Culture

Culture & Heritage

BIMSTEC Music Festival – First ever; Titled “Saptasur: Seven Nations, one melody”; Jaishankar inaugurated at Bharat Mandapam, Delhi.
International conference on young Buddhist scholars 2025 – Delhi.
Sarnath – Nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List; Buddha's first sermon.
Kakori Train Action – 100 years observed on 9 August 1925- Bismil, Ashfaqullah Rajendra & Raushan hanged; Chandrashekhar Azad escaped.

125th Birth Anniversary – Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Exhibition, stamp, coin release (New Delhi).
Global Manuscript Heritage Conference: Delhi; Reclaiming Knowledge Legacy.
Commemorate 132nd Anniversary: – Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago speech (1893).
Aadi Thiruvathirai Festival: (Tamil Nadu). Rajendra Chola birth anniversary.
Maratha Military Landscapes: Added to UNESCO WHS; forts in (total 12 = 11 in Maharashtra, Gingee in Tamil Nadu).
Maharashtra: Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav declared State Festival. (Tilak 1893 started).
Piprahwa relics: (Lord Buddha remains, excavated by Oeppe in 1898 – Kapilavastu, Uttar Pradesh) returned to India.
Ashoka Pillar replica unveiled at Waskaduwa (Sri Lanka).