{"id":15962,"date":"2014-01-20T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2014-01-20T21:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:13:28","slug":"nishagandhi-fest-to-treat-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/nishagandhi-fest-to-treat-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishagandhi Fest&#8217;14: 7 nights of cultural extravaganza!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong>\u00a0Nishagandhi Festival 2014- the seven magical evenings that showcases the beauty and grandeur of Indian classical dance and music will start from Monday. The inauguration of 7-day long Nishagandhi Festival organised by Kerala Tourism was done be by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long Nishagandhi Fest, held at Nishagandhi open air auditorium, will start with a Bharatanatyam performance by actress Navya Nair. It will be followed by Carnatic music by P Unnikrishnan.<\/p>\n<p>On the next day, Rina Jana will perform Odissi. Musical fusion by Rahul Sharma and group will follow. Wednesday will witness Kuchipudi by S Divya Sena and Bharatanatyam by Rajashree Warrier and the day will conclude with a Hindustani music concert by Suchismitha Das. On Thursday, Ayswaria Warrier will perform Mohiniyattam followed by Bharatanatyam by Sarada Thampi and Jaswinder Singh\u2019s gazal.<\/p>\n<p>The maiden performance on Friday will be Vidhun Kumar\u2019s Kuchipudi. The other two performances are Seetha Sasidharan\u2019s Bharatanatyam and Poushali Chatterjee\u2019s Manipuri dance. Likha Rajan\u2019s Mohiniyattam, M Jayachandran\u2019s Carnatic music and Sushmita Banerjee and group\u2019s Kathak are the other events scheduled on that day. Actor Kavya Madhavan will perform Bharatanatyam on Saturday evening and the day will conclude with a musical fusion by Karthik and group.<\/p>\n<p>There will be Kathakali performances presented by eminent masters every day at Kanakakkunnu Palace auditorium at 6.30 pm. A one-day workshop on performing arts will be held on January 23, the third day of the festival. Nishagandhi fest also has a food festival conducted by Kudumbashree and a crafts mela at Sooryakanthi ground.<\/p>\n<p>To make Nishagandhi festival more global, the Tourism Department will webcast every performance of the event from this year onwards. Last year, the tourism department uploaded the videos of the performances on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:\u00a0Nishagandhi Festival 2014- the seven magical evenings that showcases the beauty and grandeur of Indian classical dance and music will start from Monday. The inauguration of 7-day long Nishagandhi Festival organised by Kerala Tourism was done be by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The week-long Nishagandhi Fest, held at Nishagandhi open air auditorium, will start with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3753,"featured_media":15973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}