SPIC MACAY Chapter of the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM-T) was launched recently with an inaugural performance by artists from Manipur Academy, Imphal, mentored by Thanil Singh.
A splendid performance of ‘Pung Cholom’ – a dance (cholom) borrowing elements from the Manipuri martial arts, performed to the beats of the percussion instrument, ‘pung,’ held the audience spell bound. Chinmaya Arjun Raja, State coordinator, SPIC-MACAY, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, said SPIC MACAY has turned the idea initiated by a group of IITians in the 1970s into a sustained national movement spreading India’s rich classical and cultural heritage.
SPIC-MACAY, the acronym for the ‘Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth’, is a voluntary organisation that conducts programmes of classical music and dance, folk arts, crafts, yoga, classic cinema screenings and heritage walks in school and college campuses.
