Rendering of Rabindra Sangeet and presentation of the Telugu version of the Bengali dance ballet Chandalika scripted by Rabindranath Tagore at Kalabharathi, Vishakapatnam, marked the celebration of the 150th year of the Gurudeb. A.P. State Renaissance Artistes and Writers Association (RAWA), headed by S. Gopala Sastry organised it along with the secretary of the local Bengali Association, Aamra Kajori (a few of us) of the Kali Temple on the Beach Road.
Secretary of the Bengali Association Dilip Acharya individually and together with Paromita Chakraborthi besides R. Kukherjee, Dilip Karmarkar, Kesab Chakraborthi, Sukanta Banerjee and Barnali, Chayanika, Anamika, Smitha, Phalguni and Sima among others tunefully rendered Rabindra Sangeet for an hour. Ranjit Bhattacharya on tabla and Somanath Dey on flute lent good support.
Then the ballet,
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