3-day musical show from today

VADODARA, June 4: Sanskar Bharati, a cultural forum, will begin its three-day musical programme here in the city from Friday to mark the cul...

VADODARA, June 4: Sanskar Bharati, a cultural forum, will begin its three-day musical programme here in the city from Friday to mark the culmination of the year-long birth centenary celebrations of legendry musician Pt Omkarnath Thakur.

Addressing reporters on Thursday, forum State-unit president Neelkanth Vaghmare and vice-president Bansidhar Sharma said that the members would take out a kala yatra from Arvindo Ashram to Maharani Kanya Vidyalaya near Sursagar on Friday at 8.30 am. State Culture Minister Mahendrabhai Trivedi would inaugurate the morning musical programme, which would be later resumed in the night featuring forum vocalists. Entry is free.

On Saturday evening, Pt Thakur’s pupils will perform at a concert, while distinguished vocalist Yashvantbua Joshi will perform on Sunday. Hemant Kothari, Manhar Sanghvi, Ranjit Singh Gaekwad, Prabhakar Deskar, Nathrao Nerankar, Rajeshwar Acharya, Balwantrai Bhatt, Gaekwad brothers among others are the singers for the function.

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President of the national body of the forum Shailendranath Shrivastava and general secretary Jagdish Pal said the 17-year old Sanskar Bharati had 1075 centres all over the country and more than 16,000 scholars as members.The forum, they informed the gathering, not only endeavoured to promote Indian classical music, theatre, literature and painting but was also creating a nation-wide network to fight “crude cultural attack from abroad.”

They regretted that India did not have even a national policy to protect and promote Indian culture. Shrivastava said that the forum was also fighting against unchecked sex, violence and brutality depicted in various media in the name of art. Pal said that the forum was also planning to install a statue of Pt Thakur in his native village Jhajgam in Kheda district.

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