Nagpur Today.
Kalidas Samaroha was inaugurated at the hands of Guardian Minister Chandrashekar Bawankule in Suresh Bhatt Hall on Friday evening. Madan Yerawar Minister of State for Tourism and Managing Director of MTDC Vijay Waghmare were present for the programme.
At the outset of the programme rich tributes were paid to Late Girajadevi and Late Kishor Yamunkar.
The programme began with Renuka Deshkar’s classical music which mesmerized audience. Soon after this the students of Late Girjadevi presented classical music which kept the audience spell bound.
The main objective of holding this programme is to keep Kalidas Samaroh as a national festival and to maintain its pride on national cutural map, promote Nagpur Division as prime tourist destination at state and national level, draw attention of people to Nagpur region’s rich cultural, architectural and literary heritage region.

Inaguration of Kalidas Festival

Prakash Patil and Sachin Kurve

Parag Soman and Ashwin Mudgal

Mahesh Elkunchwar

Kumudini Hadole, Sudhakar Kulmethe, Shriram Mundhda and Kapil Hatkar

Hanumant Hede, Madan Yerawar and Vijay Waghmare

Dr Deepak Mhaisekar and Jitendra Papalkar

Dipankar Shome

Ajay and Savita Sancheti

Dr Pratibha Mudgal and Nirupama Dange

Anoop Kumar

Suhas Divase,Ashutosh Salil and Shailesh Naval

Sudhakar Kohle, Chandreshekhar Bawankule, Sandeep Joshi and Nanda Jichkar
By Farhan Kazi
Pics by Rajesh Bansod

