Cultural diversity at Indian Independence Day
WHEN India, one of the most culturally expansive nations, exhibits what it has to offer, the world is awed. This was the case at the Indian 62nd independence celebrations at Didi’s World last week. <br>
By G. Mwijuke and E. Ssejjengo
WHEN India, one of the most culturally expansive nations, exhibits what it has to offer, the world is awed. This was the case at the Indian 62nd independence celebrations at Didi’s World last week.
Everyone was catered for. The Blossom Group of children did a dance that was representative of the four regions of India.
From the West was the Gujarati dress, the north was represented by the Punjabi dress while Southern India was seen through the Kerala dress. The easterners wore the Bengal dress.
It is hard to talk about Indian entertainment and leave out Bollywood. Sparkles, Divas and Spice Girls groups danced to the latest Bollywood hits.
The Punjabi Rockers mixed Bollywood and Punjabi traditional ideas for their creative dance.
But it was Aditya Nariyan’s performance that was the night’s highlight. When the 21-year-old star took to the stage, he was joined by the minister of internal affairs, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, and the high commissioner of India, Niraj Srivastava.
On the visual art scene was much in the way of jewellery. Their attachment to the spiritual world could also not have been missed.
India is known to celebrate its food culture a lot. And this was one of the opportunities to showcase the rich variety of its dishes to Ugandans.
“The Indian community will talk about this event for a long time,†said Interfreight Uganda’s Dilip Bhandari, an organiser at the uganda telecom/Crane Bank-sponsored event.
WHEN India, one of the most culturally expansive nations, exhibits what it has to offer, the world is awed. This was the case at the Indian 62nd independence celebrations at Didi’s World last week.
Everyone was catered for. The Blossom Group of children did a dance that was representative of the four regions of India.
From the West was the Gujarati dress, the north was represented by the Punjabi dress while Southern India was seen through the Kerala dress. The easterners wore the Bengal dress.
It is hard to talk about Indian entertainment and leave out Bollywood. Sparkles, Divas and Spice Girls groups danced to the latest Bollywood hits.
The Punjabi Rockers mixed Bollywood and Punjabi traditional ideas for their creative dance.
But it was Aditya Nariyan’s performance that was the night’s highlight. When the 21-year-old star took to the stage, he was joined by the minister of internal affairs, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, and the high commissioner of India, Niraj Srivastava.
On the visual art scene was much in the way of jewellery. Their attachment to the spiritual world could also not have been missed.
India is known to celebrate its food culture a lot. And this was one of the opportunities to showcase the rich variety of its dishes to Ugandans.
“The Indian community will talk about this event for a long time,†said Interfreight Uganda’s Dilip Bhandari, an organiser at the uganda telecom/Crane Bank-sponsored event.