Lohri warmth lights up Virsa Vihar, rally taken out against China dor

Virsa Vihar Society, Amritsar, celebrated Lohri festival with local theatre artistes, writers, art and literature lovers in attendance. Lighting up the festive spirit along with bonfire, with renditions of Dulla Bhatti folklore, singing “Sundar Mundriye”, the young artists narrated the historic significance of the legend of Dulla Bhatti, a folk hero of Punjab.

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Wishing the warmth of brotherhood and mutual harmony as Lohri greetings, noted theatre personality and director, Virsa Vihar Society, said that the traditional harvest festival of Lohri is the most culturally significant festival of Punjab. “It celebrates the arrival of a new member in the family, at the birth of a child or for a new wedding in the family. It also celebrates a successful harvest season and begins the onset of a new season. It celebrates our rick folk music, dance and folklore in a way that it passes down to the next generation,” he said.

Various city-based NGOs along with the Amritsar Police Commissionerate today took out a public awareness rally against the use of acrylic string, popularly known as Chinese string, at the behest of the district administration here today. School kids dressed up as birds, carrying placards reading ‘No More Chinese Dor’, walked through the busy city routes to create awareness and asked people not to use Chinese or synthetic kite string on Lohri for kite flying. It is pertinent to mention here that prohibition on the sale and use of acrylic string continues.

Nidhi Pathak, a volunteer for the campaign, said that the rally was aimed at engaging children in passing on the message of shunning the Chinese string to save the lives of birds and strays.