INDIAN CULTURAL NIGHT

Namaste!!Sasriakal!!Wadakkum!!Salam!!. 19th November, this was the day that we all had been preparing for weeks and waiting for it.We woke up earlier then directly headed to Waseda University. On our way to the university, we proceeded for Brunch to an Indian restaurant "Curry and Naan" that gave us the taste of our delicious Indian food.

After this we moved to the venue for the preparations for Indian day. This was the day we all had been waiting for since long so that we could put forth our rich and pure Indian culture to the Japanese people. We headed to the Okuma Garden and started decorating the hall. We put up our tricolor Indian Flag all over the flag. we also arranged all the food stuffs that we had brought all the way from India like Chakli, Bhakarwadi, Dosh , bebinca and some farsans. We also had a set up of different Indian spices on display so that the Japanese people could view them.

INDIAN CULTURAL NIGHT

Final Preparations

It was around 4.30 pm, the Waseda students and teachers began entering the venue for our cultural night. We all were nervous but excited too. The function started by a short speech welcoming our guests by our teacher in charge Sachin Moraes. and followed by a presentation on Goa and chowgule college. Aditi and Aishwarya were the hosts for today's eve. The Function began by a Fashion show depicting different states of India where all of them were dressed in different attires. After our Fashion show , we had a great glance of Indo contemporary and bharatnatyam performance by Aditi & Alysia. It was a nice and sweet performance, People loved it. Then we had an Aarti recital by Sankalp which created a positive Atmosphere. Soon after this we began our Goan dance called Dhekni by Sankalp, Aishwarya , Chetna , Joanna , Kimberly. It was a lovely performance that took us to the goan villages. In between, we had few spot quiz questions, we all were very shocked to see that Japanese people know alot about our indian culture After this we were all set to take the japanese people to the world of Bollywood by dhinchak performance by Shayzad and Alysia. The crowd enjoyed the performance and they gave us a big round of applause. Soon we moved to our next performance Lavni which was performed by our student Sushmita. It  was an energetic Performance that gave us the maharashtra tadka.

We then headed towards the Mando dance ( Shayzad Alysia Aditi Sushmita Sankalp Chetna Vanessa Joanna Aishwarya Kimberly)  followed by Sachin sir. We were moving towards the last part of our function , we gave a dhamakedar bollywood performance Rendered to our lord ganesha. It was a powerpack perfformance that took us to the streets of maharashtra during Ganapati Visarjan. After this we concluded our function by our Indian National Anthem and the Indian snacks were served after this and the japanese people loved the food.

Then we began the Jam up session. where we drapped the sarees for girls and Lungis for boys. It was so good to see the sporty character. The dance session was a total blast. The japanese students were grooving best on the beats of bollywood  music. They gave us a lot of compliments. I would really like to thank all the students for giving their best and Sachin sir and Dange sir and we are also thankful to the ICC staff.

Khickik Smile please

Dange sir with Japanese students

Japanese students in Indian attire

Fashion show

Indo-japanese Friendship :p

BY Shayzad Shaikh 

      TY B.sc