The competition is open to all as there are English original or translated poems by Rabindranath, Nazrul Islam and Sukanta Bhattacharjee and thus everyone having a flair for poetry, songs and dance should participate
KRC TIMES Barak Valley Bureau
The ‘Online Global Fest’ a platform to connect people globally through art, culture and think tank activities has gone ‘online’ from 31st October 2024, where this edition Poems, Songs & Dance of Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rabindranath Tagore and Sukanta Bhattacharjee is the main theme where students from Class-1 to senior citizen can submit a video clip to take part 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 Nazrul, Rabindranath and Sukanta is part of ‘Barak 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 great poets 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 as there are English original or translated poems by Rabindranath, Nazrul Islam and Sukanta Bhattacharjee and thus everyone having a flair for poetry, songs and dance should participate. He also informed that besides the prizes declared, there is every possibility of numerous other awards that would be subsequently given on 12th January 2025, the concluding day of the Barak Festival.
‘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.
Online Global Fest Brochure
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