By M.M. Khanna - Travel Video TV - U.S.A.Monday, April 16, 2007
Marked with fanfare, festive celebrations, cultural pageantry and artistic activities, the three-day Festival of Chandigarh on Baisakhi today concluded with a famous and renowned play on the Punjabi sufi poet Bulley Shah [d. 1757], entitlted, “Bullah” staged by Pakistan-based Madeeha Gauhar and her troupe. The play drew great appreciation from the spectators.
The festival was inaugurated at Sukhna Lake by the Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Chandigarh, Gen. (Retd.) S. F.Rodrigues on April 13. It got off with a colourful start at Sukhna Lake with the inauguration of a photo exhibition put up by Pradeep Mahajan at the Lake by the Governor.
The colourful performances of Bhangra & Giddha, beating of drums, display of distinctive art forms by the artistes from different States of the Country made the event a joyous& memorable occasion for thousands of spectators.
A Punjabi Folk Songs programme by famous Artists Dolly Guleria and Satwinder Bugga was also hosted at Sukhna Lake after on April 13. A Food Festival, which was organized at Sukhna Lake on all the three evenings, was much appreciated by the visitors and the tourists.The visitors/ Foreign Tourists to the Lake also enjoyed Folk Music and Dance programmes by cultural artistes on all three evenings.
The Musical programme by Archana Bhargava and group at Sukhna Lake and a Musical Performance by famous Pakistani Artist Sher Mian Dad Khan at Shanti Kunj on April 14 drew the attention of Sufi music lovers.
The audience was spell-bound with the soulful Sufi performance of Sher Mian Dad Khan.
The School bands also played at Sukhna Lake on Saturday evening. A Plaza Carnival was also organized at Sector 17, Plaza on the same day.
Distinguished and highly energetic Kathak exponent, V. Anuradha Singh enthralled the audience with her performance and won appreciation from the stalwarts of Indian Classical music on the concluding day. V. Anuradha Singh, with her enchanting stage presence, earned acclamation for her intense, sensitive and gracefulKathak dance presentations.
Police Band also performed at Sukhna Lake on the same day.
Besides this, the beautifully illuminated buildings of Chandigarh wore a bridal look and made the celebrations a memorable event.
UT Home Secretary, Mr. Krishna Mohan said that the three-day festival was organized for the first time by Chandigarh Administration to celebrate the major festival of Baisakhi and this would be celebrated every year on a bigger scale.
[picture: The giant hand in metal sheet rises 26 meters (85 feet) from a sunken trench and rotates freely in the wind from a high concrete pedestal, conveying the symbolic message "Open to give, open to receive". Conspicuous by its scale, the Open Hand is the official emblem of the city. The design of this emblem as of the monument was conceived entirely by Le Corbusier (d. 1965). There is probably no city emblem in the world quite like this one. 'Open to give and open to receive' presumes an open mind. This notion as also the emblem, celebrates the give and take of ideas, as opposed to commemorating personalities.
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