Egypt by the Ganga; Grand festival that manifests deep rooted cultural ties

News Bharati    19-Nov-2019
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Mumbai, November 19: Maharashtra’s newly elected governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari yesterday inaugurated the Mumbai edition of 'Egypt by the Ganga' festival organized with the support of ICCR. The festival showcases the glory of two ancient civilizations and deep routed cultural ties. 
 
The festival has been organized by the Egyptian Embassy in India and the Indian Council of Cultural Relations. The Festival is being celebrated in the cities of New Delhi and Mumbai, and includes miscellaneous activities such as ballet performances, handicrafts exhibition, cultural symposium and caricature art exhibition.
Egypt, among the earliest civilizations, with thousands of years of recorded history, maintained a strikingly unique and complex identity for millennia. The first Egyptian cultural festival in India ‘Egypt by the Ganga’ aims to promote and showcase the cultural and intellectual heritage of Egypt, emphasizing the importance of people to people interaction in developing the relations between both countries.
 
Egyptians enjoy various activities brought by the annual festival of ‘India by the Nile’, and Indians get a flavour of Egyptian culture during the first festival of ‘Egypt by the Ganga’. The 4th edition of `India by the Nile’ festival was organized in Egypt last year showcasing diversity of the India’s culture, arts, music, films and cuisines. The fair was aimed at building enduring partnership between the two ancient civilizations.
India and Egypt, natural allies with colourful cultural legacies, and with affinities towards the performing and visual arts, cuisine and objets d’art, have come together in wonderful artistic partnerships. It is culture which weaves together bilateral relationships in the real sense of the terms – no dialogue is more effective and memorable that that which is based on the matrix of a country’s heritage, an integral part of its identity. And it is dialogue which is proliferated through partnerships in art, that forms the building block for enduring future relationships.