Activities

The list of seminars and publications of the organisation

(International Seminar)

Buddhism and Jainism


1976

(International Seminar)

Folk Culture

(5 volumes)


1978

(International Seminar)

Societies in Transition: Alternatives for the Future


1981

(International Seminar)

Gandhi & Modern Times


1982

(International Seminar)

Environment & 21st Century


1985

(International Seminar)

Tribal Culture in a Changing World


1985

(International Seminar)

Comparative Religion & Challenges of the Present


1988

(National Conference)

Cuttack 1000 years


1989

(International Seminar)

Rethinking Indian Culture: Challenges & Responses


1998

(International Seminar)

Population Stabilisation and Development


1998

Some of our other publications:

Jibanara Bateghate (Autobiography Part-I) (Oriya) (Autobiography- Part-I)

For this Autobiography he has been conferred State Sahitya Akademi Award

Socio-Economic Projects

Many socio-economic projects for emancipation of poor and marginalised people of the state. Just a glimpse of our involvement in some of the projects is as follows:

Man & Forests

(D.K. Publisher, New Delhi, has published 10 volumes of books on findings of this project.)

Friendship & Cultural Relations Organisations
Awareness Programmes
Memorial Lectures
Other Events and Seminars
Friendship & Cultural Relations Organisations

As mentioned before ‘The Universe’ had established friendship and cultural relations with many countries.. The main purpose of these friendship organisations was to project our cultural heritage to the International arena and also to acquaint our people with the great traditions of other people. Dignitaries from various countries had visited Odisha under different friendship and cultural banners and vice versa. 

Some of these friendship and cultural relations organisations and their significant achievements are as follows:

Apart from cultural exchanges, this organisation was promoting German Language courses for the people of Odisha.

This organisation had sent three delegations (Year- 1987,1988, 1989) to the undivided USSR, comprising all total ten members, who were from different walks of life. Moreover, two students had been to the undivided USSR for higher studies.

In 1979, a delegation of children from Odisha had visited Bulgaria to participate in the World Children’s Festival.

A French language class was taking place under the banner of this association.

Under this banner, every year Children Festival used to take place in the campus of “The Universe”. This festival was dedicated to the innocent victims of the Atomic Holocaust. During this week-long event, students from different schools of Odisha used to participate in 45 different types of competitions. At one point of time, it was recorded as the biggest Children Festival Event of India’s Eastern Zone, when the number of participants on a particular year went up to 2000. Dignitaries from Japan had graced this event in different times to motivate participants.

The main highlight of this committee was to send delegations from Odisha to China. There were 5 delegations (from 1980 to 1985) visiting China, which comprised all total 40 members. They were mainly social workers, bureaucrats, politicians, engineers, artistes, scientists, doctors etc. The main purpose of sending these delegations was to strengthen the great tradition of friendship between the two countries. Certainly, it helped in building the bondage after the sorrowful events of 1962.

Our founder was the first from Odisha to visit Mongolia for promotion of friendship between our two countries.

Awareness Programmes

CCGR (The Universe) has organised more than 2000 weekly awareness programmes. The voyage of the awareness programmes, which started way back in early 80s of the 20th Century, gave an impetus to people’s inquisitiveness. Every Friday, a speaker of repute was invited to speak on the topic of relevance.

These awareness programmes had continued till the onslaught of the pandemic in 2020.

Memorial Lectures

The Universe has organised a series of Memorial Lectures to commemorate eminent personalities cutting across professions. Just to mention a few,

Other Events and Seminars