East Zone Cultural Centre

The East Zone Cultural Centre has its headquarters in Sector III, IB 201, IB Block, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, which is also known as the Cultural Capital of India[1] and most commonly City of Joy is situated in the Indian state of West Bengal.It is one of the seven Zones established in India.The Indian states which are under the Eastern Cultural Zone are West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa (Now Odisha), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Sikkim, UT Andaman & Nicobar Islands.[2] This zone is home to three classical dance Odissi, Sattriya and Manipuri dance, and Rabindra Nritya Natya. classical music Odissi music and semi-classical music Rabindra Sangeet.

Rabindranath Tagore is Asia's first Nobel laureate and composer of India's national anthem
Swami Vivekananda was a key figure in introducing Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and USA,[3] raising interfaith awareness and making Hinduism a world religion.[4]
A traditional, Pung cholom performer.
Odissi performer
A Manipuri performer strikes an evocative pose.

The EZCC has been functioning from 1985 and playing a significant role promote the numerous ethnic cultural centres and groups of excellence of the eastern parts of the India. And the objective of EZCC is projection and dissemination of eastern part of India’s traditional culture.

The members of the EZCC are 1. Cultural Affairs Deptt. Govt. of Assam, 2. Director, Arts, Culture & Youth Affairs Deptt. Government of Bihar, 3. Director, Department of Art, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, Govt. of Jharkhand, 4. Commissioner (Art & Culture), Govt. Manipur, 5. Director Culture, Govt. of Orissa, 6. OSD, Cultural Affairs & Heritage Deptt. Govt. Sikkim, 6. Secretary & Director, ICAT, Govt. of Tripura, 7. Joint Secretary & Ex-Officio, Director of Culture, Govt. West Bengal and Director and 8. Department of Art and Culture, ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS Administration.

There are various schemes sponsored by The Ministry of Culture, Government of India gives grants to the ZCCs. These schemes are National Cultural Exchange Programme, Theatre rejuvenation scheme, North East Programme, Guru Shishya Parampara and young talent search. To promote the culture in youth there are many competition organise by EZCC in following fields :

To preserve this Indian tradition, the EZCC organizes various Guru Shishya Parampara schemes, which include:

An exhibition of painting and sculpture is going on at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the city of joy Kolkata.
The Mohiniyattam is being performed to commemorate of 150th birth anniversary of Tagore. It was an Indo-Bangladesh joint celebration in 2011 in Kolkata.

West Bengal's capital Kolkata is the largest city of this region.The states of Orissa and West Bengal share some cultural and linguistic characteristics with Bangladesh and with the state of Assam. Together with Bangladesh, West Bengal formed the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal before partition in the year 1947.

Odissi dance is the oldest survive classical dance, Pattachitra the most influential ancient classical painting, classical Odisian unique ancient architecture Kalinga architecture like Konark, Lingraja, lalitgiri etc. Oriya is the only modern Indo-Aryan language accorded the status of a Classical Language in India, and Odissi music is claimed to be the classical Music among Karnatik and Hindustani Music.

Other Regional Cultural Centres of India

The Cultural Zones of India are seven overlapping zones defined by the Ministry of Culture[5] of the Government of India to promote and preserve the cultural heritage of various regions of India.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Pielou, Adrianne (March 4, 2011). "India: Calcutta, the capital of culture". The Telegraph.
  2. ↑ http://ezccindia.org/
  3. ↑ Georg, Feuerstein (2002). The Yoga Tradition. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 600. ISBN 3-935001-06-1.
  4. ↑ Clarke, Peter Bernard (2006). New Religions in Global Perspective. Routledge. p. 209. ISBN 0-7007-1185-6.
  5. ↑ "Zonal Cultural Centres". Ministry of Culture.
  6. ↑ West Zone Culture Centre, West Zone Culture Centre, retrieved 2010-12-15, ... West Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) with its headquarters at Udaipur is one of the seven Zonal Cultural Centres set up during 1986-87, under the direct initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India ...
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