External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar inaugurated 'Nirmayat: Healing and Wellbeing in South Asian Texts and Practices' at the India International Centre in New Delhi, praising the Samhita Initiative for preserving and documenting manuscript traditions. He highlighted traditional medical knowledge's civilizational insights, urged digitisation, cataloguing and scholarly collaboration, and noted artificial intelligence's potential to restore and broaden access to manuscripts.
