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Skills Development Centre organises winter concert

Published: 29 Nov 2012 - 10:38 am | Last Updated: 05 Feb 2022 - 07:27 pm

Skills Development Centre, the centre for fine arts and performing arts, located at Aalata Jadeed welcomed the season by conducting a Sitar Music Night. For many years Skills Development Centre is conducting Winter Music Festival (Winter Concert) and this year famous Indian Sitar player Pandit Sanjay Despande took the audience to the world of Hindustani classical and semi classical music with his mesmerising performance.

The famous ‘Sanjaykhani Sitar’ was accompanied and supported by Santosh Kulkarni by his tabla performance. As the theme depicts – ‘Raga to Rock’ Pandit Sanjay Despande portrayed the smooth conversion of Hindustani classical music to rock music.

Tarun Basu, President of Indian Cultural Centre, Kareem Abdulla, President of ICBF, Neelamkshu Dey, Advisory Council Chairman of ICBF, K K Sankaran, former NORKA director, were present at the concert. The Peninsula