Bijender Goel, former special representative to Jharkhand government, has been nominated as the Founding President of the Indian Delphic Council to head the Indian movement.

Goel was also the chairman of the National Council on Disaster management, member of governing council of Bir Tikendrajit University, Manipur and known for introducing earthquake onsite early warning technology in South Asia.

He is also an advisor of the South Asian Affairs of the International Delphic Council (IDC), informed a statement from IDC, which is a voluntary, not-for-profit, nonpolitical, nonreligious global organization that works to foster harmony amongst people through engagements in the various arts forms and the cultural identities that manifest them, through the Delphic Games.

Goel in a statement said that he plans to take this movement to every artist, art lover, various stakeholders and government bodies in India by promoting all category of arts. “Apart from Delphic Games at the international level, the INDC will organise many festivals, events, platforms in India,” it added.

The ancient history of the Delphic Games traces its roots back to Delphi in Greece 2500 years ago as the twin-sister of the Olympic Games. The Delphic Games are to Arts & Cultures what Olympic Games are to physical sports.

While the Delphic Games of the Modern Era were revived in 1994, the Olympic Games were revived in 1894. Since revival, the Delphic Games have been hosted in Georgia, Russia, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Germany and South Africa while Delphic Summits, Delphic Art Wall initiatives and other festivals of cultural significance have been organised elsewhere in the world.

International Institutions like UNESCO, Council of Europe, ASEAN among others have endorsed the various editions of the Delphic Games in the past.

World leaders including Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Mikhail Gorbachev (erstwhile USSR), Helmut Kohl (Germany), Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia) as well as celebrated musicians, painters, academicians, historians, arts & culture revivalists and the likes have supported the Delphic Games. India has participated in three editions of the Delphic Games in various countries and even won gold and silver medals in South Korea.