The Cultural Corridor of the G20 Summit in Delhi is really diverse and will be filled with digital exhibits of things and pieces historic and symbolic for the G20 Nations.

A copy of the Magna Carta, the royal charter of rights of the United Kingdom dating to the 12th century, a digitised version of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and the 2.5 million-year-old skull of Mrs Ples from South Africa are some of the things.

Culture ministry officials said that India is displaying a copy of the Ashtadhyayi, the ancient text of philosopher Panini as one of the physical exhibits, along with yoga, Vedic chants etc.

Culture ministry sources said that a 28-feet statue of Natraj will also come up at the venue at Bharat Mandapam, the highest in the world and that the exhibition of the cultural corridor will be available for the public to see in the next three months.

The Indian government had asked for five different categories of exhibits, which included a physical object of cultural significance from each country, an iconic digital masterpiece, a digital representation of intangible cultural heritage as well as of natural heritage, and an artefact related to the nation's democratic tradition. For the cultural and natural heritage categories, countries can send in up to five submissions.

From the fifth category, the ministry will curate an exhibition called 'India as Mother of Democracy' which the ministry said will celebrate India's democratic traditions dating back to 5,000 years. For this, the United States sent in a copy of the Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights 1776-1791) while France sent a copy of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen National Assembly (France, 1789). South Korea sent a poster of the first democratic general election held in May 1948. From India, a section of the Rig Veda will be in the exhibition. Ministry officials said that China has not sent in any exhibit in this category.

Source: DeccanHerald