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REPORT SADBHAVANA YATRA 2005 Multiple
religions, denominations, languages and cultures in India is like a beautiful
rainbow in the sky. Any attempt to bring uniformity will deprive the beauty
of this great country. Living in harmony and peace with people of other
creeds, castes and languages is the social foundation of this nation.
Eight artistes, and three others committed to bring a change in the attitudes of prejudice, ill will and suspicion about people of other communities, set out in a vehicle TemoTrax Toofan covering a distance of 3200 kilo meters for this pilgrimage from Kashi to Kurukshetra, ie from the cultural and religious capital of India to the battlefield of the mythological times. They visited 46 towns and cities and a few villages too, giving the message of harmony and peace through cultural programmes of songs, dramas and speeches. Posters depicting the need of communal harmony with beautiful poetry written in Hindi, banners with slogans on plurality of Indian religions were exhibited all along the campaign. The posters were gifted by Kala Commune, a group of artistes living in Varansi as a community. There
were basically two types ofprogrammes: Intermediate and High school students of Allahabad, Khaga, Fatehpur, Kanpur (Hindu, Muslim and Christian schools), Agra, Mathura, Bilari and Huttut villages in Jyotiba Phule Nagar and Moradabad districts, Shahjahanpur, Unchaulia, Barabanki, Faizabad, Shahganj and Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh actively participated in the programme. Some students of Delhu and Haryana states namely, Kherakhurd, Sonepat, Panipat, Samalkha, Karnal and Neelokhedi also took active participation and pledged their commitment to the cause of communal harmony. More than 4000 students of seven schools in Sardhana town in Meerut district had a rally along with us on 25th November, the concluding day of the Communal Harmony week announced by the Central Government. There were also programmes in the colleges and universities of Agra, Kurukshetra and Meerut. 1.
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