Dr. Vijay Vasudev Bedekar

Mr. Vijay Vasudev Bedekar
Basically he is a post independent product.

A Thaneite born and brought up in Thane, loves to stay in Thane. He is a Doctor by profession since past 25 years. His father, Mr. Vasudev Bedekar, too is a doctor since 1953. Bedekar Hospital is 50 Years old, one of the oldest hospitals in Thane. Mr. Bedekar is enjoying his work as practitioner in the field. He also owns the site http://www.orientalthane.com

On Internet?
"Concept of website is new, I used to take advantage of modernity, this is the media where you can communicate irrespective of geographical constrains and information is available 24 hours"

On Oriental Study..
Study of ancient history of India is called as Indology, locally know as bharatshastra. So study of ancient civilization of eastern region is called as oriental studies. 'We are doing study on Indian Culture, Sanskrit language' he added.

On Oriental Institute..
Further more he said, "In 1982, all like-minded people came together and has been working for this project. We started national seminar in year 1982, accordingly we have 25th Seminar this December, and the subject is 'Bio revolution and Hinduism'. Subject has been taken from Grammar to Tanta, from Agriculture to Education. Great Scholar from Jammu to Kanyakumari attends this seminar and also a common person has taken lots of advantage from the seminar." "Apart from Seminars we conduct exhibitions on various subject like Encyclopedia, manuscripts, etc"

"We have also conducted tours; taking one state as a subject we see all historical important places. So the tour is not only tourism, but also a mean to get information on culture, in short a ' cultural tourism'. This tour is done by group of all type of professionals like doctors, engineers, businesspersons, consultants, journalists, so overall it's very economical and highly informative." "We have a unique Library which haves almost 25,000 books. Books related to Indian Culture, Encyclopedias. We also have 3000 manuscripts, most of them are from western coast of konkan on astronomy, mathematics, etc"

On orientalthane.com
"Well all we do in project that information is available at our site. People from all over the world are visiting this site and taking information from our site. Lots of improvements is to be done, but with relative to human and financial resources it will be done."

His Message
"In spite of all problems, Mr. Chandrashekar proved the possibilities. We are very lucky as lots of amenities are available in Thane and we have to still go improving on it. I am very positive Thane will still improve more and will be still better place to be at. Intellectuals should come together and work for better environment and system."

As told to Thaneweb.com