India: A treasure trove of traditions</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="India: A treasure trove of traditions"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="India,A,treasure,trove,of,traditions"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">08-01-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>India: A treasure trove of traditions</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New Delhi, India (Hindu): While India is scripting a new chapter in the knowledge economy, we need new initiatives to preserve the countless manuscripts that contain our intellectual heritage. Forty-five manuscripts, considered as India’s “treasures”, were identified by the National Mission for Manuscripts in February this year as “Vijnananidhi” based on an evaluation by scholars, and their custodians were honoured for preserving them. These are only some “gems” among the one million manuscripts placed in the public domain by the Mission through its work in the last four years. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/01/06/stories/2008010650210700.htm" target="blank">www.hindu.com/mag/2008/01/06/stories/2008010650210700.htm</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show