Over 1,000 Participants Sing Vachanas of Basavanna at Belagavi Festival
More than 1,000 students, teachers, and community members sang 35 Vachanas (devotional poems) of the 12th-century saint Basavanna during a Vachanotsava event organized by KLE Society at KAHER University in Belagavi on Tuesday. The 75-minute performance featured participants ranging from five-year-old children to 80-year-old seniors, with singers dressed in white and wearing Vachana Shalya with Basavanna's portrait. The event aimed to introduce younger generations to Basavanna's teachings on equality, social justice, and the dignity of labor, with organizers promising to make it an annual large-scale festival.
Over 1,000 students, teachers, and community members participated in a Vachanotsava (festival of Vachanas) organized by KLE Society at KAHER University in Belagavi on Tuesday, singing 35 devotional poems of the 12th-century saint Basavanna. The performance lasted approximately 75 minutes and featured participants spanning ages from five to eighty years old, including students from various KAHER departments (medical, dental, homeopathy, pharmacy, nursing, and others), faculty, doctors, and staff members. The singers, dressed in pure white clothing and wearing Vachana Shalya with Basavanna's portrait, performed in a disciplined and rhythmic manner on the university campus steps, with the Vachanas set to tunes composed by late C. Ashwath. Chancellor Prabhakar Kore, the chief guest, expressed appreciation for the performance and pledged to organize a large-scale Vachana festival annually. The event was designed to promote Basavanna's 12th-century teachings on equality, caste abolition, women's rights, and social justice, with religious leaders emphasizing that such saints belong to humanity as a whole rather than to any particular community.
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Over a thousand sing Vachanas in Belagavi
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