बिहार उत्सव दिसम्बर में

बिहार में बाढ़ की त्रासदी के कारण हमारी संस्था द्वारा सितम्बर में दिल्ली में बिहार उत्सव का आयोजन नही हो पाया। इसके पीछे कई कारण रहे। अव्वल तो यह कि इस आयोजन में महती भूमिका निभाने वाले कई साथी बिहार में बाढ़ आने पर सीधे पटना की ट्रेन पकड़ राहत कार्य में जुट गए। बिहार ऐसी विपदा में फंस गया कि कुछ समझ में नही आ रहा था कि एक और जहाँ बिहार के लोग बाढ़ से त्रस्त हैं वहीं हम दिली में बिहार उत्सव का आयोजन कैसे करें।
फ़िर सर्वसम्मति से विचार बना कि सितम्बर की उसी तारीख को बाढ़ पीडितों के लिए बाल भवन में एक कार्यकम का आयोजन करते हैं और बिहार के पीडितों को सहायता प्रदान करते है। हम लोग इस मिशन में काफी हद तक सफल रहे।
अब जब बिहार में काफी हद तक जिन्दगी रफ्ता-रफ्ता अपनी लय में आ रही है तो बिहार उत्सव का आयोजन दिसम्बर के अन्तिम सप्ताह में दिल्ली में आयोजित करने की तैयारी चल रही है। अब जब सारा कम नए सिरे से करना पड़ रहा है तो लाजमी है समय और जोश की और जरूरत होगी ही। ऐसे में संस्था के सदस्य, दोस्त, अभिभावक, कला प्रेमी, विज्ञापन दाताओं और खासकर उन तमाम कला दर्शकों की शुक्रगुजार हूँ जिन्होंने हर पल, हर समय मेरी हौसलाफजाई की। तो थोड़ा और इंतजार,इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय कला केंद्र में मिलते हैं दिसम्बर के अंतिम सप्ताह।

बिहार के बाढ़ पीड़ितों के नाम एक शाम

Dear friends,

This is to inform you that Rag Virag Cultural and Educational Society, New Delhi is organizing "HAMAREE SANSAKRITIK DHAROHAR " for the relief of Bihar flood victims।This is the campaign to support or provide aids to the suffering people and this becomes our responsibility to help them and shows our humanity towards other human being।The disaster in North-eastern Bihar is not just a flood, but its a serious natural calamity of changing of path of a river।This calamity has caused 40 lakh people displaced and homeless for about two years, until the dam is repaired and river goes back to its old path।

Ms।Sheila Dikshit, Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi has given her kind consent to be the Chief Guest as per the following programme:

Date: 16th September (Tuesday)

Time: 6।०० शाम

Venue: Bal Bhawan, Kotla Road, ITO, New Delhi

We take this opportunity to invite you to join the programme। We hope you shall very kindly accept our invitation and hope to see you there with friends and family।

Thanking you and with warm regards,

Yours sincerely,

Punita

Secretary

http://www.punitaragvirag.com/

N.B. Please do come with your family and friends. Kindly treat this letter of mine as the invitation card.

Utsav is on 16 and 17 september, 2008

Bihar Utsav is on 16 and 17 september, 2008 in New Delhi. Please participate and view.

Why Bihar Utsav is organising?

The eastern state of India, Bihar from time immemorial has contributed significantly in highlighting the glory of tangible and intangible heritage of India. It has also played, as we know from the incidents and moments of history and also pre-history, very vital role in shaping the political and philosophical ideologies and their multiple layers in changing times.
The contribution of the scholars of Bihar in the areas of navy-nyaya (Neo-Logic), mimansa, mathematics, political sciences, chand etc. are well known. It has had the proud past to say that a simple Bhilini with her meaningful folk song created a great source of inspiration for Siddharth that ultimately made him Gautama the Buddha.
Because of some recent political development and some other factors the people of this state are now facing a very peculiar position. The people of Bihar contribute a major share of the total population of Delhi and its satellites. Here also. like the other communities, the people of Bihar are playing a major role in all possible dimensions of the development of the national capital region.
Far away from their native place the people have successfully been managing to retain the rituals, festivals and cultural identity of their state. The celebration of Chath, Holi and other festivals of Bihar are now very popular in Delhi. In past couple of years these activities have created a direct political and cultural link of the people of this state in Delhi. Maithili and Bhojpuri are now officially recognized by the Delhi State Government and very soon we will have Maithili and Bhojpuri Academy in Delhi.
The member of Bihari Diaspora of Delhi have seriously been feeling to get an opportunity to meet the artists, scholars, administrators, cultural specialists, social animators from all walks of society and geographical pockets of Bihar living in and around Delhi.