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Gandhi Centre to be launched in Holland
Sunday September 11, 2011 06:02:15 PM,
IANS
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Brussels: A Gandhi
Centre will be inaugurated at The Hague on Mahatma Gandhi's Oct 2
birth anniversary, the Indian embassy in the Netherlands said in a
statement.
The Gandhi Centre will be inaugurated by Karan Singh, president of
the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), EuAsiaNews
reported.
It will be the 36th such centre established by the ICCR in various
parts of the world.
"The centre would act as an important platform for developing and
maintaining contacts with our Dutch friends, including students,
teachers, academicians, cultural personalities and artists to
project the rich and diverse cultures of India and the
Netherlands," the embassy said.
The Indo-Dutch bilateral relationship, "historically warm and
friendly", has been going through a period of rapid expansion.
Cultural interaction which goes back 400 years, "would acquire a
new dynamism and momentum" with the establishment of the Gandhi
Centre, it added.
The centre's launch has been a long anticipated event by the
Indian embassy and the government, as well as by over 200,000
people of Indian origin in the Netherlands, the statement said.
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