While everyone was expressing their Love and Affection on the Valentine’s Day. I got a move around the Udaipur City to know how actually is the Love Day being celebrated. Deen Dayal Park, Rajeev Gandhi Park, Lake Pichola, Fatehsagar lakeside emerged as the favourite hotspot for the Couples to celebrate their Love. While the Gifts and Flowers shop were full of Buyers, Udaipur as usual faced the protest by various Social Groups. Anyways here are the pictures of the Valentine’s Day that I Clicked 🙂
On Behalf of Team UdaipurBlog.com I wish you a very Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you guys enjoyed your day and had a good time with your loved ones.
Mayuri is a 3 day event that is conducted by the B.N.P.G. girls’ college from past 17 years. This is a cultural fest that includes all types of programmes, such as dance, song, fancy dress, fashion, in all western, traditional, filmy, and folk flavors, with the traditional touch. This year the 2012 celebration of Mayuri was commemorated from 27th to 29th January 2012.
The fest was full of cultural activities, and ended with prize distribution at the end of each day. There was the Best Students of BN competition on the last day of the fest. Many dignitaries attended the fest in the span of three days including Mr. Raghuveer Meena, Mrs. Rajni Dangi, Shilendra Dashora (Director, West Zone Cultural Centre), Mrs. Neelima Sukhadia, etc. The last day was attended by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Mr. Ashok Gehlot, where he praised the works by the BN Educational Sansthan, and emphasized on efforts to make B.N. a separate full fledged University.
Check out the pictures from the 3 day event below.
Dainik Bhaskar – Miraj Lakecity Carnival united the whole city with the purpose of getting all the craziness out of youth this sunday(15th January, 2012). Another energetic celebration of music, dance and exhibitions in City of Lakes. Reciprocating the success of last year celebration this Carnival began from Town Hall and ended at Fatehsagar Lake.
In order to make this carnival one of the most exuberant carnivals it took many weeks of hard work, an energetic approach, lots of creativity and patience. From Townhall to Fatehsagar people were in full swing celebrating the festivities with all the happiness and good fortune.
Udaipies are known for loving the city wholeheartedly and discovering the fullness of life in the hills and lakes that adds sparkles to Udaipur 🙂
Lakecity carnival began with lots of enthusiasm; students from schools, colleges were dressed up in awesome costumes, various artists mesmerized people with their dazzling performances. There were 36 floats and 50+ performances in total displaying various art forms, dance and activities.
This carnival proved to be a dynamic tool for self exploration and to develop new forms tourism in our Udaipur.
The power of creativity that underlies these performances did transform lives of many. People gathered in groups at the squares to celebrate colors of this fantastic carnival. The Competitions held at the lakeside attracted large crowds and ended with the judgments which made this carnival memorable for the participants .
We at UB believe that such activities are very helpful in promoting a new culture in our City and promoting tourism in our City. 🙂
Article by : Chani Soni || Contribution by : Sanjit Chohan
Here are some Great Clicks by Our Team Photographers : Mujtaba R.G. and Gaurav Bhattacharya
Here are the pictures of Shilpgram Day – 6 : Lok Tarang 🙂 Clicked by me… 😀 I Hope you Like them … Check out the Schedule of Shilpgram By Clicking Here. The Shilpgram festival will last till this Friday so enjoy this Cultural Extravaganza 🙂
TV, Dance Reality Shows no doubt all can dance your feet off. You will be stunned looking at those hip hop moves, those lift in salsa. But they want be able to give you the essence of our old tradition, the flavor of rich diversity that India bold and all this you can get at one place and this is non other than Shilpgram. After so many years, I got a chance to float in the melodies of cultural event held at Shilpgram. Performers in their beautiful woeful dresses sitting in the front row and it gave a glimpse of low dazzling. Starting with the dance from Kerala, is a state of 750 dance forms. We went on a journey of Maharashtra. Where dancers were paying rituals to their goddess. Colorful marks, dashing moves, everything they performed took my breath away. Indian culture would always be incomplete without a dance form “Aapno Rajasthan”. “Sari Duniya mai bhaya ho rahi hai tar tar ” made the crowd stand up at their place and dance. The cultural programmes of the Gujarat Day(Day 4) and Rajasthan Day(Day 5) were really worth a visit. For those who unfortunately missed it, UdaipurBlog gets the best glimpses for you by our Mujtaba R.G. 🙂
