Project ‘Mausam’ is a Ministry of Culture project to be implemented by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi as the nodal coordinating agency with support of Archeological Survey of India and National Museum as associate bodies.

The unique idea of this project to showcase a Transnational Mixed Route (including Natural and Cultural Heritage) on the World Heritage List has been well appreciated during the Project Launch by India at the 38th World Heritage Session at Doha, Qatar on 20th June, 2014. The Director General UNESCO appreciated India’s initiative in launching this unique project and ambassadors of several countries including China, UAE, Qatar, Iran, Myanmar, and Vietnam expressed great interest in this multifaceted cultural project.

3/18/2014 12:00:00 AM: "As a country, our roots are deeply embedded in the philosophy of liberalism. Liberal values define India’s ideals, and we at the Congress party are proud to be some of the most passionate advocates for them. We are fully committed to democratic principles of transparency and inclusiveness, unlike many others who simply pay lip service to liberal values that they never intend to uphold.

"My Fellow Citizens,

I address you today for the last time as Prime Minister of India. Ten years ago, when I was entrusted with this responsibility, I entered upon it with diligence as my tool, truth as my beacon and a prayer that I might always do the right thing. Today, as I prepare to lay down office, I am aware that well befpore the final judgement that we all await from the Almighty, there is judgement in the court of public opnion that all electyed officials and govermnets are reuired to submit themselves to. Fellow citizens, each one of us should respect the judgement that you have delivered. The just concluded elections have deepened the foundations of our democratic polity. As I have said on many occasions, my life and tenure in public office are an open book. I have always tried to do my best in serving this great nation of ours. In the last ten years, we as a country have seen many successes and achievements that we should be proud of. Today, India is a far stronger country in every respect than it was a decade ago. I give credit for these successes to all of you. However, there is still vast latent development potential in our country and we must collectively work hard to realize it.

As I leave office, my abiding memory will be the love and kindness that I have always received from you. I owe everything to this country, this great land of ours where I, an underpriviliged child of Partition, was empowered enough to rise and occupy high office. It is both a debt that I will never be able to repay and a decoration that I will always wear with pride.

Friends, I am confident about the future of India. I fimly believe that the emrgence of India as a mayor powerhouse of the evolving global economy is an idea whose time has come. Blending tradition with modernity and unity with diversity, this nation of ours can show the way forward to the world. Serving this nation has been my privilige, There is nothing more that I could ask for.

I wish the incoming government every success as it embarks on its task and pray for even greater successes for our nation".

The Dandi March began on March 12, 1930, and was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. This was the most significant organized challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920–22, and directly followed the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress on January 26, 1930.

The campaign had a significant effect on changing world and British attitude towards Indian independence and caused large numbers of Indians to join the fight for the first time.

Very philosophical is`CAN I BE OF RECEIVE?` In reaching self realisation, one should first withdraw, then concentrate and finally meditate. Vedanta, also known as Uttara Mīmāṃsā, is a Hindu philosophical tradition that is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy. Avula Parthasarathy, popularly known as Swamiji (born 8 June 1927), is an Indian philosopher and exponent of Vedanta, one of the ancient philosophies of India. 

“As president of the Indian National Congress and chairman of the governing coalition, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA*) Sonia Gandhi act at this moment as an influential national and party leader. She fights for the preservation of India as a secular state with a democratic government, as a tolerant society which combines compassion with competence, equity with excellence. She started political reforms concerning the combat of poverty and social discrimination, with a strong feeling of justice as motive and believe in human dignity. In her role as politician, she bridges ethnic, religious and cultural boundery lines in India and she strives after maintenance and advancements of the humanistic and pluralistic heritage of Mahatma Gandhi.”

I recognize many similar political and social ideals. The personal toned lecture of the influential national and party leader strengthens that opinion. The sovereign social secular democratic republic is pluriform, like a thali.  Also resembling  phylosophies of life are present: cherishing values, ethos (practical skills and wisdom, virtue and goodness, goodwill towards the audience) and developing inner person, so that the human beings lives in harmony with other human beings, with Nature and with the rest of creation.

“Living Politics, What India has taught me”:

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who renounced Prime Ministership after 2004 polls, said India has taught her that “politics is not just the art of possible, it can also be the art of the impossible”. ”The plain fact is that power for itself has never held any attraction for me. My aim in politics has always been to do whatever I can in my own way to defend the secular democratic foundation of our country and to address the concerns and aspirations of the many whose voice often remains unheard”

Indeed that voice has been my wisest guide in my political life," she said.  Turning to the issue of faster growth and social equity, it was not a matter of choosing one over the other. "Growth without equity leads to destabilise society while equity without growth simply cannot be sustained."

The Indian National Congress found itself in the midst of uncertainty and turmoil. In 1996, it lost the national elections. Pressure begin to build up across the country urging me to emerge from my seclusion and enter public life.

Describing the 'Incredible India' , it is a land that has given rise to four of the world's major religions. It is home to the world's second largest muslim population. It welcomed christianity long before Europe embraced it. "It offered refuge to people fleeing from religious persecution, whether they be jews or zoroastrians. It is a land comprising different ecological and cultural regions, each with its own distinctive history. India is thus a multi-religional civilisation without parallel”. She said India is a secular country. "For us the term secularism means equal respect for all religions. Our nation is founded on the conviction that all Indians must be free to practise the religion of their choice, to speak and write in their native language to give expression to their own regional ethos and culture".

Finally Gandhi said, the Indian experiment is a glorious example that unity can be also be based on the values of pluralism and multi-culturalism.