Hyderabad, April 2024: Ramayana Kalpavrksam 2024signed off on a high note with the thrilling musical evening by popular group Indosoul by Karthick Iyer. Titled Rejoicing in Raghu – the band brought to life popular Karnatik music melodies in fusion music that had the audience dancing and clapping away. Earlier the well-known speaker Dushyant Sridhar spoke eloquently. Aabhas Maldahiyar’s latest historical book – Babur – The Chessboard King was released, followed by a discussion by the author with writer Shivakumar, that touched many aspects of writing history.
According to Ananda Shankar Jayant, the curator of Ramayana Kalpavrksam ‘ The festival has been a grand success, with full house and standing ovations. The festival received blessings from Gurus, Sri Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji, who inaugurated the festival on 29th March.Revered spiritual gurus have also blessed this festival by sending their video messages of blessings. Daaji and Sharadapeetham, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Sri Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha MahaswamiVaaru, Jagadguru Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati MahaswamiVaaru, Shri Shataavadhani Brahmashri Lalitaditya Garu sent a beautiful message. Their video messages were played. The morning workshop sessions too were well attended.
Many well-known artists, bureaucrats and industry leaders attended the 3-day festival and expressed that such multi arts festivals are much needed, to bring together our arts and knowledge together.