Sharma inaugurates `Deep Dharohar’

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New Delhi : Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent charge) for Culture, inaugurated “Deep Dharohar” organized by the Ministry of Culture here on October 1, 2017.  The festival was inaugurated by the lighting of 1,000 diyas by the participating artists and artisans and children from organisations like the CCRT, SAPNA Prayas and Kailash Satyarthi’s foundation, to the beat of pakhawajs, nagadas, dhols etc.

The Minister also released a book ‘Living Traditions, Tribal and Folk Paintings of India’ published under the matrix of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ by the Cultural Mapping team of the Ministry of Culture and Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT). The book celebrates the rich living traditions of tribal and folk art of India, according to a PIB release.

To reclaim the lost classical and folk traditions of Deepawali and with objective of transmitting, promoting and conserving India’s diverse heritage, Ministry of Culture has organized this festival at Matighar grounds at Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts at Janpath, New Delhi, from October 13-17, 2017.

To reclaim the lost classical and folk traditions of Deepawali and with objective of transmitting, promoting and conserving India’s diverse heritage, Ministry of Culture has organized this festival at the Matighar grounds at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts at Janpath, New Delhi between October 13-17 October 2017. The festival is drawing upon the rich repository of red, grey and black ware potters, reed (sikki) artisans, rural sculptors, weavers, Madhubani, Gond, Phad and Pattachitra artists, lacquer workers, bell-metal and bamboo artisans is also being projected as part of Paryatan Parv being organised by Ministry of Tourism.