The second year in a row, the Indian embassy in Cairo commemorates the famous Indian philosopher, poet, and Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, by organising a one week cultural festival under his name as a celebration of his 156th birthday. The five-day festival starts on 8 May with a drama dance based on Tagore’s work, called “Chitrangada”, presented by the Dancers’ Guild. The Tagore Festival is being organised in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, the Cairo Opera House, the Cultural Production Sector, the Dancers’ Guild, and the Indian Community Association in Egypt. The festival comes right after the end of the “India by the Nile” festival, the biggest foreign culture festival in Egypt, organised by the Indian embassy in Cairo as well. “Through India by the Nile this year we wanted to reach out to youth and different audiences all over Egypt.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 03, 2017 11:26 UTC