JAMES GLOVER's Vedic Maths Tour in India : Report

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

 

Below is tour report of the Vedic Maths workshops organised by us in India

during Dec 2002 & conducted by James Glover, an expert on the subject from

U.K. I'd like that this report be published as new in newspapers /

newsletters / internet / magazines etc.

 

Regards

 

RP JAIN

 

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"James Glover" <jt.glover

"MLBD" <mlbd

Cc: "Jeremy Pickles" <Jeremy.Pickles; "Kenneth Williams"

<KRWilliams

Friday, December 27, 2002 4:18 PM

jg vm tour report

 

 

> Dear Rajendra,

 

> Report on India Tour

 

> James Glover, one of the leading scholars and practitioners of Vedic

> mathematics, conducted a lecture tour of India in December. During his

> two-week visit he conducted thirty workshops and seminars covering five

> cities. Workshops were given to school and college students as well as

> to the public and everywhere the response was extremely positive. The

> whole tour was organised by Mr R.P.Jain of Motilal Banarsidass

> Publishers who is also the Vice-President of the newly established IRRFIH

> (International Research and Resource Foundation for Indian Heritage,

> incorporating the World Academy for Vedic Mathematics). For several

> weeks Mr Jain had worked tirelessly in setting up all the workshops and

> lectures and the great success of the tour is largely due to his fine

> efforts & many others who have equally jointly participated in making it a

success.

 

> MUMBAI : The tour started in Mumbai on the 7th December with a 4 hour

workshop at

> Tolani College of Commerce. The students were about seventeen years of

> age and really enjoyed the introductory session. They realised that

> there are many easy methods for calculation and algebra available for

> them to use in their studies. In the afternoon there was a Vedic maths

> book exhibition at the Motilal shop in Bombay where Mr Glover was

> interviewed by the Times of India. The large article from this appeared

> in the press the following weekend.

 

> BANGALORE : From Mumbai he flew to Bangalore in southern India and

conducted four

> days of workshops at the School of Ancient Wisdom. This beautifully

> situated School is an open retreat for anyone wishing to pursue their

> spiritual studies or attend related lectures and workshops. It is about

> 40 km north of Bangalore and so was a little difficult for many

> interested people to attend. Nevertheless, there were two days of

> workshops for children followed by two for adults. One group of five

> were so keen that they had travelled all the way from Hyderabad to

> attend. This involved a 12 hour overnight bus journey. Useful contacts

> were also made with several scholars of Vedic mathematics. There is

> quite a good deal of interest in Vedic maths in Bangalore. This has been

> greatly enhanced by the work of Dr Shirivathsa who has studied the

> system for many years and conducts workshops there. A number of software

> engineers in Bangalore are pursuing the possibility of using Vedic

> mathematics for their work. The system would seem to lend itself to

> aspects of cryptology and data transmission.

 

> HYDERABAD :From Bangalore James Glover went by overnight train to

Hyderabad where

> he gave two large workshops. The first was at the Gujarati High School

> in the morning. Attending the workshop were about 500 students and fifty

> teachers. The second workshop was at the Hyderabad Public School with

> about 200 attending. This was a public event and there were far more

> adults. There was also some press coverage. Both workshops were a

> tremendous success with a large number of people wishing to follow up the

subject.

 

> NAGPUR: The next three days were spent in Nagpur. His Holiness Sri Bharati

> Krishna Tirtha who first provided Vedic mathematics in its modern format

> lived at an Ashram in Nagpur during the 1950's. He established an

> organisation called Vishva Purnanirman Sangh. This has been kept going

> and is now flourishing with the establishment of a day-school for

> children. The school is called the BKVV (Bharati Krishna Vidya Veera) as

> is located on the same spot as the Ashram. James's next few workshops

> took place at the BKVV school where the teachers are all very keen to

> take up Vedic mathematics. He also met there with two of the remaining

> disciples of Bharati Krishna Tirtha. There is a lot of interest in

> Nagpur and this has been helped by the work of several experienced

> scholars of Vedic mathematics who are associated with the IRRFIH. Mr

> Glover had a useful and pleasant meeting with these scholars in Nagpur.

 

> NEW DELHI : Most of the second week was spent in Delhi where there were

eight

> workshops at six schools. These again were very successful with all the

> students attending finding fun in mathematics as well as practical

> benefits. The two main workshops were at the India Habitat Centre. These

> were public and over five hundred people attended together with a TV

> crew from Dur Darshan, the Indian government channel. The first of these

> workshops was introduced by Dr L.M.Singhvi MP who used to be High

> Commissioner for India in the UK and who is the president of the IRRFIH.

> He gave a stirring speech as to the great benefits of Vedic

> mathematics and how everybody in India should take it up. Despite

criticism & controversy of VM in the past he spoke

> of its origins and main characteristics together with some details of

> the research and development which has taken place. He described how it

> is that through R.P.Jain's alongwith his Co-workers' unceasing efforts

there is now a new wave of

> interest in India. Dr Singhvi mentioned that he has spoken with the Prime

> Minister of India about the developments in Vedic mathematics and

> received a very favourable and positive response. Also in attendance at

> both the workshops was Prof.Hukum Singh who is head of mathematics at

NCERT.

> Professor Singh is responsible for the whole of mathematics education in

India.

> On Friday 20th December there was a meeting between Dr Joshi and Mr

> Glover together with directors from Motilal Publishers. Dr Joshi is the

> HRD Minister (Minister for Education and Science). He is most interested

> in the developments in Vedic mathematics and approves whole-heartedly of

> the introduction of Vedic mathematics into schools. It was explained to

> him that there are a few people in the UK who have long experience of

> implementing Vedic mathematics into the school curricula together with

> the provision of in-service teacher training and the supply of resource

> material. The expertise for organising such programmes is available. He

> suggested contacting the various state education departments separately

> together with NCERT and SCERT but he has already recommended the system.

> He gave much praise to the work of Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.

> All in all the lecture tour was a great success. It was also very timely

> because there appears to be a groundswell of interest in Vedic

> mathematics in the country of origin.

>

> regards

> James