Celebrating Rocks Through Art

There was something refreshingly different about this celebration.

- Darshita Jain

As the sun dipped over Hyderabad on Sunday evening, the usually quiet Sundarayya Vignana Kendram Auditorium in Gachibowli began to fill with people. Children tugged their parents' hands, young adults clicked pictures of the flower displays, and older visitors smiled knowingly. Everyone was there for International Rock Day (July 13), but this was no regular environment awareness event.

This year, the Society to Save Rocks decided to bring together art, nature, and storytelling. Instead of just words and lectures, they chose to let flowers and movement do the talking. The highlight of the evening was a powerful dance theatre piece called 'A Peaceful Movement', performed by Nayantara Nanda Kumar and her troupe from Our Sacred Space.