Monday, November 09, 2009

India's ambassador in the faculty of world studies


Tuesday, Aban 12, India's ambassador to Iran- sunjey sing- visited students of Indian Studies and North American Studies in the faculty of World Studies. We as the students of American Studies were eager the see the ambassador. The meeting was held in Conference Hall as usual and the session began with Dr. Moinifar's introduction to the meeting. Then the ambassador started his speech by praising our faculty and its high-tech facilities and interestingly mentioned that he would like to start his education in our faculty if he had time. Then came the main speech.
As much as I understood,
Islam came to India in 11th century by Sultan Mahmood GHaznavi. The languages most used in Indian textbooks were Sanskrit and parakrit, but regrettably Sanskrit is not used in India anymore and it is mostly a classic language, but it is being taught in some parts of the world. He, as any other Hindu was proud of Mahatma Gandhi and called him the "father of the nation". Interestingly he also put emphasize on the Islamic religion of India and mentioned that India has the second Muslim population I the world. He was also proud of India's population which is the 2nd largest population in the world only after china. Other religious denominations present in India are as follows:
- Hindu
- Muslim
- Christian
- Buddhist

India's ambassador to Iran was proud of India's democracy and said that the judiciary system in India is completely independent and there is always a peaceful change of government.
We have always been told that there is a fraternal relationship between Iran and India and that's why there are lots of Indian student in Mashhad and Qom and lots of Iranian students in India. India considers itself an economic power; truly it is right because it has the 3rd largest economic in the world after U.S and China.
The most interesting part of the ambassadors' speech was the part that he spoke about Indianness. What is indiannness? As ambassador said because of diversity and variety of religious and ethnic groups in India it is very common for two Indians not to understand each other, even their appearance maybe unknown, but what is certain is that they can recognize each other in any part of the world and that is the miracle of Indianness. There is a hidden link that connects Indian together.
So it is INDIANness that in spite of all the differences in speech, behavior, clothing, music, makeup and other aspects of Indian life, makes Indians united and coherent.
Now let's think of something more tangible:
Is there such a miracle as IRANIANness to connect every Iranian in any part of the world together?
I just hope so.

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