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ART AND CULTURE - June 2019

Jun 2019

Aug 18, 2019

President Kovind Inaugurates Bunker Museum At Mumbai Raj Bhavan

President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the underground Bunker Museum at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.
The 15,000 square feet underground bunker museum has virtual reality booths in which visitors can "time travel" to the 19th century.
The bunker was created in the 19th century to fire cannons at approaching enemy ships.
Another section depicts the history of Raj Bhavan.
The museum will be opened for the general public with an online booking facility later in 2019.
President Kovind was shown around the exhibition and given an audio visual experience of the history of Raj Bhavan at a virtual reality booth.
Earlier, he unveiled the foundation stone for the proposed reconstruction of Jal Bhushan, the Governor's office-cum-residential building.
Jal Bhushan has a history of nearly 200 years, and the present building has undergone several modifications and renovations.

Aug 11, 2019

Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum In Punjab Sets Record

The Virasat-e-Khalsa museum in Punjab's Anandpur Sahib town is all set to find a place in the Asia Book of Records for becoming the most visited museum in the Indian sub-continent on a single day.
The Asia Book of Records has confirmed the record of 'maximum footfall in a museum in a day' in the name of Virasat-e-Khalsa, which will feature in the next edition of the Asia Book of Records.
The museum had witnessed a record footfall of 20,569 visitors on a single day on March 20, 2019 becoming the most visited museum in the Indian sub-continent on a single day.

Aug 08, 2019

J&K's 'Machail Mata Yatra' suspended due to security reasons

The 43-day-long 'Machail Mata Yatra' in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir was suspended due to security reasons.
Authorities have asked people not to start the yatra and those on the way should leave and get back.
The yatra commenced on July 25, 2019 and was scheduled to end on September 5, 2019.
Thousands of devotees from across the country visit the scenic Paddar valley, also famous for its sapphire mines, during the yatra and pay obeisance at the holy shrine of goddess Durga in Machail village of Kishtwar after trekking a 30-km arduous route.

Lalit Kala Akademi celebrated its 65th Foundation Day

Lalit Kala Akademi celebrated its 65th Foundation Day on August 5th, 2019. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Culture & Tourism inaugurated the celebrations in New Delhi.
Lalit Kala Akademi or National Academy of Art was established in New Delhi in 1954 by the government to promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, in and outside the country.
The Academy provides scholarships, fellowship programmes and organizes art-related exhibitions in India and overseas. The artwork and painting exhibitions will be open for public till the 12th of August 2019.

BIS to set up Pashmina testing centre in Leh

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Director General Ms. Surina Rajan said that BIS would set up a Pashmina testing centre in Leh, in partnership with the lab of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh.
'Drive for Pashmina', a Motor bike expedition to create awareness and promote Pashmina is flagged by the Hill council CEC Gyal P Wangyal and BIS DG Surina Rajan. The expedition was flagged off by the Ladakh MP from Delhi.

Jul 05, 2019

Puri Rath Yatra 2019

Millions of devotees gathered in Puri for the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath amid heightened security as the nine-day annual celebrations began in Odisha's temple town.
The chariots of Lord Jagannath, his elder brother Lord Balabhadra and younger sister Devi Subhadra were pulled by the devotees on the streets called Badadanda as people played drums, trumpets and sang devotional songs.
Devotees pulled the chariots from Ratha Khala or the construction site and then parked them outside the lion's gate for the commencement of the rituals for the yatra.
The first chariot or Nandighosa to reach lion's gate was that of Lord Jagannath, followed by Devi Subhadra's Devadala and at last Lord Balabhadra's Taladhwaja.

Jun 15, 2019

Project to Document Bengali Theatre in city

When Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore visited Delhi in 1932, the ladies of 'Sen bari' (the family of the famous Dr Hem Chandra Sen) presented a play, 'Balmik Pratibha' for him, in what is believed to be the first instance of a Bengali play being staged in Delhi.
Since then, Bengali theatre in Delhi has grown into a genre of its own. The Chittaranjan Parkbased socio-cultural platform Shapno Ekhon (loosely translated as 'dreaming now'), in collaboration with historians Narayani Gupta and Swapna Liddle, has started a project to document and archive the close to one-hundred-year-old history of Bengali theatre in Delhi.
Begun on May 16 this year, 'Bengali theatre in Delhi — A Journey in Time' aims to features, styles, and content unique to Delhi.
At present, there are around 30 groups engaged in practising Bengali theatre in the city.
'Ishhworer khoje' (Waiting for God) directed by Harihar Bhattacharya, 'Lenin er daak' (The Call of Lenin) by the group Dhumketu, and Manusher Odhikar (The Rights of Humankind) directed by Shakti Mukherjee are a few among the many plays created by playwrights of Delhi in original style and form.
The project, which hopes to take advantage of this scattered movement and helm it into something tangible and substantive, is expected to be completed in three years and will be compiled in the form of multiple publications, an archive of oral history accounts, an anthology of plays in multiple volumes written by playwrights of Delhi, and a database of audio-visual material of plays by practitioners in Delhi.

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