Abhijnanashakuntalam
From 30-10-2001 to 31-10-2001
Under the Annual Feature Kalidasa Parva
Coordinated by Prof. Kamalesh Datt Tripathi and Prof. Yugal Kishor Mishra
Other Scholars Exchanging Views : Padmashree Prof. V. Venkatachalam, Dr. Kapil Dev Pandey, Prof. Shivji Upadhyaya, Prof. Rai Anand Krishna, Dr. Kamla Pandeya, Prof. Krishna Kant Sharma and Prof. R. C. Sharma
The Seminar was followed by the presentation of a small comedy Who is Kalidasa? coordinated by Dr. Bhanu Shankar Mehta and presented by Dr. Meera Gupta
Inter-School Drama Competition
Date 05-12-2000
Guests of Honour : Smt. Rashmi Kumar, Padmabhushan Smt. Girija Devi and Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami
Coordinated by Prof. A. N. Tripathi and Smt. Manju Sundaram
Participating Institutions : Sunbeam School (Bhagwanpur), Tulsi Vidya Niketan and Vasanta School
Antyakshari
Date 16-10-2000
Chief Guest : Dr. Daljeet, Keeper, Painting, National Museum, New Delhi
Chairperson : Prof. Shri Nivas Pandey, Department of Hindi, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Coordinated by Prof. A. N. Tripathi and Smt. Manju Sundaram
Participating Institutions : Sunbeam School (Bhagwanpur), Tulsi Vidya Niketan, Vasanta School and Besant Theosophical Society
Recitation of Hindi Poetry
Date 26-09-2000
The feature Prerana-Pravaha for the young generation was inaugurated by Mrs. Mary Carmen Lyn Chandra of Harvard, USA with this event. Scholars like Prof. Pramod Chandra and Prof. Rai Anand Krishna graced the occasion with their presence.
Coordinated by Prof. A. N. Tripathi and Smt. Manju Sundaram
Participating Institutions : Sunbeam School (Bhagwanpur), Tulsi Vidya Niketan, Vasanta School and Besant Theosophical Society
Shrauta-Yaga 2001
Date 03-01-2001
Shrauta-Yaga Mitravindeshti was coordinated by Prof. Hridaya Ranjan Sharma
Manuscriptology and Palaeography
From 20-12-2000 to 03-01-2001
In collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
Inaugurated by HE Shri Viren J. Shah, Governor, West Bengal
Chaired by Prof. V. Venkatachalam
Guided by Dr. T. N. Dharmadhikari, Shri Satkarni Mukhopadhyaya, Prof. Ratna Basu, Prof. S. R. Sharma, Dr. Vijay Shankar Shukla, Prof. T. P. Verma, Dr. Prakash Pandey, Prof. R. C. Sharma, Dr. R. K. Pandey, Prof. B. N. Bhattacharya and Prof. B. B. Chaubey
No. of Participants: 28
Vedanamapaurusheyata
Date 06-12-2000
Coordinated by Dr. N. P. Joshi, Prof. Shivji Upadhyaya and Dr. Kamal Kant Tripathi
Judged by the eminent Sanskrit scholars Prof. Sita Ram Shastri and Prof. Reva Prasad Dwivedi
In this Sanskrit debate, Shri Navaraj Sharma argued that the Vedas are human composition while Shri Ram Adhikari fought for the superhuman nature of the Vedas.
The Debate between Ashtavakra and Bandi in the court of Janaka as mentioned in the Mahabharata
Date 01-12-1999
Participated by Shri Rajeev Kumar Pandey (Ashtavakra), Dr. Sukumar Chattopadhyaya (Bandi) and Prof. Sita Ram Shastri (Janaka)
Dr. N. P. Joshi and Pt. H. N. Chakravarty acted as Judges
Dr. Pranati Ghosal responded to a number of questions relating to the contents of the debate
The chief characteristic of the event was the rendering of poetic Hindi version of the entire episode by Dr. Kamla Pandeya
Mauryan and Shungan Art
From 13-02-2001 to 26-02-2001
Conducted by Dr. N. P. Joshi, Prof. R. C. Sharma and Dr. T. K. Biswas
No. of Participants: 33
Rajasthani Paintings
From 08-12-2000 to 15-12-2000
Conducted by Dr. Asok Kumar Das (Shantiniketan) and Dr. Shridhar Andhare (Ahmedabad)
Keynote Address delivered by Prof. Pramod Chandra (Harvard, USA)
Valedictory Address delivered by HE Shri Viren J. Shah, Governor, West Bengal
No. of Participants: 19