Guwahati, Feb 16 : The 36th Karbi Youth Festival got under way at Taralangso, Diphu with a five-day programme today. Additional Chief Secretary of West Bengal Pawan Singh Engti inaugurated the festival at a function this evening in the presence of thousands of people.
Ranjan Engti, chief coordinator of the festival, the largest of the ethnic festivals of Northeast India, said that popular artistes like Angaraj Mahanta, former MP Jayanta Rongpi, former MLA Holi Ram Terang, Joint Director of Health Services Dr PC Deori and chiefs of the Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) and United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) were also present at the inaugural session.
Over 3,000 artistes from various parts of the country, besides artistes belonging to the 22 ethnic groups of Karbi Anglong district, were also present at the inaugural function.
The artistes from different parts of the country included those from West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, National School of Drama, Shanti Niketan, folk musicians from Jharkhand and theatre artistes from Jaipur. Government of Assam artistes were also present at the inaugural function.
All these artistes will take part in the festival programs during the next four days, Engti said.
Other sources in the organizing committee told this newspaper that theatre artistes and painters from various parts of the country like Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland and Guwahati are camping at Diphu for the past one month in connection with the festival. They are conducting workshops in theatre and paintings involving the local youths in connection with the festival.
The Taralangso Theatre Jamboree is also conducting a theatre workshop since February 6 and this will continue till February 19. The organizing committee of the festival is also holding a four-day cinema festival on the occasion, from tomorrow, in association with the Assam Cine Society, said the sources.
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