Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 9: Three foreign language magazines of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs were introduced here today by the Regional Director ICCR Jammu, Balwant Thakur in a press briefing at ICCR Headquarters in Jammu.
These magazines namely ‘Papeles de la India’ (Spanish), ‘Rencontre avec L’ Inde’ (French) and ‘Thaqafat-ul-Hind’ (Arabic) will now be available for the reading in the library of ICCR Jammu which has exclusively been started for the visiting scholars, students and researchers.
In addition to this, ICCR magazines viz ‘Indian Horizons’ and ‘Africa Quarterly’ (both in English), and ‘Gagananchal’ (Hindi) will also be available for readers. The idea behind introducing foreign language magazines in Jammu is to promote reading in these foreign languages about India its ethos, heritage, history and culture.
By disseminating this information the motive is to make the public aware of the programmes and initiatives of ICCR, he said and desired that interested people/scholars may take benefit of this ICCR’s highly valuable facility.
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