The ‘Online Global Fest’ a platform to connect people globally through art, culture and think tank activities which have gone ‘online’ from 31^st October 2024, has added another event where  Poems of Jana Neta Hijam Irabot of Manipur in Meitei language and Harivansh Rai Bhachchan’s poems in Hindi can be recited by participants in a cultural competition that will be conducted ‘online’. In the same edition, songs of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika will be one of the attractions that participants can showcase in Assamese, Bengali and Hindi. The poems and songs can also be showcased in a Dance Drama format.

Participants are categorised into Student, Youth and Senior Citizens and can submit video clips to participate in a friendly competition.

Various Cash Prizes and surprise gifts are offered to the participants and each participant will receive a digital participation certificate from KRC Foundation. The participant’s video will be showcased in the social media handles of the organisers. The participants shall also receive appreciation letters, and feedback from viewers, jury members etc. to encourage the participants to bring the best of their artistic endeavours.  

This edition of “Online Global Fest’ on Hijam Irabot, Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Dr. Bhupen Hazarika is part of Bark Festival 2025 which is going to be held at Silchar between 10 to 12 January next year and is being organised by the Knowledge Resource Centre Foundation (KRC Foundation) in collaboration with the Barak-Manipur Friendship Association (BMFA).

The event shall be managed by Vision Art & Cultural Centre, a three-decade-old organisation working in the field of art and culture in  Nagaland now managed by the KRC Foundation. The purpose of this competition and movement is to culture the rich literary contribution of these three greats of India and to take these forward to the grassroots level and across the globe.

In a statement, Biswadeep Gupta, the Managing Trustee of KRC Foundation has said that the competition is open to all Assamese, Manipuri and Hindi-speaking people across the globe having a flair for poetry, songs and dance should participate. Besides anyone irrespective of language and country, with a flair for ‘dance’ can participate.

He also informed that besides the prizes declared, there is every possibility of numerous other awards that would be subsequently given on 12^th January 2025,  the concluding day of the Barak Festival 2025.

‘We want to make this a global movement and to expose our young generations to the beautiful work done by these three greats of India’, echoed Biswadeep who was part of a cultural ecosystem from childhood.

Earlier in the month the same platform also started a contest on the poems, songs and dance drama on Rabindranath, Nazrul and Sukanta’s literary works that were mostly written during the pre-independence movement of India.

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