On Ancient Global Hinduism

[Guest guest]

Sangh Samachar

September 26, 2004

Workshop on worldwide Hindu civilisation and culture

The Baba Saheb Apte birth centenary celebration committee, West

Bengal, organised a workshop on the worldwide Hindu civilisation and

culture in Kolkata, as part of the year-long birth centenary of the

late Baba Saheb Apte. Speaking at the workshop, Thakur Ram Singh, a

veteran Sangh Pracharak and former president of Akhil Bharatiya

Itihas Sankalan Samiti, spoke on the glorious past of Hindus when

Bharat was a vishwaguru and each and every human being on the earth

was a Hindu. "In those days, the kings used to rule the world and

Sanskrit was the only spoken, written and taught language in the

vast stretch of the land extending from the Pacific Ocean in the

east to the mountain ranges of the Andes in the west," he informed.

Thakur Ram Singh also released a book, RSS ki o kena (What is RSS

and what for?) written in Bengali by Ashok Dasgupta. Shri Dasgupta

was felicitated with a coconut by Justice Ranendra Narayan Roy, a

retired judge of Allahabad High Court, and was presented a shawl by

Prof. Arun Kumar Biswas.

 

Presiding over the function, Prof. Biswas appealed to the countrymen

to follow the great ideals of Hindu traditions and dedicate their

lives to nation-building activities so as to restore the

motherland's pristine glory. Dr Balram Chakrabarti, a renowned

scholar in philosophy, explained how the forefathers of Hindus

visited America, crossing the frozen straits and the chilly

woodlands of Alaska to spread knowledge both in the North and South

America. He said that many scholars had come to India from South

America to study the Indian expertise in Ayurveda.