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indian consul General sVcc Director iAsP vice president iAsP cultural Director
Amit K mishra Puja Kaushik rakesh Kanojia Vijay Bavaskar
formed Bhangra and Bollywood tude to the Indian Association,
dances. SVCC and Indian Consulate in
After the dances, it was the Sao Paulo, for the “opportunity
turn of poetry at this event. Shelly to perform in Brazil”.
Bhoil, an Indian who lives in São Earlier, a detailed expla-
Paulo and is a writer & poet, re- nation of Diwali was given by
cited a poem about “The Lights Amitabh Ranjan Singh, who re-
of Hope”. called the fundamental role of
Then Abhijit Pohankar, Prince Rama and his wife Sita in
who belongs to the fourth gen- this celebration. Rama, a char-
eration of family of musicians, acter in the Ramaiana epic, is
performed at the event from Kanchana Kanojia (left) and ratnabali Adhikari the 7th incarnation of the Hin-
his home in Mumbai, as orga- du god Vishnu (preservation).
nizer of the Bollywood Ghara- He explained that the festival
na Group. The group made a celebrates Rama’s return from
special presentation for Diwali a 14-year exile in the forest, af-
2020, with the participation of ter defeating the demon Rava-
Abhijit himself, who played the na. “Indians light rows of diyas,
harmonium, Avanti Patel, who or clay lamps, which represent
sang Bollywood songs, Gandhar the victory of wisdom over ig-
Deshpande, who sang classical norance. We also worship the
songs, and Saurabh Joshi, who goddess Lakshmi. This date is
played guitar, in addition to Ak- believed to mark his marriage to
shay Jadhav, on percussion. To the god Vishnu, ”he said.
begin with, they sang and played The festival always falls in the
songs from Asha Bhosle’s album months of October or Novem-
“Di Padosi hai”, released in 1987 Gyanshree Karahe miriam lamas Baiak ber, depending on the Hindu lu-
and other Bollywood fusion nar calendar. This year, the main
songs with classics. celebration day fell on Novem-
The 30-minute long musical ber 14th.
concert was a huge success with Indian families leave their
the crowd in the virtual event. As doors and windows open and
the Bollywood Gharana belted light their homes with lamps to
out some of the most popular facilitate Laskhmi’s entry into
Bollywood numbers mixed with their homes, that is, prosperi-
the strains of clssical ragas, there ty. The entrances to the houses
was a large number of comments are also decorated with drawings
from the audience, many of them on the floors made with colored
Brazilians who have not heard powders, flower petals and rice.
the music of this level before. These drawings are called Ran-
The popular group, which golis. People wear new clothes
has been performing in India shelly Bhoil to thank Lakshmi for providing
and US, expressed their grati- Continued at next page... >>
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