It would not be an exaggeration to say that Swar Dharohar Festival kept the arty vibe of the city alive on the week-end. The music and art festival, organised by the Indian government’s Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the ‘Swar Dharohar Foundation’ was a two-day arty fest, an amalgamation of various genres of arts on one stage.
On the culmination day, April 30, 2023, the fest witnessed an interesting series of performances by some of the eminent artists of the country. The names featured Urdu poet Professor Waseem Barelvi, Savita Aseem, Satlaj Rahat, Arun Gemini, Mukesh Alam, Siddharth Shandilya, Khalid Qaiser, Dr Rehman Musawwir, Vinay Vinamra, Master Mahender, Dr Vanita, Jai Prakash Rawat, Shahid Anjum, Pratap Somvanshi, Ashwani Kumar Chand, Moien Shadab, Naina Soin Kapil, Chandni Pandey, Surender Sharma, Vinay Vikram Singh, Hans Raj Choudhary and Farhan Wasti Sadarat. Hence on the second day of the fest, the art lovers of Delhi experienced a huge assemblage of local and national-level poets exhibiting their artistry through a ‘kavi-sammelan”.
The Foundation started by a revolutionary bunch of artists in 2006. According to Foundation’s secretary Salim Siddiqui, “the aim was to create a safe space as well as a global platform for young artists while at the same time, popularising Indian art, music and its heritage.” Siddiqui has been tirelessly working towards the same goal in past two decades. Ghulam Mohammad Khan, President, Swar Dharohar Foundation stated, “Foundation’s long-term goal is to create ‘Swar Dharohar Guru Bhumi’, a music university which will act as a hub for learning different forms of art under one roof, where the ‘guru shishya parampara’ will find its renewal.
The festival, organised by the government along with the foundation, was sponsored by JBT and Sapphire Media Limited.
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