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On 26 March 2026, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of India to the Republic of Croatia His Excellency Arun Goel visited the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), on which occasion he donated to NSK valuable titles on his homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Excellency Mr Goel met with the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stri\u010devi\u0107, NSK Library Adviser for International Cooperation Jagoda Ille and NSK Senior Public Relations Adviser Ivana Miro\u0161evi\u0107. The donation, consisting of more than twenty books, has been included in The World in Books<\/em>, NSK\u2019s permanent exhibition featuring titles informing its users of various countries from different perspectives and providing an overview of the Library\u2019s international cooperation-focused ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of India to the Republic of Croatia His Excellency Arun Goel, NSK Library Adviser for International Cooperation Jagoda Ille, NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stri\u010devi\u0107 and NSK Senior Public Relations Adviser Ivana Miro\u0161evi\u0107.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Valuable titles on India for NSK\u2019s users<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition, put on on the Library\u2019s Ground Floor, as the Library\u2019s most frequented area, showcases titles standing as a record of the Library\u2019s contribution to cultural cooperation and academic partnership between Croatia and many countries in Europe and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of India to the Republic of Croatia His Excellency Arun Goel viewing NSK\u2019s The World in Books<\/em> exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to titles on India displayed as part of the exhibition, the Library\u2019s users may also access 254 items in Hindi, India\u2019s most widespread official language, included in the NSK collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSK part of strengthening Croatian-Indian cultural ties<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The meeting participants discussed the cultural exchange agreement signed by the Croatian and Indian governments in June 2025<\/a> as part of whose implementation the two countries shall exchange varied published material of mutual interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initiating the exchange, at the agreement\u2019s signing Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 presented Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the reprint of the first published Sanskrit grammar (Sidharubam seu grammatica samscrdamica<\/em>)<\/a>, which in 1790 was written in Latin by a Croatian scholar and missionary Filip Vesdin (1748-1806)<\/a> and whose original copy<\/a> is preserved as part of the NSK Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of India to the Republic of Croatia His Excellency Arun Goel and NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stri\u010devi\u0107.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 NSK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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