The Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS), India as an autonomous forum for more than a decade has been probing into history, culture, identity, and variance of cultural hemisphere of fascinating India and its adjoining regions. In order to transpire how soft power is being used as an important tool to strengthen the country’s relation with its neighbours and coastal allies with whom the country shares its civilization linkages, security and socio-economic ties, the institute has designed and organized a 10 Day Certificate Course work on “Indian Soft Power and Practices” in Collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research(ICSSR) at the RTC, ICCR, Kolkata from 2nd to 11th January, 2023.

The course work was so structured thatit traced the cultural commonalities between India and its abutting nations. The course also detailed about some of the diverse issues like ethnicity, identity and civilization link-ups affecting interstate relationship between India and adjoining regions. Along with academicians, researchers, post graduate students multi-sectoral stakeholders with interests