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Folk dance forms to promote tourism
Folk dance forms to promote tourism
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 | AY
The colourful garba and dandiya raas, traditional folk dances that symbolise navaratri in Gujarat, have become a platform to promote the State as a tourist destination. Recently a mega cultural event involving over 660 artists including from foreign countries displayed their dance form. The festival was preceded by a seminar titled `Shakti' at Ahmedabad in which Sudha Murthy, wife of Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, addressed a gathering of bureaucrats and women journalists. A village tourism model that will showcase its culture and arts is on the anvil. This will allow artisans to promote their craft and earn a profit without losing out to middlemen. The `Vibrant Gujarat' summit held in 2003, 2005 and 2007 will focus on the resident Gujarati population but the 2006 and 2008 summit will be devoted to the non-resident Gujaratis.
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