The Municipal Corporation’s Cultural Centre at Anakkulam, opened on Sunday, is step taken towards the city’s development, writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair has said.
This is because the growth of a city is not in its high-rise buildings or malls but in the development of its culture, according to the Jnanpith laureate.
Inaugurating the cultural centre here, he said the centre could be a stepping stone in regaining the ‘Culture of Peace’ that the city lost somewhere in the course of time. He also said it was the responsibility of the public and the Corporation to maintain the centre. He said that it should be ensured that the centre did not go the Tagore Centenary Hall way.
Mayor A.K. Premajam, who presided over the programme, said the cultural centre would be a platform for absorption of talent into the city milieu. MLA A. Pradeep Kumar inaugurated the training centre while MLA Purushan Kadalundi inaugurated the Koothupura.
Before the inaugural function, Kozhikode Abdul Nasar rendered ghazal while Lokadharmi theatres staged a play ‘Chiriyum Chinthayum’ after the function.
The cultural centre was constructed at a cost of Rs.5 crore of which Rs.60 lakh was allotted by the Central government.
