Asserting that manuscripts are "not merely relics of the past, but a guiding light for the future", a global conference on Saturday (September 13, 2025) adopted the New Delhi Declaration to bolster efforts to preserve, digitise and disseminate knowledge embedded in them.
The Declaration was adopted on the closing day of the three-day 'Gyan Bharatam' conference on India's manuscript heritage, hosted at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
The New Delhi Declaration resolved that manuscripts are “living memory of a nation, and foundation of its civilisational identity”.
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India has one of the richest collections of ancient manuscripts in the world, with nearly 10 million texts that hold the country's traditional knowledge and cultural heritage.
