Abai Day - August 10 - was widely celebrated not only in Kazakhstan, but all over the world. The online format gave all the events a special character, all participants felt a sense of unity and spiritual closeness, despite the huge distances separating them.
Thanks to the activities of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in India and the Embassy of India in Kazakhstan, cultural ties are expanding, within the framework of which the creative heritage of our great poet, thinker and philosopher is popularized in India. One of the largest streets in Delhi, the capital of India, is named after Abay. With the assistance of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), a collection of works by Abai was published in Hindi, containing 40 poems and 45 words of edification. The book is titled "Shabd manjusha" which means "Treasury of Words". The publication is preceded by forewords from the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, as well as from the Indian ambassador to Kazakhstan, Prabhat Kumar. On Abai Day, an online presentation of this book took place, in which ICCR General Director Dinesh Patnaik, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to India Yerlan Alimbayev (by the way, a graduate of the Indian branch of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of our university!), Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan Prabhat Kumar, Director of the Indian Cultural center them. Swami Vivekananda Sanjay Garg, teachers of the Department of Near East and South Asia, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Iskakova Z.E. and Kokeeva D.M., as well as other officials. In the speeches of the participants of the online event, mutual congratulations on the Day of Abai were sounded, Abai's contribution to world civilization was talked about and, of course, Abai's poems were read. The Indian participants noted that the spiritual heritage of Abay is the property of not only the Kazakh people, but of all mankind. After all, his work is permeated with the ideas of humanism and enlightenment, kindness and justice, serving the people and the prevalence of the national over the personal.
