Computer Orientation Programme

A five-day Computer Orientation Programme was organised from 15th to 19th January 1996 for the Academics and Officials of IGNCA by the Computer Cell of Kalanidhi in co-ordination with the UNDP Project Professionals. More than fifty participants obtained basic knowledge on the usage of important Software Packages like MS-DOS, WORD STAR, WINDOWS AND MS-WORD. As a follow up an intensive training was also envisaged through tutorials, keeping in view the applications in their work.
Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Academic Director while reviewing the feedback remarked that with this background, Computer Culture is set in IGNCA. She further stressed that this Culture be effectively used by all the Academics and Officials in their day-to-day work.

IGNCA Film Wins Rajat Kamal

The film Yelhov Jagoi : Dances of the Lai Harabora, Produced and Conceptualized by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan and directed by Shri Aribam Shyam Sharma, received the Rajat Kamal award, for the best documentary of the year 1995. Sri Sharma is a reputed actor and director of Manipuri theatre and films. The documentary, in colour, runs 30 minutes.

Lai Haraoba is an annual festival, celebrated with a great deal of joy and sanctity by the Meitei people of Manipur valley. It is perhaps the oldest and the most important folk art-form of Manipur. The festival re-creates the myth of creation of the Universe-Heaven, Earth, and Life in all its manifestations, as expressed in flora, fauna and her mankind. The moment of release of creative energy is registered in the dance of the Maibis as the torso breaks from complete stillness into a slow movement, the movement itself recaptures the primal rhythm. The dance gestures and announcements of the Maibis depict the growth of the child in the womb, his organs shaping slowly, his birth and growing up, his activities like building of house, cultivation of land, weaving of cloth, fishing etc. The dance involves as many as 364 hand gestures, locally called “Khutheks”.

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