ZAGREB, March 7 (Hina) - Croatia and India will sign a programme on cultural cooperation based on their agreement on cooperation in culture, education, science and sports, Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic told Hina following
his recent one-week visit to India. The programme will be signed during a visit of the Indian Minister of Development and Social Resources, Murti Manohar Joshi, who is to visit the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. During his visit to the New Delhi University, the Croatian minister presented his hosts with a collection of about one hundred books for the Slavic and Ugrofinnic Department, which also includes a Croatian language section. The Croatian public is not acquainted with the fact that a distinguished Croatian priest Filip Vezdin had lived in India.In the second half of the 18th century, Vezdin published the first Sanskrit grammar, Biskupic said adding that a plaque commemorating
ZAGREB, March 7 (Hina) - Croatia and India will sign a programme on
cultural cooperation based on their agreement on cooperation in
culture, education, science and sports, Croatian Culture Minister
Bozo Biskupic told Hina following his recent one-week visit to
India.
The programme will be signed during a visit of the Indian Minister
of Development and Social Resources, Murti Manohar Joshi, who is to
visit the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.
During his visit to the New Delhi University, the Croatian minister
presented his hosts with a collection of about one hundred books for
the Slavic and Ugrofinnic Department, which also includes a
Croatian language section.
The Croatian public is not acquainted with the fact that a
distinguished Croatian priest Filip Vezdin had lived in India.
In the second half of the 18th century, Vezdin published the first
Sanskrit grammar, Biskupic said adding that a plaque commemorating
this prominent Croat had been unveiled during the visit to India.
Biskupic and his Indian hosts agreed that an anthology of Croatian
poets should soon be translated into Hindu.
The Croatian culture ministry delegation also visited a gallery of
modern art in New Delhi. The two delegations agreed for the Indian
side to prepare a travelling exhibition of modern tantra, to be
presented in several European countries, starting with Greece.
After Greece, the exhibition would move to Zagreb and then to Warsaw
and several other European countries.
During a visit to the Goi province, Biskupic viewed the church of
St. Vlaho, built by the residents of the Gvendolin settlement, who
came from Dubrovnik. A week of Croatian film, held in the Indian
capital, aroused great interest of the Indian public, Biskupic
reported, expressing satisfaction with his talks with the State
Secretary for Culture, Sathy Murty.
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