Vishwarang 2023 concludes grandly with a promise of returning next year.
Enthralling presentation of popular songs by Sadho Band in cultural session
Honors and 20 prizes were awarded to more than 100 students of the painting competition.
Various aspects of art and literature were discussed in parallel sessions.
Bhopal, 26th December, 23: The four-day long confluence of literature, art and culture came to a colorful end on Sunday. On this occasion, a closing session was organized along with an evening cultural session in which Vishwarang Director Santosh Choubey, Co-Director Dr. Aditi Chaturvedi Vats, Dr. Siddharth Chaturvedi, Mukesh Verma, Registrar of Rabindranath Tagore University Dr. Vijay Singh were present. On this occasion, Vishwarang Director Santosh Choubey expressed his gratitude to everyone and underlined everyone’s cooperation in making the event a success and said that a milestone has been completed in the direction of global promotion of literature and Indian languages and a huge contribution has been made to the event. This gathering of culture and literature has become a unique event working for Indian languages including Hindi, which is being discussed not only in India but in more than 50 countries. He also said that today the four-day Vishwarang is nearing its end but we will “meet again” and this caravan of Vishwarang will continue to grow and illuminate the world with the light of language and literature.
Artists of Sadho Band wowed the audience and won praises from the audience.
Artists Shivang and Mayank of Sadho Band created a lot of buzz in the Vishwarang ceremony on Sunday. In this, Shivang started with Dama Dum Mast Kalandar…. After that, Mayank and Shivang displayed their art from the stage and started presenting popular songs on which a large number of youth danced enthusiastically. The second presentation was of the youth’s favorite song “Teri Diwani…”. After this a bhajan song “Ram Aayenge…” was presented. Amidst the youth enthusiasm, the sequence of songs did not stop here and taking the program forward, “Kali Kali Zulfon…”, “Afreen Afreen…” and “Sanu Ik Pal Chain Na Aawe…” were presented. Meanwhile, adding the color of foreign language to the atmosphere, Mayank mesmerized everyone with the Spanish songs “Senorita…” and “Belachau…”. During this, Jatin was on drums, Vishal on Dholak, Dipanshu on Tabla, Lead GTR Jatin, Bass GTR Mukul, Prince on keyboard, Vishal on flute and Fizz on violin.
Theatrical music and color music in the past
In Purva Rang, drama music was presented by the students of Tagore Drama School and color music was presented by Habib Tanveer by Poonam Tiwari.
Children’s assembly and flute playing in invocation
Earlier, the fourth day was organized as Rangotsav under Vishwarang 2023. In this, the day started with the flute playing by senior All India Radio artist Virendra Kore in Mangalcharan in which he played the music of nature in which cuckoo tunes, Bundelkhandi, Rajasthani, Punjabi etc. folk tunes were presented. Under this, “Pata De Ja Re Gaadiwala…” in Chhattisgarhi and “Jo Taad Likh Dare…” in Punjabi were introduced. Everyone was enthralled by the presentation of classical raga Durga. In the next episode of Mangalacharan, Ram Bhajan and classical music was presented by the children’s group in collaboration with Kshama Chandrawat. The children’s group included Ms. Reva, Kyara, Malvika, Vansh, Swara, Malhar, Kreyansh, Rajveer and others.
In the next session, a special lecture was organized on the topic “Truth of Indian Painting” in which Ashok Bhowmik was present as the keynote speaker. He was in the company of senior litterateurs Santosh Choubey and Liladhar Mandloi. The stage was operated by Vinay Upadhyay, director of Tagore World Art and Culture Center. Keynote speaker Ashok Bhowmik, while talking about painting in his speech, said that creative creation has two aspects, what to create and how to create. There are these two aspects in painting also. Unfortunately in Indian painting, the painter rarely gets the freedom to decide what to create. Further in his address, he discussed in detail the ancient to contemporary eras of painting and shared many examples and told that painting was needed only to establish the veracity of the story.
Vishwarang Director Santosh Choubey said in his statement that any art starts with curiosity and wonder in which context is of utmost importance. Art is not only helpful in entertainment but also in publicity. He further said that one becomes an artist only when kindness, compassion and humanism intervene, otherwise it remains just a means of entertainment or publicity. During this session, Sudhir Patwardhan’s monograph was released. Also the book “Abstraction in Indian Painting” was released. Apart from this, 100 students who participated in the Tagore Chitrakala Painting Competition were honored and 20 students who made the best paintings were awarded.
This was followed by parallel afternoon sessions in which discussions were held on various aspects of the arts.
