India converged in the Capital on Sunday as the full dress rehearsal for Republic Day provided a preview of the celebrations, which would showcase the country’s cultural diversity and military might.
More than 450 artistes from different states are preparing to perform on the big day at a special camp in south Delhi. Twenty- three stunning tableaux representing various states, Union territories and ministries, have been readied for Republic Day. Last year, only 21 tableaux had made the cut.
“ The tableaux provide a glimpse of not only India’s tradition and culture but represent the fast pace at which the nation is progressing,” defence ministry official Dhananjay Mohanty said. Mohanty is managing his ministry’s tableau show.
The theme of the tableaux varies from the evolution of classical performing arts in Kerala to the cultural and religious harmony that reigns in the Capital. “ We have tried to symbolise the unity and integrity of the country in all tableaux,” Mohanty said.
The Gujarat tableau represents the state’s Buddhist heritage while artistes from Jammu and Kashmir will perform Bhand Paether, a form of Kashmiri folk theatre.
The ministries of railways and culture have both chosen Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary as their tableau’s theme. Several government departments have themed their tableaux on several of the Centre’s policies and landmark Bills such as the Right to Education Act. And the artistes seem to be having the time of their lives as they rehearse. Take the case of 20- year- old Navdesh Mehta.
This is the first time that the Gujarat lad is visiting Delhi. “ I am fortunate that I’d get to perform in front of so many dignitaries. This is an experience of a lifetime,” Mehta, a Chemistry student, said.
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Heartiest Republic day wishes 2011 to all Indians all over the world.
All the best to all artist who going to make the day more special.
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I am India's expert in strategic defence and the father of India's strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program and in my blog titled 'Nuclear Supremacy for India Over U.S.', which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, I have said force is the foundation of sovereignty and justice. Around 1989, when the United States invaded Panama and brought its head of state Manuel Noriega in chains to the United States for alleged drug crimes committed by him in Panama, I recounted in a letter which appeared in News India, New York saying in a telephone conversation with Mrs. Imelda Marcos of the Philippines when she and her husband, the president, were being prosecuted in a U.S. district court in New York for alleged corruption in the Philippines that 'These are Europeans who have usurped the land of other people and committed genocide on them. ... Each time we buy anything from the United States, we pay taxes that are being used to commit crimes all over the world by the C.I.A.; we have the right to arrest president Bush and the entire American government and try them under Indian law' and said ' It is not the law, the problem is enforcement -- who has got the guns. There is an American saying that 'If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns'; these (the Americans) are the biggest outlaws in the world and they've got the guns -- nuclear weapons -- and they would like to keep it that way'. Recently there was much to do about the Indian ambassador to the U.S. having been searched at a U.S. airport but, as I have described in my blog, when George W. Bush came to India as president, U.S. security men searched Manmohan Singh who was waiting to receive him at the New Delhi airport, as an Indian TV channel reported and Vajpayee tried to excuse that by saying 'Atithi Devo Bhav' (a guest is God); this invader of Afghanistan, that is Indian subcontinent -- that is India -- is God to India's traitor prime ministers and Manmohan Singh told him Indians "deeply love" him; see my blog for "Source of Manmohan Singh's 'deep love' for Bush" in the genocide the British committed on Indians, killing over ten million in the ten years after 1857.
I said in my Press Release dated August 14, 2008, included in my blog, that "The criminals of the Supreme Court, loyal as they are to the firangis (above), could not give a hoot for India’s sovereignty and they show it in their behaviour. India’s Parliament, from the Speaker to individual MPs, has also shown its indifference to India’s sovereignty. The surrender of India’s sovereignty by the Executive is known to everyone. India’s sovereignty rests only in me. I am India’s sovereign."
Satish Chandra
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