The country’s oldest think tank, the United Service Institution of India (USI), is organising the first Indian Military Heritage Festival (IMHF) later this month, which, it said seeks to address the gap in the “national discourse and cultural calendar.”
“Its [IMHF] activities will be driven towards enhancing our understanding of the country’s rich military heritage and traditions; contemporary security and strategy concerns; and the push to achieve self-reliance in military capability through the Atmanirbhar Bharat programmes of the Government of India,” the USI said in a statement on Monday. It is scheduled to be held on October 21 and 22.
“Despite having a long and glorious military history and strategic culture going back to many centuries, the general public is largely unaware of the different facets of India’s military history, heritage, and security concerns,” the statement said. Through informed sessions, ranging from discussions on indigenous historical knowledge systems, India and the world wars, post-Independence challenges and understandings of war and conflict, analysing war through the lens of fiction and media, the IMHF will definitely be one of its kind, catering to audiences from all walks of life, it stated.
