{"id":172927,"date":"2025-06-10T13:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172927"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:38:34","slug":"bhagavad-gita-natyashastra-added-to-unescos-memory-of-the-world-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/bhagavad-gita-natyashastra-added-to-unescos-memory-of-the-world-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagavad Gita &#038; Natyashastra Added to UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World Register"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bhagavad Gita manuscripts and Bharat Muni\u2019s Natyashastra were added to UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World Register, recognizing India\u2019s rich cultural and intellectual heritage.<br>With this, India\u2019s total entries on the list rise to 14. The Gita, a universal spiritual-philosophical guide, and the Natyashastra, a foundational treatise on drama, dance, and aesthetics, highlight India\u2019s ancient contributions to world knowledge.<br>PM Modi and the Culture Minister hailed it as a historic moment, while UNESCO emphasized the importance of preserving such documentary heritage for global memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the Memory of the World Register?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Established in\u00a0<strong>1992,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World (MoW) Programme<\/strong>\u00a0aims to preserve and provide access to documentary heritage of global significance. It safeguards manuscripts, archives, oral traditions, audio-visual content, and library collections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">India\u2019s Inclusion in 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On April 17, 2025, Bhagavad Gita manuscripts and Natyashastra by Bharat Muni were added to the register.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India\u2019s total entries in the list now stand at 14.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhagavad Gita manuscripts and Bharat Muni\u2019s Natyashastra were added to UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World Register, recognizing India\u2019s rich cultural and intellectual heritage.With this, India\u2019s total entries on the list rise to 14. The Gita, a universal spiritual-philosophical guide, and the Natyashastra, a foundational treatise on drama, dance, and aesthetics, highlight India\u2019s ancient contributions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5371],"tags":[4916],"class_list":["post-172927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2025","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172929,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172927\/revisions\/172929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}