Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala will celebrate its Founder’s Day at its headquarters at Kottakkal, near here, on Monday.
E. Sreedharan, principal advisor of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, will inaugurate the celebrations in the morning. Arya Vaidya Sala managing trustee Aryavaidyan P.K. Warrier will lay the foundation for an Ayurveda museum in the name of Arya Vaidya Sala founder Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier.
The museum being set up in 66,215 sq ft in a three-storey building near the Centre for Medicinal Plants and Research (CMPR) at Changuvetty will be a unique one for the age-old Ayurveda medicinal system.
Arya Vaidya Sala officials said that the museum would have the complete evolution of Ayurveda from the time of Indus Valley civilization. They said the museum would showcase the A to Z of Ayurveda. “It’s going to be the pride of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala,” said Arya Vaidya Sala additional chief physician and chief superintendent P. Madhavan Kutty Varier.
T.P. Sreenivasan, former diplomat, will deliver the P.S. Varier Memorial Lecture. He will speak on ‘the world order in 2017 and later.’
Poet P.P. Ramachandran will deliver the Founder’s Day commemorative speech.
Sayed Abid Husain Thangal, MLA, will preside over the function.