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Golden jubilee of Ganjam Kala Parishad

Staff Reporter

BERHAMPUR: Ten-day long golden jubilee festival of Ganjam Kala Parishad was inaugurated in the city on Saturday evening.

The Ganjam Kala Parishad has till now played a pivotal role in propagation of Odissi dance and music, classical music and stage movement in south Orissa and Oriya-dominated areas in adjoining Andhra Pradesh. This organisation had its humble beginning in 1954 to keep alive the Oriyan art forms in south Orissa through an organisation named Netaji Students' Club. Students' got together to practise and perform Odissi music and dance to general public.

Cultural activists

With time the initiators of this movement like Raj Govind Bose and Bholanath Panda felt that this cultural organisation should include people from all spheres.

On Feb 1, 1957 the Netaji Students' Club gave way to the formation of Ganjam Kala Parishad with active participation of cultural activists of south Orissa. Its first president was H. K. Ghosh, the then Collector of Ganjam. Till now it has been continuing with its effort to keep alive Oriya culture and tradition in Oriya areas in adjoining States through performances of Odissi music, Odissi dance and Oriya plays. It has produced several noted artists of the State.

Rehearsals

The students and members of this organisation have been busy rehearsing for this 10-day cultural festival since more than a month.

Till Saturday morning the campus of Ganjam Kala Parishad was resounding with footsteps of Odissi dancers and `alaaps' of budding and veteran Odissi classical singers rehearsing for the show.

This cultural festival would continue till April 23 and would have seminars on Oriya literature and cultural shows depicting the classical and folk art forms of Orissa.

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