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‘Rayalaseema festival'

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Rayalaseema Art Theatres Association will organise the ‘Rayalaseema Festival' at Ravindra Bharathi on June 15 and 16, with the objective of bringing into focus the various cultural aspects associated with the Rayalaseema region.

As part of the festival, prominent civil servants from IAS, IPS and IFS cadres hailing from the region will be felicitated with the ‘Rayalaseema Ratna' awards, association president Kondapalli Seshagiri told a press conference here on Wednesday.

Officials hailing from outside Rayalaseema, but who served in the region will also be felicitated with ‘Rayalaseema Gourava Puraskaram' (Rayalaseema Honorary Award), he said.

Apart from these, there will be cultural programmes, a food festival with Rayalaseema cuisine, and a photo exhibition displaying the region's biodiversity.

“Rayalaseema has always received adverse publicity as a faction-ridden region, thanks to its portrayal in movies. But factionists form only a minority in two-crore population of the region from where many important leaders, officers and saints hailed,” Mr. Kondapalli Seshagiri said.

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