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‘India One’ festival begins tomorrow

KOLLAM: Chief Justice of India Justice K.G. Balakrishnan will present the V. Gangadharan Memorial Trust Award for the ‘Best modern industrialist’ from Kerala to B. Ravi Pillai at a function to be held at the Swaralaya Open Air Auditorium here on Saturday.

The function will be followed by a fusion music programme by the World Philharmonic Orchestra led by violin maestro L. Subramaniyam and playback singer Kavita Krishnamoorthy. The orchestra comprises 55 musicians.

The programme is being organised by the Kadappakada Sports Club and Swaralaya.

Club president Thengamam Balakrishnan and secretary R.S. Babu told mediapersons on Thursday that the award function will be addressed by Ministers P.K. Gurudasan and C. Divakaran.

The music programme is part of the “India One” festival organised by the club to spread awareness against terrorism. Between January 10 and January 31, six such programmes will be held at the venue.

The finale will be led by K.J. Yesudas. At the function Mr. Yesudas will present the KPAC Sulochana Memorial Award to playback singer P. Suseela.

On the occasion the Thoppil Gopalakrishnan Memorial Journalism Award will be presented to NDTV chief Pranoy Roy.

Parvathy Menon from The Hindu and Sebastian D’souza from the Mumbai Mirror have won the special jury awards.

The awareness programme will comprise a seminar on the “Role of media against terrorism” and a gathering by renowned painters on January 26 to salute the security personnel who died in action during the terrorist attack in Mumbai. There will also be a photo exhibition.

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