(Left) Radharaman Chatterjee and (Right) Theja Meru addressing media personnel at Dream Café in Kohima. (Morung Photo)
Kohima | July 29 : Official from Guwahati regional office of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affair is currently in the state capital with a view to promote local artists from Nagaland. Radharaman Chatterjee, regional officer ICCR, Guwahati told media persons today that the ICCR identify and promote local artists and whoever enroll with them gets opportunity to perform abroad.
Towards this, an open invitation is being extended to all performers of music and dances of the state for necessary registration on July 30 at 3:00 pm at The Heritage, old DC Bungalow. However, Chatterjee said the final decision of the selection lies in Delhi.
The registration process will be followed by cultural programme at 4:00 pm on the same day. Ebenezer, Off band, Kenei, Symphony School of Music are the among the many artists to perform at the show.
Theja Meru invited all the well wishers and music lovers to join the cultural programme which will also feature folk song by Ao. ICCR Regional Office Guwahati will take up all the related events in Nagaland in collaboration with Rattle & Hum Music Society. “We are trying to promote artists in Nagaland,” said Chatterjee adding that the ICCR would also hold horizon programme and music festival in the state as well.
The ICCR was founded in 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first Education Minister. The Council helps formulate and implement policies pertaining to India’s external cultural relations, to foster mutual understanding between India and other countries and to promote cultural exchanges with other peoples. The objectives of the Council are to participate in the formulation and implementation of policies and programme relating to India’s external cultural relations; to foster and strengthen cultural relations and mutual understanding between India and others countries and people; to establish and develop relation with national and international organizations in the field of culture; and to take such measure as may be required to further these objectives.
ICCR is about a communion of cultures, a creative dialogue with other nations. To facilitate this interaction with world cultures, the Council has strived to articulate and demonstrate the diversity and richness of the cultures of India, both in and with other countries of the world.
The Council is the pre-eminent institution engaged in cultural diplomacy sponsors of intellectual exchanges between India and partners countries. It is the Council’s resolve to continue to symbolize India’s great cultural and educational efflorescence in the years to come.
Kohima | July 29 : Official from Guwahati regional office of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affair is currently in the state capital with a view to promote local artists from Nagaland. Radharaman Chatterjee, regional officer ICCR, Guwahati told media persons today that the ICCR identify and promote local artists and whoever enroll with them gets opportunity to perform abroad.
Towards this, an open invitation is being extended to all performers of music and dances of the state for necessary registration on July 30 at 3:00 pm at The Heritage, old DC Bungalow. However, Chatterjee said the final decision of the selection lies in Delhi.
The registration process will be followed by cultural programme at 4:00 pm on the same day. Ebenezer, Off band, Kenei, Symphony School of Music are the among the many artists to perform at the show.
Theja Meru invited all the well wishers and music lovers to join the cultural programme which will also feature folk song by Ao. ICCR Regional Office Guwahati will take up all the related events in Nagaland in collaboration with Rattle & Hum Music Society. “We are trying to promote artists in Nagaland,” said Chatterjee adding that the ICCR would also hold horizon programme and music festival in the state as well.
The ICCR was founded in 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first Education Minister. The Council helps formulate and implement policies pertaining to India’s external cultural relations, to foster mutual understanding between India and other countries and to promote cultural exchanges with other peoples. The objectives of the Council are to participate in the formulation and implementation of policies and programme relating to India’s external cultural relations; to foster and strengthen cultural relations and mutual understanding between India and others countries and people; to establish and develop relation with national and international organizations in the field of culture; and to take such measure as may be required to further these objectives.
ICCR is about a communion of cultures, a creative dialogue with other nations. To facilitate this interaction with world cultures, the Council has strived to articulate and demonstrate the diversity and richness of the cultures of India, both in and with other countries of the world.
The Council is the pre-eminent institution engaged in cultural diplomacy sponsors of intellectual exchanges between India and partners countries. It is the Council’s resolve to continue to symbolize India’s great cultural and educational efflorescence in the years to come.
