12.11.2021
The 3rd year RUSH Hindi group students and school children of various schools in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the city of Tarusa, Kaluga Region, presented a cultural program in VISHWARANG-2021
November, 12, 2021
Vishwarang-2021, Bhopal, India
For the third year in a row, the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) represents Russia at the International Tagore Literary and Cultural Festival "Vishwarang-2021".
"Vishwarang was started in 2019 by Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU) as a global platform that celebrates Indian literature, culture, art, music and cinema. It is one of the biggest festivals to promote and spread Indian culture across the world.
Mr. Santosh Choubey- Chancellor at RNTU and AISECT Group Chairman is an organizer and director of the festival.
This year more than 30 countries fr om 6 continents and more than 5 thousand people in India presented cultural programs at the festival.
The 3rd year RUSH Hindi group students and school children of various schools in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the city of Tarusa, Kaluga Region, presented a cultural program in Hindi and Bengali.
His Excellency D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador of India to Russia, emphasized the importance of the participation of the RSUH students, who for the second year in a row represent Russia in this event. The Ambassador of India wished all the participants of the large-scale Vishwarang - 2021 festival further creative success.
In 2021, the Festival of Literature and Culture "Vishwarang-2021" was held in the category "Children's Creativity". RSUH students invited several children's groups to participate in this event.
Secondary School No. 653 of the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg named after Rabindranath Tagore: Ms. Yulia Beshchuk, Ms. Elena Shuvalova and Ms. Irina Sokolova, Hindi and Bengali teachers told about their students who study Rabindranath Tagore' s work not only in Russian but in Bengali and Hindi languages also. Students recited poetry and presented their artwork on Indian themes.
Ruslan Agranovskiy, 9A grade student. Poem "Bideshini" in Bengali;
Arina Polyanskaya, student of grade 8A. Poem "Din par din" in Hindi;
Daria Skalaba, grade 8A student. Poem "Shesher Kobita" in Bengali;
Valeria Kolesova, student of grade 9A. The poem "He bandhu, kya chahte ho tum?" in the Hindi language;
Evgenia Selezneva, Nadezhda Palekhova, Veronika Belova, 7B grade students. Poem "Purano Sei Diner Kotha" in Bengali.
Drawings dedicated to India and R. Tagore were presented by:
Silvia Dumikian, 9B grade student. Drawing: "Hemanalini from Naukadubi";
Ksenia Osipova, 9B grade student. Pattern: "Chokher Bali";
Feruza Abdullazhanova, student of grade 7A. Drawing "Shesher Kobita";
Irina Shumarova, 7A grade student. Drawing "Lotus";
Tatiana Chernova, student of grade 9A. Drawing: - "Taj Mahal";
Elleonora Bashnina, 11A grade student. Drawing "Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore".
2. Dance school "Arjumand" presented a dance based on the historical film "Bajirao and Mastani".
3. The duet of sisters Ekaterina and Elizabeth Rajans through dance conveyed the whole story, which is typical for Indian dances, wh ere every movement is a word.
4. Children's dance school "Karamelki" (Tarusa, Kaluga region, Head - Irina Ermoshina) showed two dances telling about Indian cultural traditions and history:
1) Dance "By the Stream". Dancers:
Anastasia Basova
Varvara Gorina
Anastasia Dorokhova
Anastasia Solomonova
Vera Matveeva
Irina Danilkevich
Lyubov Ershova
Milena Tremasova
Ruzaliya Sabirova
Victoria Gorbacheva
Polina Polyakova
Anastasia Sharaevich
2) Dance "Statues". Dancers:
Elizaveta Nuycheva
Mira Dolzhonkova
Victoria Erokhina
Amalia Kazakova
Alexandra Trotsyuk
Anastasia Brudnikova
Tatiana Brudnikova
Anna Vicol
Ksenia Belovintseva
Veronica Timofeeva
Alexandra Nikolaeva
Vera Sinitsyna
3) Members of the choreography dance school "Caramelki" presented a scene "Monkeys" based on an excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's book "Mowgli":
Ariana Tremasova
Veronica Gorbacheva
Ulyana Zvereva
Varvara Verzilina
Radomir Shakirov
Anna Skitalinskaya
Victoria Kharchenko
Daria Zudkina
Alina Andrianova
Emma Riot
Eva Murushkina
Leah Gimbatova
Larisa V. Tremasova
Olga Yurievna Sannikova
Elena Alexandrovna Gorbacheva
Christina Vyacheslavovna Gorbacheva
Olga Vasilievna Verzilina
Olga Dmitrievna Kharchenko
5. Pavel Frolov, 7th grade student of the music school. G.G. Neuhaus and secondary school №1363 played on the piano a piece by R. Schubert "Knight Rupert".
6. 3rd year students of the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Foreign Regional Studies recited poems in Hindi:
Amina Mukhametkhanova, recited a poem by the Indian poet Shri Naresh Naz in Hindi;
Kartikeya Parmar, a student from India, presented a Hindi poem of Indian famous poet Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician who served three terms as the prime minister of Indiaю
The RSUH Art Design Training Center’s students under the leadership of his teacher Dr. Tatiana Borisova, showed their posters and paintings on the themes of architecture, wildlife and traditions of India. The video sequence included the works of Art-Design training center graduates from the exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
RSUH 3rd year student Maria Skorobogatova sang a cover version of Adele's work - Love In The Dark.
We thank the students of the Russian State University for the Humanities for the excellent work in creating "Hindi in Russia''s video for such a large-scale international event!