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Bangalore youth Dussehra slammed as rave party

“It is just dance, loud music, lewd costumes and gyrations. There is no culture, no intellectual fibre in those programmes,” is the opinion of the city elders.

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The kind of programmes organised at the Yuva Dussehra held at Maharaja College Ground in Mysore have drawn flak from city elders.

“It is just dance, loud music, lewd costumes and gyrations. There is no culture, no intellectual fibre in those programmes,” is the opinion of the city elders.

“I refuse to believe that Nada Habba can be celebrated in this fashion. The costumes looked like Italian, the music sounded like South American and the dance looked typical Bollywood. It looked like a cheap filmy show to me,” said Sudarshan, a retired civil servant who had come to the venue of Yuva Dussehra to fetch his son back home at 10.30pm on Friday.

“The Nada Habba should portray our culture, but what we are doing here is taking the youth closer to the mindless western culture in the garb of Indian contemporary music and dance. I shall write to the district in-charge minister SA Ramdas about re-organising the Yuva Dussehra programmes next year,” said Govinda Acharya, a senior advocate.

Krishnamurthy S Rao, a lecturer in a local engineering college, felt there should be less of dance and music in the Yuva Dussehra and more of intellectual and social matters, which should kindle social awareness and scientific inquiry among the youth. He said the programme should include interaction with scientists, social leaders, writers, intellectuals, economists etc.

Rao said he had attended a youth festival in the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, in 2010 where the students had organised a video conference with the management experts of Linux software and General Motors of the US.

He said it is important for the youth to have expert view to improve their career or seek higher knowledge from experts. “But in Yuva Dussehra, that intellectual fibre was missing. Instead, the popular filmi culture was promoted,” he grumbled.

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