Lohri celebrated with festivities in city

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 12

Virsa Vihar celebrated Lohri with artistes performing traditional festive folk music and dance. The festival was also celebrated across various educational institutions and cultural centres over Lohri savouries and songs. ‘Dhiyan di Lohri’, a cultural event by held by a popular local mall, promoted ‘Save the Girl Child’ with fun-filled cultural activities and energetic and traditional dance performances by over 200 underprivileged children. The Mayor, Bakshi Ram Arora, and his wife, Anjana Seth, besides Principal of Holy Heart Presidency joined the team of the mall to celebrate Lohri with the patrons.

The Sri Guru Teg Bahadur College for Women, Amritsar, too, celebrated the festival with traditional spirit. The students presented folk songs connected with Lohri as Principal Nanak Singh highlighted the importance of this seasonal festival and congratulated the students. Sri Guru Harkrishan Senior Secondary Public School, Sultanwind Link Road, observed the celebration of Lohri by lighting the bonfire and highlighting the importance of a girl child. Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School at Friends Avneue had Anil Joshi, Cabinet Minister (Minister of Local Bodies), as the chief guest. Appreciating and emphasising on connecting the students with their culture and heritage, Joshi said such traditional festivals were symbolic of the end of evils in society. The students also joined the dignitaries in flying kites with the message of "No Chinese Strings" written on them. Schools also organised cultural performanaces of gidda and bhangra to make the celebrations entertaining.

DAV Public School bore a festive look and the whole campus reverberated with the cheers of ‘Sunder Mundriye’.