The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) will organise a two-day exhibition on the heritage of Indian sari, Dhage ki Dharohar, as part of the Independence Day celebrations.
Divya Shivaram, chief executive officer of the Cantonment Board, will inaugurate the event at the Bharatesh Central School in Halaga near the Suvarna Soudha on Monday.
INTACH members and students will bring in over 40 types of saris from across the country and speak about their unique features.
They include Muga, Kanjivarams, Paithani, Kanchi, Patola, Pochampalli, Kashmir silk, Lehariya, Bandhni, Ilkal, Pattu and Odisha silk. Most of them are completely handmade.
Boards explaining their heritage will be put up near the products. Later in the day, experts will demonstrate different kinds of drapes of saris.
Students will screen films on the heritage of the sari and the way it evolved over the years. They will speak about the Geographical Indication certificates that have been awarded to various types of saris. A special section will be devoted to saris woven in Belagavi, like the Wadagaon and Gokak. Some students will set up stalls to sell locally made cotton saris.
Members of Parampara, INTACH Heritage Club at Bharatesh Central School, will organise the event. It is among the seven Parampara clubs started by INTACH Heritage Education and Communications Division (HECS).
INTACH Belagavi Chapter has organised teachers training programmes, heritage walks, conducted national-level competitions, seminars and exhibitions and released a book. A new book on Architectural splendours of Belagavi by member Smita Surebankar will be released soon. INTACH chairman Major General L.K. Gupta launched the Belagavi Chapter in 2016. Retired judge Jinadatta Desai is the convenor of the local chapter and Vinod Doddanavar and Meena Mohite are co-conveners.
INTACH was founded in 1984 in New Delhi with a vision to spearheading heritage awareness and conservation in India. It is counted among the world’s largest heritage organisations, with over 200 chapters across the country.
It operates through various divisions such as Architectural Heritage, Natural Heritage, Material Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Heritage Education and Communication Services (HECS), Crafts and Community Cell, Chapters, INTACH Heritage Academy, Heritage Tourism, Listing Cell and Library and Archives and Documentation Centre.
