Lok Manthan 2024 to be inaugurated by President of India at Hyderabad

NEWS CHARIOT (Hanumakonda, Nov.15) : The Lok Manhan-2024 programme will be inaugurated by the President of India Droupadi Murmu which is going to be held on 22nd November at 9.30 Am at Shilpa Kala Vedika.in Hyderabad, said the National Convenor of Pragya Pravah J.Nanda Kumar speaking to the media persons in a press meet held here in Hanamkonda.

He said that Lokmanthan is a Biennial National Colloquium of Nationalist Thinkers & Practitioners. It is a platform where artists, intellectuals, and academicians from different parts of the country converge and brainstorm on the questions that permeate society, with an aim to reshape the narratives and prepare the nation to play its civilisational role.

The colonial rulers of Bharat employed a divide and rule policy to subjugate Indians. They called the non-city dwellers, especially the forest dwellers as Adivasis, an Indianised term for aboriginals, hus suggesting that the non-Adivasis are invaders and occupiers. They used these artificial definitions to create divisions among our people, contrary to the truth. Narratives were built saying that the rural populace or the illiterate and are not on the same levels of knowledge compared to the city dwellers.

Akhand Bharat has many commonalities and linkages while having their own local flavours uniquely enriching the nation’s unity in diversity. And Bharatiya culture and traditions form the common thread that permeates people irrespective of their place of living, region, language or any other such divisions. Gurukuls which were mostly located in villages or forest areas served as the places for higher education for kings, elites and commoners cutting across varnas or jaatis.

The traditions, practices, wisdom, arts, crafts, and nature-respecting solutions passed down through generations are still alive in large parts of Bharat, especially in the rural and forest areas. Lokmanthan aims to counter these divisive binary alien concepts of Adivasi, folk, etc., with the correct term Lok and bring out the commonalities and interconnectivity across our great nation, he added.

Key highlights of LokManthan are:

• 1500 + Performing Artists

• Plastic-free conference

• 100 + Art forms to be showcased

• 400 + rare traditional musical instruments to be exhibited.

• Pavilions from 8- State Governments

• All art forms to be performed by original or native artists ensuring an authentic and

culturally rich experience.

Art and culture specific to Telangana

include Dokra Metal Crafts, Kondapalli Toys, Nirmal Paintings,

Kalamkari Handlooms, Textiles and Pottery to name a few.

Telangana artforms like HariKathas, Perini, Burra Veena, Kinnera, Oggu Katha,