Cultural Events
Celebrating Talent and Tradition: Pahal Sanskritik Utsav 2024
Pahal Sanskritik Utsav, a cultural celebration held on June 27, 2024, marked a memorable occasion for Project Pahal. It provided a heartfelt platform for students to showcase their unique talents and potential. The event also aimed to breathe new life into India's rich folk art and cultural heritage, which face challenges from modern influences.
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The festivities started with a traditional lamp-lighting ceremony and a mesmerizing "Ganesh Vandana" dance performance. Inspirational speeches by R Systems officials highlighted the event's focus on education and community empowerment. Throughout the day, students captivated the audience with vibrant dance performances, thought-provoking skits, and engaging quizzes. The Summer Camp Exhibition showcased impressive art and science projects, while educational role plays shed light on social issues and India's constitutional values.
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Pahal Sanskritik Utsav 2024 exemplified the spirit of talent, tradition, and community enrichment fostered by Project Pahal.
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FOUNDATION DAY CELEBRATIONS 2020
To mark the completion of 13 years of the PARAS INDIA NGO on the 24th of August, 2020, a series of activities were organised across our regional centres. Our community workers along with the children and associated beneficiaries took part in the 13th-anniversary celebrations. Norms of social distancing and sanitation were followed during the course of the celebrations. Various fun activities
including cultural performances, quiz, games were held on the occasion.
MAATI KE RANG, 2023
People came together for MAATI KE RANG, 2023, an annual cultural celebration put on by PARAS INDIA, to share customs, values, and culture. On March 21 and 22, 2023, Munna Purva, Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh, a group of people congregated in a pitch with time to perform and act took inspiration from one another to revitalise the culture. It was a promising platform devoted to the investigation of unrealized artistic potential. Across the limiting limits of religion, nationality, ethnicity, and language, MAATI KE RANG, 2023 Utsav has propagated the message of the unity in diversity of one land and family in this modern day. The ultimate purpose of the cultural programme is to "Empower everybody." Hundreds of participants came from many states to participate in this out-of-the-ordinary effort to celebrate diversity and harmony in a rural setting, as well as to witness the exceptional performances by local and regional folk artists who were to deliver musical performances and dances.
RAKSHA BANDHAN CELEBRATIONS 2020 AT PARAS
Raksha Bandhan is the celebration where sisters tie Rakhi thread on the wrist of their brothers and exchange vow of protection. However, with time it has come to be celebrated among siblings where sisters would also tie rakhi to each other. This year too PARAS celebrated this festival of togetherness from home.Children made Rakhi by themselves at home from old material. They also wrote about their favourite memories of their siblings and shared with each other. They tied Rakhi and gave handmade cards to their brothers and sisters.
ECO-FRIENDLY HOLI CELEBRATIONS AT PARAS INDIA
Using the festival of colours to brighten up the lives of kids, PARAS INDIA organized Holi Celebrations among the communities across its regional centres. The kids got a chance to express their thoughts and feelings on canvas, by medium of a set of crayons to the kids as they painted a smorgasbord of colours and images depicting what Holi means to them.
Our annual Holi celebrations are not just a cultural festival but a reminder to lead sustainable lives in our capacity. PARAS has always emphasized the need for changing our lifestyles in accordance with the changing climatic needs. We, therefore, promote eco-friendly Holi celebrations using organic colours, saving waters and awaring people about the harmful use of synthetic colours on the animals. We took the pledge of a happy and safe Holi.
ULLAS
PARAS INDIA celebrated the International Women’s Day with the inmates in the Tihar Jail no. 6 . It has been our constant effort to make entertainment full of information. Therefore, we utilised this opportunity to conduct a Mental Health workshop and a Menstrual Hygiene Management seminar on the occasion . The event began with a welcome dance. Cultural events too were successfully concluded at the Tihar Jail No. 6 on the 8th of March, 2020. The event had a drawing competition being organised on the theme of mental health, air pollution and sensitive issues like Beti Bachao- Beti Padhao. This acted as a stress buster for the inmates and allowed them to use the canvas and bring out their creativity . The mental health workshop was conducted to normalize seeking help for counselling sessions conducted by PARAS. The workshop included various fun activities activating the right and left side of the brain.
There were a series of programs including group dances, soulful singing, comedy acts etc all performed by the inmates. The nukkad natak team of PARAS INDIA performed nataks on themes of mental health and education. It compelled everyone in the audience to give a thought to the education of girl children. The most impressive part of the event was the quiz competition organized by PARAS . Questions related to General Knowledge were asked by our team. The event concluded with the winner announcement and prize distribution from Mr. Rajesh Chopra, the Chief Guest, DIG, Tihar Headquarters. The event would be etched in the memory of the audience forever.