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Culture distorted
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 14 2009:
COMMISSIONER (Art & Culture), P Bharat has given a complaint letter to the member secretary of Indira Gandhi National Cultural Association, Dr KK Chakravorty yesterday stating that in the inaugural function of the 'Spirit of the North East' at New Delhi, the Manipuri episode was irregularly displayed specially, the artistes who sang the Lai Haraoba folk music in the costume of Ras Leela is a distortion of Manipuri culture and tradition.
Commissioner Bharat further informed Dr Chakravorty to look into the matter seriously so that such distortion would not repeat in future, and asked him to take action against the wrong doers immediately.
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