GUWAHATI, Oct 31 - The All India People�s Science Network (AIPSN) will launch a countrywide, yearlong programme to celebrate India�s shared heritage and diversity and a celebration of all voices that value dignity, justice for all, from November 7. Assam Science Society, Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Ellora Vigyan Mancha, Jana Sasthya Abhiyan, Assam and Commercial Representative Union (CRU)-NE will organise the campaign in the society.
The Assam organisers of the campaign will organise State-level programmes on agriculture, education, health, environment and science popularisation.
The campaign named �Sabka Desh Hamara Desh� will include programmes like �kalajathas�, youth exchange programmes, national children�s science festival, science month celebrations, regional science exhibitions, book exhibitions and film festivals, among others, to generate public awareness on democracy, diversity, development, social justice and scientific temperament.
The organisers of the campaign stated in a brochure that seven decades back, India started a journey as a free nation, imbued with the dream that political freedom would transform the lives of every Indian. The colonial rulers left behind a country considered by many as the poorest and the most backward in the world.
The founding fathers of the country�s constitution gave the country a constitution that valued justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. The country has many things to be proud of today.
The people of the country have repeatedly rejected attempts to divide them on lines of religion, caste, language and ethnicity. Thus, India has remained the most diverse nation, and it has embraced and provided space for everybody, irrespective of their origins.
The foods, clothes, buildings, songs, poetry, books of its people are the testimony to the shared heritage of this nation. People here speak different languages and practice different religions, yet they feel proud to be Indians, as, they have built this great country with the love and solidarity.
But a small elite section has prospered in this country and it is prepared to sell the country�s wealth and dignity to foreign collaborators. A large section of its people are forced to starve, remain ignorant and unemployed. Liberty to the advocates of social justice has been denied and repeated attempts are made to break the unity of the people and to mash the value of fraternity. The poor, socially underprivileged and women of the country, all are finding themselves marginalised and are constantly fighting for a life of dignity.
Under such a situation, the AIPSN has undertaken this nationwide, yearlong campaign to ignite the spirit of 1947, said the organisers.