Christian community in India celebrates Christmas with pomp, gaiety and devotion. This festival is celebrate evening of Christmas on 24th Dec and continue till New Year’s Day. All Christians across the country mark the birth of Lord Jesus Christ in Christmas day by participate in special masses organized in churches. Celebration of Christmas is marked by carols, cakes, candles, bells and the decoration of Christmas tree. Ladies start preparations for the traditional Christmas cake which is anxiously awaited not just by the entire family but also by the neighbors. This festival has assumed secular overtones and evening joyfully celebrated by people of all religions and community. Christmas day called “Bada Din” (Big Day) in Hindi and Christmas is a national holyday in India. People from all religions join their Christian friends to make the most of the joys celebration. Christmas in India may not be as widespread affair as in some western country but in India, this festival is celebrated by the Christian community across the country with great zeal and gaiety. People staying in different cities for job or higher studies rush back to their homes to celebrate Christmas with their near and dear ones.
Customs of Christmas celebration vary in the vast expansion of India, this varies largely because of local culture of influence. Generally, on the day of Christmas, people of Christmas fraternity gather in church for worship. Here, they attend Church services and sing carols. There is also the concept of Midnight in India. In fact, it is a very important service and holds great religious significance amongst the Christians of the country. On the night of 24th December, all the Christian families attend the Midnight mass at the local churches. The Churches in India are also decorated with the Poinsettia flowers. In South India, for instance, Christians light clay lamps on the rooftop and walls of their houses, the same way as Hindus decorate during the “Diwali” festival. . Besides, in several states of India a popular custom is to decorate customs is to decorate customs banana or mango tree instead of traditional Pine tree. In northwest India, the tribal Christians of the Bhil tribe go out night after night for a week during Christmas to sing their equivalent of carols the whole night through. In Mumbai, which has one of the largest Roman Catholic communities in India, there is a tradition to depict nativity scenes and decorate home with big stars.
Udaipur celebrated the year with lots of joy and happiness. The celebrations though started long before the Christmas day itself. There was an Inter-Church Caroling too, held in the Pentecostal Church (situated at Rani Road) this year, on Dec 23.
Father Kulranjan Nicholas, Parish Priest, The Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral (popularly known as St. Paul’s church) said that the highlight would be the Vigil Mass on Dec 24 from 11pm to 2am, where Bishop Joseph Pathalil would be the main celebrant of the Mass, assisted by more than 10 priests. “It will be in Hindi and after the Mass, we will have refreshments as the clergy and parishioners to greet each other a blessed Christmas. It is a time for family get-togethers, praying together. There will also be cultural programmes” Fr. Ranjan said. He trusted the dedicated team of people in charge of the project will come up with a remarkable and outstanding display of the Nativity Scene. This week, Fr Ranjan (and his assistant priests) has/have also been going around this week giving sacraments to the sick and the bedridden. Fr Ranjan added that a blood donation campaign is also being planned tentatively to be held on Dec 29 in the church premises. Check out the pictures below to see the Christmas celebrations in Udaipur
In the end, Team UdaipurBlog wishes all its readers a very happy Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 🙂
Guest Author: Aniket John
Photo courtesy: Aniket John and Mujtaba RG
Special Thanks: Father Kulranjan Nicholas
Shepherd MemorialOur Lady of Fatima Cathedral
Father Kulranjan NicholasAniket, our Guest Author for the day
‘Shilpgram’ literary meaning village/hub for art and craft come alive with the shilpgram utsaav at every year end since its inception. Here one can enjoy the vivid cultures in form of cultural program performed by different artists all round India strongly showing the integrity and prosperity of the nation.
