“Ink
your links” Anveshan
2013
We call upon
students to ponder……
Have
we ever wondered what makes us the kind of people we are? What decides how we
look, speak, dress and think; the way we live life and celebrate it? How does
all of it make us so different from each other and yet so similar? Anveshan
this year urges you to ponder over these questions and share what you find.
ITIHAAS
believes that each one of us is the outcome of a long, long journey, undertaken
over generations. What used to be and what exists is bound together by a common
root, a shared link. In fact, we are all the sum total of countless links
collected and connected through the ages. It is these links, abuzz with stories
and experiences, which define our identity. It is what we have inherited from
those who have lived before us. We embody these links and are consistently moulding
them, till they are fit to be passed on to those who will come after us…
Anveshan
2013 is about identifying and celebrating the snippets that complete the grand
narrative of your family, community, region or country. So, go out and find the
links that make you complete and, then, pen them all down using your imagination
and creative flourish. Slow down a little, turn around and maybe even take a
few steps back towards the path that has brought you, as a generation, this
far.
Every
quest, every search is about looking for the relevant links and following them in
the right order. Being the generation that is so thoroughly hooked on to the
internet, we understand it pretty well. We, too, carry out searches, albeit on
Google, and know exactly how crucial it is to follow the correct (hyper) links.
But we need to learn that Google doesn’t have all the answers. In fact, the
best ones are those found not by digging into a gadget but by physically
foraying into the wondrous world that surrounds us.
Anveshan
2013 encourages you to rediscover the joys of holding a pen in your hands and
inking down the thoughts. Go out, to places where our collective inheritance
thrives. Meet people and soak in their rich experiences. Read up those rare and
well-preserved books, magazine, manuscripts and letters that you certainly
can’t download from somewhere as a PDF! Look for the real links that you can
touch and hold, feel and embrace, imagine and cherish…
Dates
to reckon:
30th April Last date for sending registration forms
15th July Last
date for submitting projects
End August Final event
©itihaas2013
