As a tribute to Indian Cinema, the India-Sri Lanka Foundation and the Indian Cultural Centre are pleased to support Abhee; a dance drama organized by Moksha Art of Dance on 11th of March 2014 at 6.30pm at the Bishop’s College Auditorium. The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, H.E. Y.K. Sinha, will be the Chief Guest, at the event.

Ms. Moksha Samarasooriya who received her Kathak dance training at Bhathkande Music Institute, Lucknow, India, along with her students, will be performing in this programme. The event will feature a fusion of the well known Indian dance form, Kathak, with modern free styles and folk traditions for an unforgettable combination of four Abhinaya’s. This is an attempt to reinterpret the popular culture using the same iconography but fashioning it with colors of classical dance.

The India - Sri Lanka Foundation, which is supporting the event, was established by a Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments of India and Sri Lanka in 1998 in order to foster India - Sri Lanka relations through the enhancement of economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation and to promote greater understanding between the people of the two countries. Thrust areas, identified by the Foundation for promoting understanding and cooperation, between the two countries are education and culture, archaeological studies, agricultural research, science and technology, health, technical training, development studies, and women’s studies.

Most recently, as a part of the celebrations of the 65th Republic Day of India, the India - Sri Lanka Foundation had organized a musical performance titled “One World-One Voice Spiritual Symphony” by the renowned singer, Ms Sonam Kalra of The Sufi Gospel Project and her troupe, an India-Sri Lanka Artists’ Week, and a lecture on “Ashoka: interweaving the Emperor’s story with Archaeology” by Dr. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History, University of Delhi.

For any further information, please contact India – Sri Lanka Foundation (Colombo Secretariat) on Telephone 2389924/email:islfcolombo@gmail.com; or Indian Cultural Centre on Telephone 2684698