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Taj
Mahotsav to focus on Ghalib, Mir
Tuesday January 04, 2011 07:34:11 PM,
IANS
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Agra: The ten-day
heritage festival Taj Mahotsav, beginning Feb 18, will focus on
doyens of Urdu poetry Mirza Ghalib and Mir Taqi Mir, an official
here said.
The festival, which began in 1993 as a tourism promotion
initiative, has over the years shrunk into just a local fair, with
foreign tourists largely keeping away from the programmes at the
Shilpgram complex, 500 metres from the Taj Mahal.
But this year the district authorities and tourism organisations
have decided to restore the festival's original glory.
A separate food zone and a section on Indian handicrafts would be
added to raise the festival's attraction.
"We are allotting 350 stalls to craftsmen and handicrafts
retailers," an official said.
Efforts are on to finalise speakers for a seminar on lesser known
monuments of Agra.
"This year many of the programmes will be held at different
places, close to the monuments, so that people get involved.
Fatehpur Sikri will also be lit up and some programmes will be
held there as well," the official added.
Divisional commissioner Sudhir M. Bobde, who has been having a
series of meetings for the last one month to finalise the festival
details, told district authorities and members of the organising
committee that an all-India mushaira will be held at the Soor
Sadan Auditorium focusing on works of Mirza Ghalib and Mir Taqi
Mir.
The city last week celebrated the 213th birth anniversary of Mirza
Ghalib, who was born here.
The commissioner has also instructed the tourism department to
immediately update its websites and start publicising the Taj
Mahotsav through travel agents and hotel chains.
The organising committee has also decided to run special city bus
service to ferry locals to the Shilpgram complex.
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