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Surajkund
The Surajkund Crafts is an annual event that highlight some of the finest handloom
and handicraft traditions of the country.
From 1st to 15th February rural India basks in the warmth of admiration at Surajkund
mela village that lies some 8 km from South Delhi. The Mela also celebrates
the rhythms of folk theatre- and a theme State that makes each visitor marvel.
The Mela is organised under the aegis of the Suraj Kund Mela Authority. This
comprises of the Department of Tourism Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Governement
of India in collaboration with Haryana Tourism, Development Commissioner for
Handlooms, Commissioner Development (Handicrafts)
The Objectives
- To create a rural ambience for the foreign and domestic tourist to see.
- To educate patrons both from abroad, urban centres and educational institutes
about the fascinating technique and skills involved in craft creation.
- To introduce crafts and craftspersons directly to the buyers and help them
find their patrons.
- To Identify, nurture and preserve languishing crafts of the country and save
it for posterity.
Suraj Kund is a beautiful tourist location of Haryana Tourism and in its lovely
setting, folk painters, metal workers, stone and wood carvers, tie dye craftspersons,
embroiders, lace makers, textiles printers, carpet and loom weavers, producers
of silk fabrics, jewellers and sculptors- execute and display their skills.
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Cuisine
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The fortnight long celebrations also come as a food festival. Some of the popular
food traditions from Punjab come at the Punjabi 'Rasoi'. South Indian delicacies
come in from South Indian Section. Popular Chinese and snack foods also arrive
for the event along with a special stalls where patrons are introduced to the
traditional foods and sweet meats of the selected theme State.
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Culture
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The Surajkund Crafts Mela has grown equally famous for the rhythms of folk
theatre: It resonates with the formal notes of the classical genre: The heady
rhythms of percussion instruments: The ballads of singing minstrels: The clebration
of the simple joys of rural life and reverence of epic traditions all mingle
well. All these colourful events are also presented before the audience in
the open-air-theatre named Natyashala.
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Crafts
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Some of the most deligtful crafts collections of the Mela arrive from practically
all over the country. In wood and cane come inlay work, rose wood carving, sandal
wood from Punjab and South India. Chiki wood craft of Kashmir and some very
fine cane craft come from West Bengal and North Eastern States. Delcate sholapith
and shital patti work come from Assam and West Bengal. The phulkari of Punjab,
the Banjara and Banni embroidery of Gujarat and Rajasthan, the Kantha traditions
from West Bengal and Tripura, lace and crochet from Goa, the Suzni of Kashmir
and Mirror encasing work along with the traditional chikan work of Lucknow delight.Oxidized
jewellery, sea shell decorations and agate stone work delight as also do delicate
gold work and chunky silver jewellery.
Toys in wood and cane, ply and mud make the young thrill with joy. Some of the
fine phad paintings of Rajasthan, the kalamkari of Andhra and Karnataka, temple
paintings of Orissa, madhubani of Bihar, fascinate. In the metal section tribal
dhora work, classical south Indian metal work, glittering brass ware, bell metal
and iron craft delight collectors. In the field of woven textiles some of the
finest silk work of Orissa, Patola, Bandhini of Gujarat and Rajasthan, Ikat,
Kanjeevaram, Dharmavaram and temple silks of South India vie for attention with
the most simple cottons of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and tribal textiles
of North East India as also do the handloom of Haryana.
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