The exhibition ‘Mandap’ on world of Bamboo decorative and ritualistic exhibits organised by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Tribal Arts and Dialects Development Academy and Department of Culture, Madhya Pradesh at lokrang festival 2017 impressed thousands of visitors.

 Bamboo in some form is related to conservation of culture to rituals carried out from birth to death in human life. In Shrimadbhagvat Katha, Dhundkari who is the demon elytron listens to a story from inside of seven knotted bamboo.

 Every day a knot broke and on the seventh day he was released from demon elytron, which proves bamboo has been used on various spiritual occasions from ancient times. Conversion into bamboo in plant life is helpful in achieving emancipation. The ultimate goal of each organism is achieving emancipation.

 The present exhibition of Bamboo gives message to communities living mutually and the strength generated by living in unity. Bamboo is green gold amongst tribal communities, bamboo’s life is full of benevolence as well as it provides major means of livelihood.

The exhibition has bamboo decorations, jewellery, objects of domestic use, baskets for eatables and bamboo objects used in festivals-galas, customs-rituals.

  Bamboo has outstanding contribution in development of folk crafts. Bamboo crafts and traditional techniques are vanishing in the modern world. This exhibition is a humble effort towards conserving this centuries-old craft form for the society which lives on remembrance and simulation. In the exhibition eatable bamboo Khorisa, bamboo utensils, bamboo in construction, agricultural, as medicine, musical instrument made of bamboo, flute, Kagul, Ba-flute, dance, weapons, the importance of bamboo, assumptions related to the community has been exhibited in detail.

 Bamboo can be readily seen in beliefs and of lifestyle folk, tribal and nobility of India. The country's ethnic-tribal clothing are related to bamboo. The exhibition Khumri, Churki, Chitba, -Tukni, Bijana, Duuri, clarinet, Jitka Parra, cage, welded, flowerpot, reliquary, toys, parrot, peacock, bird, wing, clack, atomizer, Japin , Jhupali, Japliyya, Supa, stool, chair, oatmeal, cribs, Denkuli, and other exhibits can been seen.