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Indian Cultural Centre in Budapest goes online
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The coronavirus pandemic engulfs major countries of Europe. Embassy of India decides to cancel all direct classes and interaction, all events and put all measures for precaution in place for the safety of its employees and visitors. The India Cultural Centre announces its online courses, recorded on videos and made available to the students immediately on social media platforms. Within next few days India locks down and threat of the Corona reaches all big countries besides China and Europe.
The concept of having online classes is not new. Since ages, online platforms and portals have been creating educational lessons for students for distance learning. Master classes have been available from doyens of different fields for the students who are unable to afford admission in premier institutions or can’t go out of their countries to learn from the masters. But it is the first time that Indian Embassies of the entire world have turned towards teaching about Indian culture through social media platforms.
The Indian Cultural Centre in Hungary took the lead in this and immediately developed modules suitable for posting online.
The three important courses taught by Indian teachers at the Amrita Sher-Gil Cultural Centre of Embassy of India are Yoga, traditional classical dance Kathak and Tabla, a classical percussion instrument from North India. Besides this, there are four other weekly courses that are taught by trained Hungarian teachers in dances like Bharatnatyam, Odissi, Kuchipudi and Sitar.
The Indian teachers not only started uploading fresh videos based on their lesson plans, but also actively conducted Skype lessons, facebook Live Sessions with students as well as using the Whatsapp video chats to solve their academic queries and problems. On the concept, Director, India Cultural Centre, Tanuja Shankar, opined,’ Due to the ‘stay at home’ orders and the partial curfew in Budapest, students are all at home.
There is a feeling of anxiety, fear and despondency regarding the virus that is a matter of worry for them.
They want to be relaxed, calm and de-stressed. These daily video lessons help them not only be abreast with their courses, but also feel relaxed and tension free. They practice at home and are in touch with their teachers.’
