‘No community can survive without folk songs, folk culture’ Says Bidyasagar

A Correspondent

Tamulpur: “Without folk song and folk culture, a caste or a community can’t survive in this world. Modern cultures are like colourful flowers, but folk songs and folk culture are like the roots of a tree. Just as without roots no tree can survive, without folk songs and folk culture, no caste or community can survive,” said prominent singer of Assam, Bidyasagar while addressing a mass gathering held at Laupara on Saturday evening during the closing ceremony of the 15-day long Bangeet and Lokogeet workshop under the Chief Minister’s Samagra Gramya Unnayon Yojana organized by Tamulpur Cultural Centre at Laupara Janakalyan Sangha, Laupara in the district of Baksa, in collaboration with Sangskritik Navajagaran Abhijan Samaj.

The meeting was presided over by Chakreswar Deka, vice-president of Tamulpur Press Club. In his welcome message, Cultural Development Officer of Tamulpur Cultural Centre, Juganta Bayan said that Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had taken initiative to preserve the endangered folk songs and folk cultures throughout the State and this workshop was also part of this programme. More than 70 students of the locality participated in this workshop, he said. District Information and Public Relation Officer Hemchandra Pathak also addressed the meeting and he described elaborately about the history of folk songs of Assam.