Workshop on Cultural Legacy and Heritage Management

[Guest guest]

I got opportunity to attend two days workshop on " Cultural Legacy

and Heritage Management " on 11 & 12 th march 2006 at Tilak

Maharashtra Vidyapitha at Pune .

 

Numerous participants from various fields including Indology ,

Hospitality , Management and different had attended this workshop .

 

The Inaugaration was made by Dr M.K.Dhawalikar , Well known scholar

in Archaelogy , Numismatics , prehistory and indology and Mr Jayant

Tilak trustee of TMV .

 

In the keynote address Dr Dhawalikar express that , Heritage

management is new sub discipline of management studies . There was

not awareness about managing the heritage till the first half of

20th century. But after World war-II there wa large scale

destruction of ancient monuments and other cultural properties in

Europe , and therefore the preservation of historical buildings and

ancient sites was taken up by several European governments .

Fortunately we had noe faced any such disaster , so we must adopt

some good things from these nations .

 

The great emperor As'oka can be truely said to be the first

dedicated Archaeologist for he is known to have very carefully

excavated Buddha's ashes which were buried under the stupas that

were erected after the nirvana of the Enlightened one . in fact at

sanchi there is a reprentation of As'oka excavating the ramagrama

Stupa which was protected by the Nagas .

 

Dr Dhawalikar also emphasized on different issues like Present

Government policy of " Conservation " ( or Keeping as it is) and

Western Policy of " Restoration " ( Restoring the damages etc) . He

also discussed Role of Museums , Legislation and Smuggling of

Antiquities ( The recent mishap at Pitalkhora where few antiquities

were removed with the help of guard) .

 

There is need of documenttaion of antiquities which help in future

for example we could bring back Sivapuram bronze by establishing our

ownership , but there are cases where we could not do so and have

lost cases .Treasure trove act covers accidental discovery of coin

hoards and jewellery etc.

 

The Other Topics those were included in the worshop :

 

1) World Heritage Movement + Scope and Significance of Cultural

Heritage by Dr Shubhangana Atre of Dept of Indology , TMV .

2) Guidelines to lay art enthusiast - to understand a monument and

to understand art objects by Dr G.B. Degrulkar , Well known for his

works on Temples of maharashtra .

3)Manuscript in India & Conservation of Manuscripts by Mr Shreenand

Bapat of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute ( BORI) . Pune

4) World Heritage Monuments in India by Ms Manjiri Bhalerao of Dept

of Indology , TMV .

5) Aestetics , A special talk by Prof Vijay Karekar of S.P.college ,

Pune

6) Traditions of Art History and Art historian in India + Agencies

involved in conservation and public education of heritage awaremess

+ Heritage management as profession by Dr Shubhangana Atre of Dept

of Indology , TMV .

7) Heritage Management - Present status and call of the Future : "

Naik Wada " by Stayasheel Naik ( This was about the effort he had

taken to keep as it is the building built by their ancestors )

8) Saving Pune's Heritage - Mr Shyam Dhawale ( About restoration of

Vishram Baug Wada in Pune )

9) Also an interactive session " The Art enthusuiast You and Me ! "

was taken Ms Manjiri Bhalerao & Dr Shubhangana Atre of Dept of

Indology , TMV .

10) Valadictory speech was given by Scholar from Deccan College

Pune .

 

Overall it was very good experience and i like to thank to Ms

Manjiri Bhalerao & Dr Shubhangana Atre & all those made their

effort making this workshop sucessful .

 

Thanks and regards

Amol N. Bankar ,

Pune

 

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Thought of the day :

 

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice."

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"

"There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and

use, would

make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could

become."

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of

throwing it

at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

- From teachings of Buddha