You are Rushikesh/ Ranjana Pandey, the head of Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi. Recently you read an advertisement in a newspaper that Indian Airlines is offering reduction in fares for educational groups. Write a letter to the Indian Airlines inquiring about reduction in fares and other relevant details.
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new delhi: history is being turned on its head. but that's just the tip of the revisionist agenda. what's being done to the academic institutes run by the hrd ministry will have more far-reaching effects. research projects, seminars, publications are all aimed at rediscovering 'bharat ka ancient gaurav'. the sunday times takes a look at the joshi effect on two premier institutes. indian council of historical research, delhi:the ichr currently has nine projects underway worth a total of rs 93.25 lakh, sanctioned in the course of one year. five of them worth rs 53.24 lakh have been sanctioned to the indian archaeological society, an institute in delhi headed by archaeologist s p gupta, author of the indus-saraswati civilisation. and all of them propose to excavate india's ancient past. consider them: atlas of the indus saraswati civilisation, rs 20 lakh. archeological research methodology, rs 9 lakhs. historical & archaeological work of parsis/zorashtrian religious places of importance in western india, rs 6.42 lakh. salvaging & conserving the damaged source material of history & archaeology in gujarat, rs 3 lakh, indian archaeological society greek sources in ancient india, rs 2 lakh. indian society for greek & roman studies, bareilly archaeology & tradition: a study of indo-european & indo-aryan languages and archaeology, rs 16 lakh, center for the study of indian tradition, madhuvani (bihar) the documentation of british census policy 1871-1941, rs 12 lakh, himachal university, shimla potteries in ancient & medieval india, rs 10 lakh needless to say, some scholars feel there is a lot that is amiss in the ichr. for the first time in its 30 years of existence, the institute has granted funds to outside institutions for projects initiated by it. but k n dixit, secretary general, ias sees nothing wrong in ichr's unprecedented largesse to his institute. "