Speakers expressed their views on the paintings of Geet Govindam
Narmada Prasad Upadhyay, who was presiding over the session organized on the topic “Literature and Art – Meaning of Interaction”, presented the depth of Geet Govindam in a simple manner in front of everyone in the presentation of Geet Govindam. During this, he shared the nuances of painting with everyone. He told that earlier there was no difference between word and form, the ancestors had considered word and form to be the same. There are many examples of which like Ramayana, Bhagwat, but now with changing times we have started seeing differences in words and form. He analyzed all the paintings of Geet Govindam and gave detailed and interesting information about it. He told that Geet Govindam is the journey starting from Radha’s separation till Radha’s being in Krishnamay. During this, he started from Mangal Shloka and told about the paintings of Radha in Kanheli style. He also described the Dashavatar of Krishna. He described the separation of paintings of Madhusudan, Mewar style. All the aspects of Geet Govindam including Kunth Baikunth, Nagar Narayan, Mand Mukund were presented in detail and in detail.During this he also explained the importance of painting. On this occasion, Kumud Sharma, Head of the Hindi Department of Delhi University, said that there is a deep connection between art and literature, both are connected to the concrete form of life. Swarangi Sane, present in the program, said that everything is incomplete without art, Krishna is considered complete with 16 arts, Ram was complete with 12 arts and at present 64 arts are considered. Therefore no literature and art can ever be complete without each other. Literary writer Pankaj Subir, present in the program, said that the movement of literature and art is stopping, in reality the writer is writing about his pain. And he’s walking through a dark room, but he has to take the reader with him. Therefore, the need for windows, skylights and external light and air is very important in the form of art so that the reader can get light and fresh air and does not feel suffocated. The need of art is more important in every literature. Vinay Upadhyay conducted the program.
Discussion on the novel named ‘Seven Rivers Ek Samandar’
In this session of ‘Meet the Writer’ program, Khurshid Alam ji had a conversation with Sahitya Akademi Awardee Nashira Sharma ji. Khurshid Alam ji talked about Nashira ji’s novel named ‘Saat Nadiyan Ek Samandar’. Describing about this novel, Nashira ji said that this novel is based on patriotism and seven characters associated with it. Its characters were discussed in detail in this session. While narrating the content of this novel, Nashira ji said that at a time when society and humanity were being talked about in Hindi literature and politics in Urdu, then she talked about the politics of humanity. His writings were also appreciated in the countries of the Middle East. He also published the same novel under the name ‘Bahishte Zahra’.While sharing her experiences of Iran, Nashira ji said that there too important work is being done in translation of Hindi literature and Sanskrit literature, with the feeling that we are one. Khurshid ji also mentioned Nashira ji’s story ‘Taitaiya’, in the context of this Nashira ji told about her close connection with the artisan class, through this story she has given a poignant but bold portrayal of the artisan class. Along with this, while talking about the story ‘Zinda Muhavare’, he said – “When the language dies, the idioms remain alive in other languages, in the same way people from India reached Pakistan and stayed there as refugees.” While giving his views about contemporary politics, he also remembered his journalism career in Iran and said that in revolution there are populated cemeteries, this he has often mentioned in his articles.
Overseas Indian Composition Lesson
In the thirty-fourth session of Vishwarang, the Pravasi Bharatiya Rachna lesson was conducted in two parts. Manoj Srivastava presided over the program. Got the company of Satras Santosh Choubey ji. In the first part, Shikha Rastogi, Pragati Tipnis, Vandana Mukesh, Rama Rakshak, Sneh Thakur and Rama Sharma recited poetry, while in the second part, Mridul Kirti, Anup Bhargava, Jai Verma, Abhishek Tripathi, Richa Jain and Vinod Dubey recited poetry. Jawahar Karnavat conducted the program. Manoj Srivastava said in his presidential address that poetry is the natural definition of inter-density. Rama Sharma recited Neelkanthini poem, while Sneh Thakur talked about efforts. Vandana ji wrote a poem keeping introduction as the center that your speaking is your introduction. Vinod Dubey, who came from Singapore, recited the poem ‘Ek Mitti Ne Pala Posa Duji Ka Namak Udhar Rahega’. While talking about Advaita, Mridul Kirti said, ‘Open all the embankments of the body’. He also read some poems in Brij language. Anup Bhargava, while singing science poetry, says in Shringaar’s poem, I remember those holy crimes. Jaya Verma recited how unique is the relationship. Richa Jain recited the poem ‘Kyunki Kisi Ne’. Abhishek Tripathi finally read that moving is synonymous with life.
World colored with colors of various arts
On the last day of Vishwarang, the campus of Vishwarang was colorful with the art world of children. A special event was organized in Tagore Auditorium for the children of the city, in which workshops on water colour, graphics and paper mache were organized for the children. At the beginning of this session, the country’s famous painter Ashok Bhowmik, who specially came, taught the children to learn more and more through the workshop. He also said that the knowledge that the children take from here should be used in the future also so that the art learned remains with them. After this the workshop started. Children coming from different areas of the city selected arts as per their interest and started learning the intricacies of that art with their mentor. Mahavir Verma, Mukesh Bijole in paper mache, Rakhi Kumar, Akshar Ameria in water color and Ravindra Shankar Roy, Sonali Bose in graphics provided guidance to the children and made them aware of the nuances of various arts. The children took special advantage of this opportunity and learned various arts from their mentor with full enthusiasm and energy. This event gave colorful colors to the world. During this time, the drama Dharohar was also performed at the beginning of the program. In which the story of human exploitation of nature was told by the theater artists. Children learned important lessons about saving nature from this play. The program was efficiently conducted and the gratitude was expressed by Arjun Singh and coordinated by Dr. Sangeeta Johri, Dr. Moushumi Parihar, Dr. Savitri Parihar. Children registered their presence in large numbers on this occasion.
Many solutions are hidden in the experiences of previous writers
In the Meet the Author session, the audience got a chance to know some aspects of the famous writer Shri Akhilesh ji through Priyam Ankit ji. Through his conversation, Akhilesh ji told the young writer that when we move forward for creation, many difficulties arise, the solution of which should be found from the experiences of earlier writers. He said that before writing we need to read many books, only then we can create a good composition. There will always be a need for a craft for any writing.
