२१ ते २३ मे २०१२ रोइंगला धावती भेट दिली . ज्ञान
प्रबोधिनीतील युवक , युवतीच्या आसाम -
अरुणाचल दौऱ्याच्या दरम्यान ३ दिवस मोकळे
होते .
गेली २-३ वर्ष RIWACH च्या
संकल्पाने बद्दल , संशोधन संस्थेच्या इमारतीच्या उभारणीबद्दल ऐकात होतो. रोइंगजवळ इदुली खेड्यात संशोधन संस्थेची व्यवस्थापन इमारत, निवास इमारत, ग्रंथालय उभे
राहिले आहे. औषधी वनस्पतीचे उद्यान विकसित झाले आहे. सध्या अरुणाचल मधील
लोकजीवनाचा परीचय व अभ्यास व्हावा यासाठी ऐक संग्रहालय उभारण्याच्या योजनेचे तपशील
विजयजींकडून माहित करून घेत होतो. विजय स्वामी सुमारे २५ वर्षे अरुणाचल प्रदेशात
सेवाकार्य करत आहेत.सध्या RIWACH चे सेक्रेटरी आहेत.
अरुणाचल प्रदेशातील लोकजीवन , नृत्य
, कला, संगीत , जैव विविधता अशा विषयांचा ज्यांना अभ्यास करायचा आहे त्यांचासाठी
स्थानिक तज्ञ मार्गदर्शक , ग्रंथालय व निवास व्यवस्था RIWACH मध्ये उपलब्ध आहे.
काही विषयांसाठी शिष्यवृत्ती उपलब्ध होऊ शकते. अधिक तपशिलासाठी RIWACH ची माहिती
वाचा व विजय स्वामींशी संपर्क करा.
दर आठवड्याला पूर्वांचलातील एका संस्थेच्या वा संघटनेच्या कामाची माहिती लिहिण्याचा विचार आहे.
प्रशांत दिवेकर
RIWATCH
Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions Cultures & Heritage
Registered Society of Ar. Pr. No. SR/ITA/4265
(An Affiliate Unit of ICCS-US)
Iduli Village, Roing-792110
Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh
(India)
Various ethnic
communities of North east India, residing amidst the enchanting
Himalaya, with rich age old traditions
and values have been always an inspiring
source for their cultural tapestry and
wisdom to other communities of rest part of the
world. The present world is looking
back to this wisdom incorporated in the value
system that binds the societies
together. Even in the western countries, numerous
Natives, while coping up with changing
scenario everywhere, still hold on to their
traditional value system passed on to
them by generation together. Many universities
at national and international level
are now offering various degrees of Doctoral and
Post Doctoral Research in studying
different aspects of such traditions and further
promote, preserve and nurture those to
develop better understanding of each other’s
rich cultural values and thus promote
universal brotherhood.
With these noble
objectives, the Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions,
Cultures & Heritage (RIWATCH), has
been established at Iduli Village on the outskirts
of Roing, Lower Dibang Valley. It is an Affiliate unit of International Centre for Cultural Studies (ICCS), Pennsylvania, USA. The
foundation was laid by His Excellency
the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Gen. J. J. Singh, AVSM, PVSM (Retd).
The basic objective
of RIWATCH is to cater to the needs of research
scholars in studying different ethnic
groups of North east India and initiate
comparative and cross cultural studies
of various ethnic groups of different countries
with that of India in general and
north east India in particular. It will also facilitate
young scholars from North east India
to have opportunities of cross cultural studies
in foreign countries and vice versa.
This will ultimately result in Scholar Exchange
Programmes
with
different higher educational institutions of the world.
The RIWATCH is a
registered Society under Societies
Registration Act in
Arunachal Pradesh. The RIWATCH has already started hosting scholars from
different countries for ethnic
studies. Miss Maria Priscilla
Alvarado Gomez was the first
scholar from Costa Rica attached to RIWATCH to study the traditions of Idu-Mishmis for a
period of 3 months in 2008- 2009. She found lots
of common cultural threads with Natives of Costa Rica and Native Americans of USA. Ms Likamoni Mein, the first
Bhartanatyam Artist from Arunachal, who did
extensive study on Ancient Indian Dance Forms under the support of RIWATCH is now proposed to go to Hungary to
undertake a comparative study on “Mudras
in
classical dances of India with eastern Europian dance forms”
The RIWATCH’s two
departments Himalayan Herbs ans Ethnic Medicine (HHEM) and Department of Language Development has been already
started. The
Department of Sociology, anthropology,
archaeology, museaology etc shall be
started from winter 2010. The strength
of the institute will be a museum displaying
cultural artefacts of various ethnic
groups of the region and a library having a good
collection of books on north east
India and world ethnic groups, including a digital
library and documentation centre. It
is planned that the RIWATCH will start as a
Research Institute initially and will
endeavour to become university in itself in the
long run.
Till
today RIWATCH was proud to host 12 international scholars. To site the
recent
one example “Accomplishment of first phase research study of Dr.
Bikul
Das, Research Scientist from Stanford University, California in
collaboration
with RIWATCH and Guwahati Medical Collage.” The study was
done
from August 16 to 26, 2010.
The unique features
of RIWATCH will be Study Abroad and Student Exchange
Programme
with different countries. The RIWATCH will have an Advisory and Governing Council consisting of the experts drawn from
various fields, local
community elders and Government Officials as Honorary
members.
Correspondence
:
IPS
Campus, Roing-792 110, Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh
State
Office : Flat-5 Bam Building, Opp. Kameng Hotel, Bank Tinali, Itanagar-791 111,
Ar. Pr
Email : riwatch.roing@gmail.com, vijayarunachal@gmail.com Ph: 94360-55828
