{"id":121447,"date":"2021-12-23T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121447"},"modified":"2021-12-23T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:42:08","slug":"sri-lanka-and-india-discuss-ways-to-promote-bilateral-cultural-relations-through-the-iconic-figures-of-theri-sanghamitta-and-sita-of-ramayana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/23\/sri-lanka-and-india-discuss-ways-to-promote-bilateral-cultural-relations-through-the-iconic-figures-of-theri-sanghamitta-and-sita-of-ramayana\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka and India discuss ways to promote bilateral cultural relations through the iconic figures of Theri Sanghamitta and Sita of Ramayana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">High Commission of Sri Lanka<\/strong> <strong>New Delhi.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka and India discussed ways in which the\ntwo countries could further enhance bilateral cultural relations when Sri\nLanka&#8217;s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with Minister of State\nfor External Affairs &amp; Culture of India Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting between the High Commissioner of\nSri Lanka and the Minister of State for External Affairs &amp; Culture of India\nwas held in a very cordial manner. The discussion focused on further enhancing\nbilateral cultural relations, in particular through promoting Theri Sanghamitta\nand Sita of Ramayana, the two iconic figures who played unique roles in the\nrelations between India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both dignitaries noted that Theri Sanghamitta\nand Sita of Ramayana were two extraordinary historical figures that have\ncontributed much to Indo-Lanka relations and agreed to explore ways and means\nto promote modern bilateral cultural ties revolving around them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaboration possibilities between Sri Lanka\nand the National Museum of New Delhi and the National Gallery of Modern Art\nwere also discussed at this meeting. High Commissioner Moragoda invited State\nMinister Meenakashi Lekhi to undertake a visit to Sri Lanka as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High\nCommissioner Moragoda also shared a copy of his policy document, the\n&#8220;Integrated Country Strategy for Sri Lanka Diplomatic Missions in India\n2021\/2023&#8221;, which includes a detailed road map\nfor bilateral cultural cooperation, and a copy of the Hindi version of\nthe booklet &#8220;The History of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya&#8221;,\npublished by the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust, to the State Minister.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High Commission of Sri Lanka<\/strong> <strong>New Delhi.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi. Sri Lanka and India discussed ways in which the two countries could further enhance bilateral cultural relations when Sri Lanka&#8217;s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with Minister of State for External Affairs &amp; Culture of India Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi. The meeting between the High Commissioner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}