{"id":5589,"date":"2005-09-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/26\/2005-09-26-india-s-ministry-of-culture-organizes-nine-day-cultural-festival-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2005-09-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T12:00:00","slug":"2005-09-26-india-s-ministry-of-culture-organizes-nine-day-cultural-festival-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/26\/2005-09-26-india-s-ministry-of-culture-organizes-nine-day-cultural-festival-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Ministry of Culture Organizes Nine-Day Cultural Festival in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=12225 \">pib.nic.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MOSCOW, RUSSIA, September 24, 2005: The Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with Jawahar Lal Nehru Cultural Centre, Moscow, and Sangeet Natak Akademi, has organized a nine-day long cultural festival entitled &#8220;Days of India&#8221; in Russia from September 26, 2005. The festival will be inaugurated by Shri S. Jaipal Reddy, Union Minister of Information &#038; Broadcasting and Culture, in the presence of his Russian counterpart.  Altogether, a contingent of 96 artists (66 folk artists and 30 classical artists) will be performing in four cities of Russia &#8212; Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaluga and Tver.  At the inaugural function, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma will give a recital on santoor. This will be followed by Tchaikovsky&#8217;s ballet &#8220;Swan Lake&#8221; being performed in Mohiniyattam style by the renowned exponent of Mohiniyattam &#8211; Smt. Bharti Shivaji and her students.  Other performances are by folk ensemble groups. In the grand finale, flutist Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia and violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam will perform. This 10-day festival is a reciprocal event to the &#8220;Days of Russia&#8221; held in India in 2003.  The Creative Director for the festival is Shri Bansi Kaul and the designer for the puppet exhibition is Shri Neeraj Sahai.   <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pib.nic.in MOSCOW, RUSSIA, September 24, 2005: The Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in collaboration with Jawahar Lal Nehru Cultural,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}