Thursday, April 26, 2007

Mobile exhibition on Sikhism

PUNJAB govenrment shall be organizing a mobile exhibition depicting Sikh paintings, records, documents and monuments. This is being done to preserve Sikh history and culture and create awareness about Sikh history among the masses.
Disclosing this Jagjit Puri , Secretary Tourism, Cultural Affairs and Information & Public Relations said that the Photographic reproductions of the painting, lying with state archieves, depicting the life of the Sikh Gurus especially Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, famous Anglo-Sikh Wars, Sikh 'Morchas' and also facts relating to Maharaja Ranjit Singh and rajas and maharajas of Sikh States would be included in the painting exhibition. He also said that out of the 64 monuments, photographs of the 13 monuments of the Sikh history and Sikh sates would also be exhibited during the exhibition.
Interestingly Puri was in charge of publicity during the tercentenary celebrations of the Khalsa in 1999 during the earlier tenure of Parkash Singh Badal led Akali government. He was posted as Director, Public Relations.
Mr. Puri further said that a five member committee under the Chairmanship of Mr. Shiv Singh, President Lalit Kala academy, Arts Council Chandigarh has been constituted to look into the arrangements of the exhibition. All the required arrangements for the Photo Exhibition would be made by the information and public relations departed, he added.

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