Arts and Culture Crusader

Dr Kiran Seth, 73 year old Founder of SPIC MACAY, Padma Shri awardee and former Professor Emeritus at IIT Delhi is cycling from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to promote cycling, Indian heritage and Mahatma Gandhi’s message. He started cycling on 15 August 2022 from Srinagar and is expected to reach Kanyakumari 6 months later on 14 February 2023. On the way, he meets students, faculty, principals, educationists, ministers, donors, media to spread his message. He will share the 45 years of SPIC MACAY, his life’s journey and his cycling journey from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to inspire the youth of India.

Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) is a 45-year old nationwide, non-political, people’s movement and a registered society that has been organising programmes of classical music & dance, folk music & dance, meditation, yoga, screenings, talks by eminent persons, heritage walks, craft workshops inside school and college campuses to inspire students to take an active interest in Indian heritage. Pre-Covid, volunteers from all walks of life organised over 5000 programmes every year in over 800 towns in India and abroad. During Covid, they organised more than 1000 online programmes to fulfill SPIC MACAY’s core purpose “Have every child experience the inspiration and mysticism embodied in Indian and World heritage”.