Youth Festival 2019

Youth festivals are mediums to celebrate the young talent and energy. This year's youth festival of Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University was called Rangmohan; celebrating the two Mohans of Indian culture, i.e. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Lord Krishna. The festival was full of a varied range of events; ranging from literary events to cultural and fine art events. Being participant of this festival I learnt many things, apart from the obvious skill of dealing with people; which is by far has proved to be toughest job for me! Anyways, moving to the events, I wasn't able to witness as many performances as are required for writing this blog; for instance, unfortunately I wasn't able to attend any dramatic performances, However, that isn't going to be an excuse for not writing about the dramatic events; since I was there for the practice session of one of them😅 Considering the fact that Gandhi used to fight for the contemporary social issues of his time; the plot of this performance dealt with the question of the LGBT community in India, It spoke about not just the conflicts of identity, but also about the identity struggles in the socio-cultural set up of the nation, in every sphere of their life; i.e. from their education to choosing their life partners. With the legalization of the consensual gay sex by the Supreme Court of India, a new outlook was framed towards those identities. How far has that made a change towards the socio-cultural perspectives and opinions of the citizens is still a question. But that doesn't deny the fact that, at least they can voice out their struggles to the legal system whenever needed. The play direction and characterization was well managed and over-all it was a great performance----- sorry practice😅 

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