Making a very perceptive speech on the Ramayana, the Vedas and the Gita, the governor highlighted the values these propagated. A scholar himself, the governor who was once a Union Cabinet minister also shared details of his own effort to explain the religious texts.
The MD of State Bank of Mysore Sharad Sharma was a special guest. Mandali president Mani Narayanaswami said that the festival is now a landmark event.
The annual souvenir was released on this occasion.
It was also a time to rewind to the time when the Mandali founder S.V. Narayanaswamy Rao began the event off a Bangalore pavement. Rao was then a teenager.
Now, his visage can be seen looking at you from backdrops, the souvenir and on the side of the pandal.
The formal inauguration was followed by a concert by Kadri Gopalnath and violinist A. Kanyakumari. The artistes took at least 15minutes to get the audio levels right; it did test the rasikas but once the notes began to float strongly through the packed pandal, the music had truly taken over.
- Photos are of the venue on the evening of the inauguration and of the first concert.
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