ART & CULTURE (RAILWAY) – Part – 3

• It is celebrated twice a year, once in the month of October November and then in the month of March April.

• Renowned artists perform various classical dances forms of India like Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, Kathak, Odissi, modern ballet and many other folk dance forms

• It is traditionally, a basket containing the foods traditionally forbidden to consume during Lent (meat, eggs, and dairy products), that is blessed by a priest for breaking the Lenten fast.

• This continues to be normative in Eastern Christianity.

• The four major Dravidian languages are Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada.

•They are also the official languages of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka respectively.

• It is a national monument built to honour and remember soldiers of the Indian military who fought in armed conflicts of independent India.

• It was established in January 2019 and unveiled on 25 February 2019.

• The festival falls during the Malayalam month of Chingam (August September) and marks the commemoration of Vamana avatara of Vishnu and the subsequent homecoming of the mythical King Mahabali who Malayalees con- sider as their King.

• It is a harvest festival.

• He, thus, became the first Indian star to roll out NFT collection.

• NFTs, or non - fungible tokens, transform digital artworks into unique verifiable digital assets that are tradable on the blockchain.

• Mandarin, English and Hindi were the three most spoken languages.

• It is a harvest festival that is celebrated to mark the end of the winter season while welcoming longer days due to the northward movement of the sun.

• This festival is dedicated to the Hindu religious god lord Surya.

• This is a five-day festival that begins on the auspicious day of Mahashivratri.

• Natyanjali is an annual dance festival commemorating the Hindu Lord Shiva.

• Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, New Delhi