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Streets of Mylapore to celebrate four days of local culture

For the past 17 years, during the month of January, the streets of Mylapore painted a different picture with various cultural activities. It is the prestigious four-day Mylapore Festival organised by Sundaram Finance. The 18th edition of the festival to be held from January 9 to 12 around the Kapaleeswarar Temple and Nageswara Rao Park, will see around 30 events and 400 artistes.

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The festival will start on January 9 at 7 am with a mikeless group kutcheri at the Nageswara Rao Park by students from Sruthilaya School. The events at the main stage in front of the 16 pillar mandapam opposite the Kapaleeswarar Temple on the four evenings starting at 6 pm include Bharatanatyam dance drama presentation, folk dance and Indian music choir concert. The main highlight of this year’s festival is the Indian Gymnastics show that will be held on January 12 at 6 pm. Another highlight this year is the theme music concert and talks in the evenings in a heritage bungalow in Palathope (Vedanta Desikar Street).


“Today, the Mylapore Festival attracts a wide cross-section of people to savour the ‘Flavour of Madras’. Traditional games (pallanguzhi, dayakattam), kolam contests for kids and adults, rangoli contests, food walks, heritage walks, temple talk, traditional dance drama, folk dance and music will be part of this year’s festival,” TT Srinivasaraghavan, MD of Sundaram Finance, informed.

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