தமிழ்ப் பாரம்பரிய அறக்கட்டளை
(Tamil Heritage Trust)
presents
by
Arvind Venkataraman
at 5.30pm on Thursday, July 14th, 2016
at
Arkay Convention Center,
146/3 R.H.Road, OMS Lakshana (Above Shah Electronics), Mylapore, Chennai
About the Topic:
- The story of idol theft and the network out there abroad which deals in this contraband
- The legal framework and the successful and futile attempts so far on bringing back our idols
- Attempts at identifying, locating and the attempt of restitution, and the recent successes
- Despite the successes, the massive work to be done and the way forward which includes ideas from crowd-sourcing etc. to prevent future theft and full-scale restitution.
About the Speaker:
Arvind,
an IT professional from Chennai, is interested in history, Tamil poetry
and art, especially, temple art. He dabbles in photography and shares
his photographs in Picasa at http://picasaweb.google.co.in/arvind.venkatraman, which
has close to 100 albums covering mostly temples of Tamilnadu. He likes
to read both fiction and non-fiction, spends a lot of his time on the
internet and has travelled widely, both within India and abroad. He is
also an avid follower of classical movies - English, Tamil, Hindi. He
is very keen in embarking on projects documenting various heritage
sites in Tamilnadu and making it available on the net for public. He is
keen to enlist support on this regard.
RSVP:
A. Annamalai: Gandhi Study Centre - gandhicentre@gmail.com;
S. Kannan - musickannan@gmail.com; 98414-47974
R. Gopu - writergopu@yahoo.com, 98417-24641
T. Sivasubramanian - siva.durasoft@gmail.com, 98842-94494
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