This last week has been filled with wedding fever here at Sanskriti.
The owner, Mr O P Jain, has two of his grandchildren getting married this month and this week marks some of the first events of the wedding ceremonies.
Indian weddings are usually a big deal but here at Sanskriti it has been done on a grand scale. The first event was held last night, a classical Indian concert held in the amphitheatre.
Artists and craftspeople had spent the past two weeks painstakingly preparing the venue, intricate designs were painted on carefully prepared clay floors (the clay is mixed with cow dung to help deter mosquito’s and applied by hand), traditional orange garlands of flowers covered every gate and pillar and vast bags of pink rose petals were scattered into the water, hundreds of traditional small clay lanterns were suspended between pillars to create curtains of ambient lighting. It was an amazing spectacle. This next week will see further ceremonies which will culminate next week with a dance and music performance by South Indian dancers and musicians here at the Kendra.