Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under its popular summer series of ‘Do and learn’ educational programmes commenced the training workshop of Paddy Craft of Orissa from May 3 to May 11. In this workshop, artists from Orissa, lakki Chandra Munda, Shadda Shiv Munda and Madan Munda are imparting training of Paddy craft.
No formal tools are used for making these tribal craft of Orissa. The raw material required is mainly un-husked paddy seeds of uniform size. The only other raw material that is needed is thin bamboo sticks and strong yarn in red, green and yellow colours. The process involves tying by hand each individual paddy seed to two thin bamboo sticks that are placed parallel to each other at a minute distance but are sufficiently close enough to hold the paddy seeds tightly in a straight line.
This is a very painstaking and repetitive job that requires high degree of concentration and unmatched dexterity. Each and every seed of paddy has to be knotted individually. Garlands of paddy seeds are thus formed with different colored threads which are then pieced together to give different shapes. The length of each of these paddy garlands is approximately one yard. About ten paddy garlands are required to create 30 pieces of Goddess laxmi in a medium size. Each of these pieces is sold at a nominal rate. After household chores are over women and children usually perform the hard task of making the paddy garlands in their spare time; both the men and women then craft the final images. light weight and bright-coloured, Dhanamurti is a beautiful add-on to your space, bringing about an aura of culture, richness and diversity to it.
Along with that, a workshop on Gond Painting will commence from 4th May, 2016. The registrations for all ‘Do & learn’ training workshops are open.
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya and Official language Department, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India are jointly organizing a colloquium on ‘Official language’ at Rock Art conference hall of IGRMS on May 04, 2016 from 11am. The Chief Guest of the colloquium will be Ved Prakash Gaur (Director, Official language, Union Ministry of Culture) and Mahipal Singh (Secretary, Bharatiya Bhasha Evam Sanskritik Kendra). The topic of discussion in the colloquium is “Role of Hindi in Indian Culture and Unity”. The Head of Organisations/Offices and Official language officers of all Central Government offices in Bhopal will participate in this colloquium.