In the chain of cultural program after witnessing the culture of Maharashtra now it is the time of its neighbor state, the smallest in all, land of orchards and water GOA. The Third day of Shilgram(23 December, 2011) was celebrated as Goa Day which started with Ganesh Vandana as we Indians believe that while starting the thing let us begin by the name of God. One of the major attractions on this day was Samai Dance form which is associated with the traditional brass lamps, a Goan Handicraft. The balance and the concentration required for holding the lamp on the head while performing the variety of moments amazed everyone present there. Though a state full of fishermen is small but is vast and vibrant in culture. The event also included performances by Rajasthani Folk Dancers. Check out the exclusive pictures clicked by me 🙂
In the running colors of shilpgram it was Maharashtra to show it’s culture and tradition today. Even being the second day, there was a huge crowd of spectators who were there to see the maharashtrian art forms.
Maharashtra day was celebrated with great excitement and passion. One can hear the crowd shouting “Jai bhawani” and “Jai Shivaji”, and whole environment was coloured in the stream of Marathi madness.
Maharashtra day started with Ganesh Aarti followed by heart sizzling performance of Marathi performers. One can see the glance of Gudipadwa, Gokul Ashtami and Ganpati Utsaav in the performances, but the art form of the people of sangli snatched the breath of the audience. The ending was a grand success with combined performance of all Marathi artists.
Dance performances were full of colors and enriched in different art forms of Maharashtra, and were choreographed by Kavita Koli, a veteran in this profession by 25 years. While talking to Kavita koli she said that “My focus is to present the art forms in the best way I can, and the idea is to experiment with new elements to expand its horizon”.
The Maharashtra Day was inaugurated by Director of Cultural Affairs – Ashutosh Ghorpade(Maharashtra), P. Laliakar.(Goa) and Furqaan Shaikh(Additional Director WZCC)
Photos By : Mujtaba R.G. — Article By : Priyank Sharma
Diwali is the festival of lights – a day when light conquers over darkness, may it be darkness in our surroundings or the darkness that resides in our lives and hearts. There spreads the kingdom of light everywhere, in every corner, in ever house, in every life, in every heart..
And when light spreads in our beautiful lake city even light feels proud for being in as charming city as Udaipur, even words in dictionary fall short to describe the enchanting beauty of our city at a diwali night.
So here we bring to you sum exotic pictures clicked by Amit Kothari, Mujtaba RG, Yash Sharma and Prasun Bannerjee from the main markets of the city that are sure to dazzle you with their glow and fancy.
Team UdaipurBlog wishes you a very happy and prosperous new year and we pray that the glowing lamps may illuminate your lives with the light of everlasting joy, happiness, health and success. 🙂
The victory of good over evil was again symbolized at Gandhi Ground yesterday, where a huge crowd gathered in the evening to celebrate the moment. There were processions and events from the afternoon, which concluded with the entry of Ram, played by Mr. Vijay Kasturi, Lakshman played by Amit Khathuria, and Hanuman played by Kishor Lalwani entered the ground.
The structures were standing tall at about 60 feet. There was a lot of effort done on the preparations. After the Tilak of Ram, the scene came into action with fireworks, and Hanuman set the Golden Lanka on Fire. Following this moment, Ram set the structures of Ravan, Meghnad, and Kumbhkaran on fire, with his fiery arrow. The awesome fireworks wowed the entire crowd present at the moment. The Chief guests present at the ceremony were Mrs. Rajni Dangi, Mr. Gulabchand Kataria, Dr. Girija Vyas, Mr. Raghuveer Meena, Mrs. Kiran Maheshwari, etc.
Ravan was burnt, but we all still have many evils around us, such as crime, illiteracy, poverty, etc, most prominent among them being corruption. With the burning Ravan, which symbolizes the evil, we just hope that the “trending” Ravans among us burn away from our society.
