Ramayana Festival Kickstarts In CHHATTISGARH

The three-day festival was inaugurated by the Chief Minister and brings the best of cultural performances from across the globe

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The Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the National Ramayana Festival at Ramleela Maidan in Raigarh district on Thursday 1st June. The festival, being organised from 1 to 3 June, witnessed cultural performances from across the globe.

It may be noted that this is the first time that the festival is being organised in Chhattisgarh. At this mega event, devotional performances based on Ramkatha were staged by Ramayana troupes from 12 states of the country as well as those from Cambodia and Indonesia. Through these performances, people got to see a glimpse of various diverse national-global forms of Ramkatha.

The competition of Ramayana Mandalis based on the Aranya Kand of Ramayana commenced on the first day, and the nationally renowned artists arrived in Chhattisgarh to stage their musical performances at 'Bhajan Sandhya' of the Ramayana Festival. Ramayana teams from Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam, Goa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have participated in this national festival.