CS releases colourful calendar

by Haryananewswire
Chandigarh, Jan 15
Haryana Chief Secretary Dharam Vir today released a colouful table calendar and a wall calendar for 2009 brought out jointly by Haryana Kala Parishad and Haryana Information and Public Relations Department here today.
The calendars depict paintings based on Haryanvi culture, by multi talented noted artist, Mr Harvinder Malik, who himself has designed the calendars. The calandars have been conceived and visualised by Haryana Commissioner-cum-Director, Information and Public Relations, Mr Krishan Kumar Khandelwal.
The Chief Secretary was all praise for the design and print quality of both the calendars. He also appreciated the depiction of Haryanvi culture through the calendars.
While the 12-leaf table calendar has separate pages for all the 12 months of the year, the wall calendar has six pages with each depicting two months. The table calender is in both languages that is Hindi and English, the wall calendar is in Hindi only.
Haryana Kala Parishad was founded in the year 1995 with the objectives of preserving, promoting and presenting music, dances, bhajans, gathas and raagnees of Haryana. It remained largely a defunct body till 2006-07. From, the year 2007, Haryana Kala Parishad has come in its real form. It has speedily taken initiatives in organizing State level folk dances, folk music competitions among young generation of female and male singers, holding painting exhibitions and doll making workshops, national level festivals of saangs, Ram Lila and Krishan Lila through reputed organisations.
The special feature of Haryana Kala Parishad has been to revive the heritage of Pt.Lakhmi Chand, who is known as Shakespeare of Haryana, and his contemporaries. In this connection, State Level Raagni, Singing Programme of the best of the artists is being held at Rai (Sonipat) for the last two years. Haryanvi folk heritage contains nearly 10,000 compositions and 500 folk tunes with the ingredients of best of Classical Ragas from Samved to present day. The documentation of all the prominent cultural programmes is being undertaken for preserving this great heritage.
Those present on the occasion included Chairman, Haryana Administrative Reforms Commission, Mr Karan Singh Dalal,Haryana Commissioner-cum-Director, Information and Public Relations, Mr Krishan Kumar Khandelwal and Director, Haryana Kala Parishad, Mrs Usha Sharma.