The lectures will be held at the Viceregal Lodge on the North Campus of the University beginning September 18.

“We want to keep the interest in our culture and heritage alive. The student community should be exposed to various facets of Indian culture. We are also thinking if we can film all the 10 sessions and put the film on the web to make it available to a wider audience. We are hoping we could run a course like this every year,” says Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental.

The five components of the course will be delivered by the following “heritage” gurus: Raghu Rai (photography); Pandit Birju Maharaj (dance); Ustad Asad Ali Khan (instrumental); Anjolie Ila Menon (art); and Dadi Pudumjee (puppetry).

According to course director Kiran Seth of SPIC MACAY, most of the courses run by the University are information-based and have “very little inspiration”.

“Indian culture has a history that goes back several centuries. Educational institutions by and large do not provide sufficient opportunity to the youth for understanding the rich heritage. Through this course, we want to bring in elements that are missing in a young person’s life which are: subtlety, abstraction, inspiration and mystical content,” said Dr. Seth.

“We have got a tremendous response to the course. We have already received 175 entries. Our committee will meet later this week to decide the criteria for scrutinising the applications. A lot of foreign students have shown an interest in the course,” said Ashum Gupta, one of the course coordinators.

The course, with a fee of Rs.300, is open to Delhi University students and only a limited number of seats are available.

Only those students who attend all the ten lectures will qualify for the certificate.

Interested students need to submit their bio-data along with a one-page write-up on why they want to enrol for the course.

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