In view of the worldwide crisis of coronavirus, a creative initiative was taken by the Culture Department Madhya Pradesh Government by connecting the artistes of the country and State, which has received an encouraging response.
The writers, poets and artists invited by the Department of Culture from time to time in its events, were requested to send an encouraging message to the society on their behalf in this hour of crisis, which they circulated to all through their social media Will do. In response, writers and artists from across the country recorded their messages in video.
These messages have been circulated by the Directorate of Culture in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp group of Culture expressing heartfelt gratitude to these artistes. These messages are being circulated as they are received. So far, about 25 messages have been received from the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Indore, Hyderabad and the process is going on.
The names of the artists who have sent the messages that have been circulated so far are from Mumbai including Gazal singer Penaz Masani, Kathak dancer Uma Dogra, actor Shahbaz Khan, singer Ravi Tripathi, theatre director and Bollywood creative director Jayant Deshmukh, Kathak dancer Malti Shyam.
From Rajasthan Madhubhatt, Shekhar Actor and Artist from Rajasthan University, Gujarat), from Hyderabad Mangla Bhatt (Kathak dancer), Sarita Sharma from Delhi, Poetry, Ashok Nagar (Standup Poet) from Shajapur, Ashok Bhati (Poet) from Ujjain, Uday Bhawalkar (Dhrupad Singer) from Pune, Anil Rastogi from Lucknow , artist Suchitra Harmalkar from Indore, Kathak dancer.
From Bhopal, Akhilesh Gundecha (Pakhawaj player), Bharatnatyam dancer Lata Singh Munshi, Playwright K. G. Trivedi, Theatre artist Jyoti Dubey, poet Madan Mohan Samar, Shweta Gunjan Joshi from Dhar, Mansingh Bhondia (Kabir singer) and Abhijeet Sukhdane (Dhrupad singer) from Gwalior.