Bikash Choudhury
30 June 2011, Ravindramandap woke up to a quite different program; the culture Dept. Govt. of Orissa organized a program called "Jaganathayana".The day coincided with 'Navajaubana Darsan' of deity Sri Jaganatha of Puri. Last month, Jaganathayana was conducted on the background of Lingaraja Temple;which was spirituality with romance of Oriya Architecture. This was an important step of Govt. to rekindle faith in local culture and popularize "Jaganatha Sanskriti".The program started with Bhajan rendition by Sri Patitapabana Tripathy.The master of Oriya music hold the audience spell bound with deeply spiritual and devotion filled rendition of Jaganatha Bhajana--"Khaniki Karuna unaa he Karuna nidhi" And that was followed by an eloquent speech by Dr. Santosh Kumar Tripathy on "Jaganatha Philosophy" and more specifically on "saradha Bali".Mr. Tripathy with his infamous command over Oriya language, explained beautifully “Why the devotees of Jaganatha forget to ask for any favor from lord jaganatha after reaching Bada Danda? Millions of his devotees believe, that they get overwhelmed by emotion after coming in touch with blessings of Jaganatha in form of sand and dust of Bada Danda.He also spoke on folklore & history on the naming of Puri city.One thought denotes Puri as 'Completeness' the other one about 'Mahodadhi' meaning sea and the last one being a 'Divine Place' in the east coast.He also emphasized on historical facts pertaining to noting about Orissa&oriya in the "shilalekha" available in Jaganatha temple even now. Orissa in its current geographic form comprise of three States-Kalinga, Utkal and Koshala.The talk of Mr. tripathy was laced with divinity, extremely informative for those who wish to connect with their roots & history of their land, culture and rich civilization and on top of it thought provoking.
In spite of such a high quality program Ravindramandapa was only 50 % occupied. Reason could be that many people (target audience) was not informed about the program suitably in advance. Culture Dept. apart from conducting such rich program must also make an effort to reach out to the people who should be interested in such programs; namely, the senior citizens and middle aged. Special bus facility from different parts of the city to the venue can be arranged in collaboration with City bus service (Dream Team Sahara).If more people were informed and logistic in place regarding transport, then more people can attend such program and message about Jaganatha Sanskriti reach more homes in the city. Over a period of time, the demand for such programs would be such that people would be open to buy tickets to enjoy local devotional cultural programs. That should be the peak and ultimate goal of culture Dept.
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