What's kept me busy last couple of months?

In my last couple of posts I have written about this cultural showcase of Maharashtra a group of us have been creating for our local library. The project which we undertook for the Marathi Mandal in MK has been a great success and we have got excellent reviews about it from many people visiting the library.It gives me great pleasure to give all my readers a glimpse of this colourful project. But firstly my heartfelt thanks to all those bloggers and photographers who let me use there photos on this project . Photos without which this showcase would not have been possible. Thank you all once again!

We divided the display into 3 sections of which the central section was alloted to Maharashtrian culinary delights

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The second section was devoted to painters and paintings of Maharashtra in which the Warli folk art played an important role

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We were given 3 glass showcases in which we could keep actual exhibits. In this one you see Bhaatukli (Toy Kitchenware), a Warli print T-Shirt, Puja Thali, Tambya-bhanda(steel water container and cup) and Paan or weeda which is eaten as a palette cleanser after a meal.

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The third section was for Sculpture and Mural Art of Maharashtra which obviously consisted of all the temple caves like Ellora, Ajanta, Elephanta etc

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We stitched small jute sacks and filled them with staple grains of Maharashtra and put little flags in them as labels . We have also put on display our masala dabba with all typical Maharshtrian spices. Also on display are a few traditional kitchen gadgets like the Sorya which is used to make chaklis and the sheera mould etc.

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Before we put up our display another group displayed information about the history of Maharashtra in which they exhibited this Pagdi and Tutari etc.

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Wish all of you could have been here to see the actual display . It was a great experience and the praise that we have recieved for it has made all the efforts we took completely worth it.