The 10th-Century wonder Mukteswar Temple, which is the epitome of Odishan temple craftsmanship and artistic arch, was eventful on Sunday with the association of Odishi classical vocal and the instruments like flute, table and sitar.
It was to welcome the travellers on the 50th Ekamra Walk where among others four from Australia and one from Romania participated.
Sumanta Maharana had the Odishi vocal recital, accompanied by Jagat Ranjan Patnaik on the flute, Sushant Kumar Jena on the tabla and Satyaban Sethi on the sitar. Raagas like Bhairavi, Hansadhwani and Tudi were recited by Sumanta and groups. They also recited some extremely popular Odishi songs.
laura, Stefanie and Amanda along with Director Centurion Global, Ron Harper, all from Australia were happy to be part of the walk. The three Australian girls are doing internship at city cased Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), where they would be doing part of their course curriculum and would be getting credits from their Australian university for that.
Ioana Uzum from Romania, accompanied by her daughter Swapna Harrison, came for the second time and promised that she would try to visit Ekamra Walks each time, she would visit Odisha in future.
All the visitors were given souvenirs as a token of love from Team Ekamra Walks and at the end of the walk at Ekamra Van, the Forest Department distributed three varieties of Tulsi sapling as the small plant has great role in curing common ailments and has very important role to play as a natural immune vitaliser.
ACF and in-charge of Ekamra Van Ashok Kumar Mishra, while explaining the visitors the concept of the unique medicinal plant garden with the antique touch, said that by gifting the saplings of Tulsi, the authorities are creating an awareness for inspiring walkers to develop the habit of transplanting Tulsi across the country.
The young students of Art-Vision, the institute run by Ileana Citaristi, staged two nice dances, i.e. Pallavi and Abhinaya.
The participants visited the monuments like Mukteswar, Parasurameswar, Swarna Jaleswar, Kotitirtheswar, Bindusagar, Ananta Vasudev and its community kitchen, Doodhwala Dharamshala, lingaraj Temple, Sari Deula, Mohini temple and Ekamra Van.
