Cultural Streams International

A.N.'Shen' Sengupta

Chairman & President

Welcome to this website

Cultural Streams International is dedicated to BRINGING CULTURES 2GETHER NOW, through bringing you knowledge and insight into cultures past and present from all over the world and opening up a forum for expressing all the significant and interesting aspects of your own culture as well as others you are familiar with.

Through published submissions from you and your friends, this website is designed to be a vast repository on culture where anyone, junior and senior, can have their say and also learn about how others live, work and enjoy life together.

You, my friend, are very important to fulfilling this mission. Illustrated narrations of your culture and those of our friends from all over the world, can become precious additions to this website. We invite you to open the website, browse it, and start writing all that you ever wanted others to know about your own very noble culture and send them to us for publishing.

Motto: Bringing Cultures 2gether Now

Vision

Cultural Streams International has been founded to advance the cause of mutual understanding and respect for the cultural streams generated by the many peoples from around the globe. It is to facilitate minimization or eradication of potential misgivings or gaps in communication between the many peoples from around the globe and help obtain global cultural awareness for all those who are presently or potentially active, like the younger generation, in the global arena, for various purposes like business, humanitarian causes, travel, research, and cultural pursuits. The aim is that such awareness will make people realize better that others are like them too, with their own cultural norms, their strengths and weaknesses, their concerns and aspirations, and will enable all to co-operate with and to assist each other for the cause of mutual cultural enhancement and for the benefit of all engaged in various pursuits in the global arena.

Mission: Cultural Streams International is seeking to

l Assemble cultural information, past, present and forecasted future, pertaining to all peoples around the world.

l Disseminate this information to all interested individuals and organizations.

l Provide opportunities for people of various cultural backgrounds to dialogue on-line through the Internet, and face-to-face through seminars, and conventions, cultural events, visits and publications.

l Provide opportunities for conducting research into the various cultures of the world.

l Work with educational institutions, private corporations, government, and non-governmental agencies directly involved in global cultural understanding, and in the development of informative resources for others to use.

l Become a permanent institution, providing generations to come with the knowledge needed in support of making this world an ever-better place to live in for all humanity.

Values

l Uphold the spirit of the positive cultural aspects of all the peoples

l Shun all potentially negative or divisive aspects and scrupulously avoid making any value judgment on any aspect of any culture.

l Honor the trust placed on Cultural Streams International by all those who are involved, directly or indirectly, by adhering to the 'Mission' and 'Vision' of the organization, through the highest level of transparency in all aspects of its functioning, including all financial matters.

l Reach out as widely as possible to include participation of as many cultural streams from around the world.

l Adhere to proper financial discipline; balance activities and expenses commensurate with financial capabilities.

l Work closely with various interested groups with international cultural interest and develop specific information streams within the scope of the general framework of the organization.

l Strive to make the organization such that it is sustained as a valuable institution for generations to come toward the cause of making this world an ever better place to live for all humanity.