Union Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that the exchange between India and Mongolia has historically extended far beyond religion, encompassing astronomy, calendrical sciences, cosmology, ritual geometry, medicine, and literature. He said this while addressing the international conference on Cultural Interflow between India and Mongolia in New Delhi, to mark seventy years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

 

He said that the conference is shaped by shared spiritualistic and artistic traditions and sustained cultural interflow. Mr Shekhawat also emphasised that India has long been regarded in Mongolia as a sacred geography. The Minister highlighted that manuscript preservation requires the convergence of conservation science and digital technology, adding that the conference provides a platform for cooperation in digital humanities.

 

Mr Shekhawat further said that preserving heritage is essential to shaping the intellectual and moral imagination of the future. The two-day conference focuses on archaeological links, religious and architectural traditions, Sanskrit texts and manuscripts in Mongolia, literary and artistic exchanges, transnational journeys of monks and scholars, and shared material heritage such as coins, sculptures and crafts.