Excelsior Correspondent
Aurangabad, Feb 14: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and languages sponsored artists enthralled the audience at Kalagram at Aurangabad in a three-day program jointly organized by West Zone Cultural Centre,Udaipur, Cultural Affairs,Maharashtra, South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur, Tourism Development Corporation, Maharashtra and Local Administation, Aurangabad.
On inaugural day Uma Kant Dangat, Divisional Commissioner, Aurangabad was the chief guest, Prakash Mahajan, Municipal Commissioner, Aurangabad, Ajay Ambekar, Director, Cultural Affairs, Maharashtra and Dr Arvinder Singh Amn, Additional Secretary, J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages were guests of Honour. Layak Hussain, programme organizer, West Zone Cultural Centre, Udaipur was also present on the presidium.
While speaking on the occasion, Uma Kant said that India is worldly popular as of diverse culture and unity in diversity is the real identity of India. He said that this festival of various cultural representations from Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Aurangabad succeeded in giving the message of oneness.
Prakash Mahajan, while giving his remarks, complimented the participating States including Jammu and Kashmir for their spell bound performances and said that this festival helps to unite and spread the message of brotherhood and national integration.
In this mega festival the artists of Jammu and Kashmir perf ormed Rouf (Kashmiri), Jagrna (Dogri), Geetru (Dogri). Jabro (Ladakhi), Kud (Dogri), Dhammali (Kashmiri), Band Pather (Kashmiri), Chhajja (Dogri), Dastaan (Kashmiri), Jeenda (Pahari), Mahiya (Gojri). All the performances were highly appreciated and well received with great applause in the inaugural day.
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