{"id":14165,"date":"2022-04-05T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/?p=14165"},"modified":"2022-04-05T10:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:05:53","slug":"mr-bijender-goel-founder-of-modern-pythian-games-is-all-set-to-address-and-present-the-modern-pythian-games-to-the-world-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/?p=14165","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Bijender Goel, Founder of Modern Pythian Games, is all set to address and present the Modern Pythian Games to the world for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greekboston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pythian-Games.jpg\" alt=\"Pythian Games - Sacred Competition of Ancient Greece\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>NEW DELHI, 4th April 2022<br>Mr. Bijender Goel, Founder of Modern Pythian Games, is all set to address and<br>present the Modern Pythian Games to the world for the first time at the annual<br>general meeting of the Delphi Economic Forum at Delphi, Greece on April 7,<br>2022.<br>Delphi Economic Forum, Athens, Greece, has invited Mr. Goel, in his official<br>capacity as the founder of the Modern Pythian Games, to address their annual<br>general meeting as the keynote speaker, to be held from April 6\u20139, 2022, at Delphi, Greece (origin of the Pythian Games). This annual general meeting of the<br>Delphi Economic Forum is being held under the auspices of His Excellenc<br>the President of the Hellenic Republic of Greece, who opens the forum on the<br>first day and is addressed by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic of Greece. Mr. Dalip Singh, IAS, former Chief Election Commissioner of<br>Haryana and President of the Pythian Council of India, will accompany Mr.<br>Goel during his 9-day visit.<br>Before their departure, Mr. Goel and Mr. Dalip Singh called upon Mr. Govind<br>Mohan, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, and<br>briefed him about the developments. They shall meet the Indian Ambassador<br>there in Greece during their visit to brief him on the Pythian Games.<br>Mr. Bijender Goel said that it is a great moment when modern Pythian Games<br>inspired by the Greek history of ancient Pythian Games are being resurrected in<br>India. I was proud when Delphi Economic Forum recognised this development<br>and invited us to present the concept of Modern Pythian Games to the world and<br>created a special session on this in their meeting. I shall be speaking on the topic<br>of how Pythian Games can play an important role in the global economy in a<br>post-COVID scenario, and how they can play an important role in the global<br>economy and contribute to maintaining peace and harmony through arts and<br>culture.<br>The Pythian Games are to art and culture what the Olympics are to physical<br>sports, and they were held in parallel with the Olympics in ancient Greece. The<br>Pythian Games were one of Delphi&#8217;s four Pan-Hellenic Games and were in<br>existence prior to 582 B.C. and were discontinued in 394 A.D. along with the<br>Olympics and other Pan-Hellenic Games. There is evidence that Greek artists<br>competed each year in accordance with the Delphi Peace Agreement. Delphi&#8217;s<br>history shows a strong commitment to art, culture, tradition, and education.<br>Baron Pierre de Coubertin reintroduced the Olympic Games in 1894 and wanted<br>to revive the Pythian Games too. Instead of a resurrection of these games, he<br>incorporated artistic competitions into the Olympics, which were modelled after<br>Registered Office:<br>3310-B\/2 Ranjit Nagar, Old Pusa Gate,<br>South Patel Nagar, New Delhi-11008<br>INDIA<br>Tel: (+91) (11) 45520883<br>Email: pythiangames22@gmail.com<br>info@pythiangames.org<br>website: www.pythiangames.org<br>Mr. Bijender GOEL<br>Founder- Modern Pythian Games<br>Managing Trustee- Delphic India Trust<br>Tel.: (+91) 8447225005<br>ancient Pythian games. Individuals from every country participated in music,<br>literature, architecture, and artwork between 1912 and 1948. The International<br>Olympic Committee (IOC) discontinued such competitions in 1954.<br>Mr. Goel said that &#8220;the arts and culture have long been a power that links not<br>only the heart and soul, but entire societies and nations together, but our artisans<br>are still struggling for opportunities and don&#8217;t have the right platform to<br>showcase their work, despite it being a multibillion-dollar industry that is today<br>scattered into an unorganised sector. We need to make the arts and culture<br>industry more organized. This can only be done with the help of the multi-level<br>organisational approach of the modern Pythian Games.<br>We have given legal shape to the International Pythian Council as a non-profit,<br>non-political, and non-religious organization, and it will take shape soon as the<br>supreme authority of the global Pythian Games. It is set to create history by<br>resurrecting the Modern Pythian Games of Arts and Culture with the backing of<br>over 80 nations, soon from Delphi, Greece. This visit will play a very important<br>role in finalising the dates and the grand revival ceremony.<br>Mr. Goel also said that the expert technical committee of the Ministry of<br>Culture, Government of India, has found &#8220;Pythian Games&#8221; relevant in an official<br>communication and asked for additional information.<br>The Pythian Games will be held every four years, and any national or state<br>council should be able to bid for them with the assistance of their governments<br>in order to host them. The various events have been created in different art<br>categories and the games, festivals, and engagements will take place in each of<br>the eight primary creative fields: musical arts, performing arts, visual arts, social<br>and traditional arts, language and literary arts, architecture and ecology, robotics<br>and digital arts, martial arts, entertainment games, adventure games, traditional<br>games, and support in reviving dying art traditions. The sentiments from the<br>Pythian Games are transforming into a global movement to support artisans, and<br>that&#8217;s what our Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, desired in his<br>recent speech on &#8220;MAN KI BAAT&#8221;.<br>(Bijender Goel)<br>Founder,<br>Modern Pythian Games<br>Mobile: +91 844722500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 4th April 2022Mr. Bijender Goel, Founder of Modern Pythian Games, is all set to address andpresent the Modern Pythian Games to the world for the first time at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[99,116,115],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14167,"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14165\/revisions\/14167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maghreb-observateur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}