: Opinion: Memories of the World #IndiaNEWS #News Pramod K Nayar What ostensibly distinguishes the human race from other species is its incessant need to preserve its memories in art, literature and

Opinion: Memories of the World #IndiaNEWS #News
Pramod K Nayar
What ostensibly distinguishes the human race from other species is its incessant need to preserve its memories in art, literature and prosthetic devices. The glories of ancient kingdoms, the devastations of wars, the achievements of scientists are recorded with the presumption that later generations will want to know these details of their ancestors.
2022 is the 30th year of UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ (MoW) project. MoW creates an ‘MoW Register’, to which people from around the world send entries. From India, the MoW Register lists the archives of the Dutch East India Company, several Sanskrit texts, the Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Timuriyah and Tamil medical manuscripts.
Collective memory as property?
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