Mumbai : Mount Litera Zee School (MLZS), India’s fastest growing network of K12 schools, partners with SPIC MACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth), an esteemed non-profit organization, to promote Indian Cultural Heritage across its network of schools. With this partnership, more than 80 MLZS will embark on a program that will accommodate the diversity of our cultural heritage and going forward all new MLZS opening across the country will also be running the program.

The program intends to sensitize MLZS students about India’s age old and valuable heritage which is slowly being forgotten. The idea is not merely promoting some of our art forms but to expose the children to the larger perspective of our heritage. Students of various age groups will come under the ambit of this program.

Commenting on this partnership, Mr. KVS Seshasai, Chief Executive Officer, Zee Learn Limited, said, “Our vision has been to shape global minds on the Indian soil by giving access to world-class education that promotes the all-round development of our students. However, our belief is that in order to make a child tomorrow’s global leader, we need to imbibe in them an appreciation of India’s rich and natural cultural heritage. Through our partnership with SPIC MACAY, our objective will be to widen their horizon and impart holistic education. I have been deeply influenced and inspired by SPIC-MACAY activities during my school days, and remember the inspiration provided by hearing and meeting eminent Indian masters like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Bismillah Khan and Pandits Rajan Sajan Mishra. I hope this tieup will bring the same inspiration to all students at Mount Litera Zee Schools”

MLZS and SPIC MACAY have collaborated to shape an interactive and activity based program. As part of this program, events would be conducted by SPIC MACAY at MLZS schools, based on its various modules comprising of Indian classical music & dance, folk, talks by eminent people from different fields, screening of cinema classics, craft workshops, yoga & meditation, heritage walks. Heritage Clubs will be formed at each school. Weekly presentation sessions are devised to ensure students share their understanding of Indian heritage. Students will also get to participate in SPIC MACAY’s National/State/Zonal Conventions, which would inspire them to take this movement forward in their zones.

“We are delighted to partner with MLZS and look forward to enriching the experience of its students by integrating formal education with different aspects of Indian heritage. The program jointly created by us will influence their way of life and thinking and inspire one to become a better human being” added Dr. Kiran Seth, Founder- SPIC MACAY.

SOURCE : Lokesh Shastri