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What is
World Heritage Day?
Monday April 18, 2011 03:12:04 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: As the
country celebrates World Heritage Day Monday, here's how it all
started.
In 1982, a symposium organised by the International Council of
Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in Tunisia proposed observing an
"International Day for Monuments and Sites" across the world.
The proposal for an annual day was then approved by the Unesco
general conference in November 1983 that April 18 should be
declared the International Monuments and Sites Day. The day is
traditionally called the World Heritage Day.
In 2010, international cooperation within the context of world
heritage was the subject at a lecture by Simon Richard Molesworth,
honorary chairman of the executive committee of the International
National Trusts Organisation.
Molesworth said a day dedicated to world heritage "offered an
opportunity to raise public awareness about natural and cultural
heritage".
Celebrating the life of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib and a talk on
rethinking restoration in India were some of the highlights of
World Heritage Day here Monday.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture organised an exhibition on Mirza
Ghalib's works with at the Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti. It will be
accompanied by a movie on the life of Ghalib by Sair-e-Nizamuddin,
a young group of heritage volunteers. A ghazal recital by Begum
Muneer Khatoon was organised at the India International Centre.
The capital's National Museum, one of the the country's largest
repositories of tangible heritage, listed its efforts at
conservation. It organised a lecture by professor K.V. Thomas, the
union minister of state for consumer affairs, food and public
distribution.
Plans are afoot by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and
the state archaeology department to restore many of the city
monuments. Work is in progress in Hauz Khas, Adilabad Fort and
Lodhi Gardens.
A rethink on the way to restore and conserve the country's
heritage was the crux of the third Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture
at the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).
The state INTACH chapters organised heritage walks in cities like
Bengaluru, Amritsar, Chandigarh and in neighbouring Gurgaon.
In Gurgaon, the spotlight was on traditional water harvesting
methods and monuments associated with storage of water. The
capital and surrounding areas have several "baolis" or historical
step wells which were used for storing water.
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