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Established with the assistanse of the Embassy of India in Ukraine

Center of Indian Culture

promotion and support of common cultural projects *

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Alexandra Lochman

My passion for Indian culture began with my childhood, when, along with my parents, I saw "City and Guitou" and other films. All started from the films, and the final attraction and spiritual affinity was formed at the end of the school, when internally convinced that yoga was the only way for me to improve myself. Interest in Indian philosophy subsequently influenced my choice of specialty at the University - Hindi language and Hindi translation. That is, I am an indologist in the specialty, I studied at the Taras Shevchenko University in 2013-2018. After the third year of baccalaureate (2016-2017), I had the opportunity to go to a language training at the Hindu Institute of Hindi (Kendriya Hindi Sansthan) in Delhi, India, where I received a high-level diploma in Hindi language and literature. During the language training I repeatedly thought the idea of ​​creating such a place in Kiev or Ukraine, where all the admirers of Indian culture could come and study various disciplines from the best teachers. But as stated in the famous Slaskie Slotka, "deer will never fall into the sleeping lion's mouth", so when I returned to Ukraine I was invited to join the project of creating an Indian Cultural Center, I immediately agreed. And I found it myself.

I am currently introducing the Basic Sanskrit course, initiated by Mr. Ambassador Manojem Kumar Bharti of India, at the Embassy of India in Ukraine, and running the Sanskrit Club blog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sanskrit.emb.ua/messages/, and I also translate textbooks for our course and organize various video, audio and text materials for the possibility of creating interactive Sanskrit lessons. The project of the Sanskrit Club proved to be successful, so now we are starting to work two more departments of our course - in Kharkov (the teacher Alexei Tsukanov) and the Dnipro (teacher Taras Protasov).

As the specialty of my main language is Hindi itself, in parallel with the Sanskrit Club, I run the Hindi factory & Sanskrit project, where we, together with students, develop Hindi study tools with the help of films and the translation of the necessary dictionaries in the Ukrainian language. In my plans for textbooks and other auxiliary teaching materials, the organization of a thorough study of the Hindi literature and the translation of the most prominent works.

But as in medicine it is impossible to study only one part of the body, without its connection with other parts, it is also impossible to study Sanskrit and not to indulge in Indian classical dance and music, since they are all interconnected. Thus, now my interest has expanded considerably and I have an incredible opportunity to enjoy classes from these disciplines at the teachers of our center. In addition to Indian culture, I really enjoy nature, including hiking, traveling in general, as well as theater; I am actively interested in environmental issues.

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City: Kyiv

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