Synopsis Culture in its highest form pre-supposes the practical paradigm of caring. India and Australia, apart from cricket and the cattle place, also share an infinite cultural diversity. And both are moving towards the realization of a convergence of various cultural segments of their respective populace, wherein the significant parts make an equally significant whole. Ours jointly has been the endeavour to attain the pinnacle of a Vernacular Republic, a global village or Visvagram. And the present book, after the seminar, containing as it is the seminar papers, is a second step and not a leap toward the realization of a participatory Universe. May it be the planting of a single, little foot of Lord Vamana!