 we will have a very beautiful Sarot recital by Thiru Arnav and Thiru Neelimesh Antabla, Thiru Abhinav and Okals and Keyboard. It will take a couple of minutes for them to get set and give us this musical treat. They've already performed here and it was really a treat to the ears. Good evening and Namaskar. It's really an honour and privilege for all of us to be the part of this festival and it gives us an immense joy and happiness to get this opportunity to perform here today. I'm Arnav Bhattacharya and Neelimesh Antabla. We are from Kolkata and we got the opportunity to perform in Pondicherry here many a times but this is I believe the most unforgettable moment that we are going to perform today here. Thank you so much and thank you for coming here and encouraging us all and I really thankful to Laliji for he has been always a local guardian for us in multiple sense and thank you so very much for giving us this much of hospitality and immense blessings on us. Thank you so much. I will be starting off with Ragh Charukishi. It's a rag which depicts the beauty of a woman. I'll be first playing the alab which is the short introduction to the rag followed by a rhythm cycle of 16. It's first the low tempo and then the high tempo which we called as Dhrut Bandish. Thank you so much. That is for today. We have a small audio clipping from Mr. Gangayamaran who was supposed to be here with us today but due to his busy schedule it got cancelled at the last moment. The audio will be played shortly. I am Gangayamaran speaking. First of all I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Gangayamaran for inviting me here. When I heard that I was coming here as much as I could, he told me that I would be playing a program called Munruvani which is a program called Kuberayagam. I wanted to release the invitation and it was a great pleasure for me to do it. It took me a long time to finish the program and I was able to do it. I was able to do it with all my heart. I was able to do it with my heart. I was able to do it with all my heart. I was able to do it with all my heart. I don't know what I am going through today. When I finished the meeting in Kodambakkam, I was able to finish the program in Ananakar. I was able to do it. I was able to do it. I was able to finish the program in Ananakar. I was able to do it. I think that many people are worried about a good project. There is a lot of difficulty saying that I am not able to finish this program. Because many people have not yet understood that I should be able to do it. I should be able to do it. But, I am able to finish the program in the first day only. I should be able to finish the program in the first day only. I am sure that even if I am able to finish this programme, I would like to say that I wish you all the best for the next few days. I wish you all the best for the next few days. I wish you all the best. I am sure that I will be able to reach there on time. So, I would like to express my gratitude to you all. I would like to ask you all the best for the next few days. I wish you all the best for the next few days. Call the beautiful delegates, our governor madam and secretary madam to occupy the dies. I would like to ask our secretary, Dr Jayanthi Ravi to give a few words. Good evening everybody. Honourable Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry, Dr Tirumati Tamarasey, Soundarajan madam, who is also a very esteemed member of our governing board. We also have a member of the high level committee for the 150th birthday which is chaired by the Honourable Prime Minister, Dr Sampadan and Mishra. We want to specially acknowledge his presence here. He has responded to our invitation. He is here and of course all the sisters and brothers of Auroville, the children as well. It has been such a beautiful week of celebrations. I want to specially acknowledge the artists, Abhinav and also the Santur, the artists that we had today. Lalaji for making it happen, all of you. And it's been such a beautiful week. I want to share that this idea of the festival was actually given by madam. So that was a surprise, isn't it? So madam, it was her idea. She said that we must have more and more of things that bring all of us together and positive things. Because this is what Auroville was also meant for. It was meant to be a cultural township with a lot of activities that bind us together. Madam, I must really thank you for it and also say that the entire team worked in a very short period. We will be felicitating some of the core group members and acknowledging the contribution made by so many. I mean we cannot name all of them. It was indeed a beautiful coming together of people not only from Auroville, but we also had a lot of support from the Ashram, Pondicherry Ashram and the Sri Aurobindo Society, the other centres, Lagras because we are also having webinars and with the Delhi Ashram Gnostic Centre. So it's a very unique coming together in the 150th year of the birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and the 75th year of the independence of India, the Amrit Mahotsav. That all the family members of the Aurobindian family, Aurobindonian family are also coming together. I also want to say that about two weeks back I had the privilege of attending the one year completion festival of the Honourable Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry. She's also as you know the Governor of Telangana and I was amazed to see the complete breadth and width of work she has been doing, the kind of excellent positive leadership during Covid times when being positive is not considered good from the Covid point of view as she humorously remarked that day. But with great fervour she's herself a very, she has been a very successful medical doctor, gynecologist was taken training internationally and has been a very successful practitioner. So bringing all that fervour into it whether it's the health sector, vaccination, Covid measures to really follow the protocol in Telangana and by herself leading I remember the first time I called on her she said I volunteer and she taken up a very backward tribal area where there was a lot of resistance for taking the vaccination and she herself sat and got herself to lead by example. And then excellent work in the field of education, health, Anganwadi's. So when we saw a beautiful video we felt very, very inspired by the wonderful work she's doing. She as a member of the governing board has been supporting us tremendously and is very keen to, she's a great devotee of Anne, the mother and is very keen on seeing mother's dream actually manifest here which would really help all of us build a beautiful city which will be a city of goodwill and humanity for the entire world and so on several occasions when we call her we sometimes disturb her late in the evening early morning but immediately she picks up and is very responsive. We want to really thank you ma'am for all your support, all your inspiring leadership contribution. So we again thank you for choosing, she was actually in Kanyakumari and she has come all the way to attend this program which means the world to us. We want to thank you and are deeply grateful for your presence here and your inspiration. Thank you again. Namaste ma'am. Thank you ma'am. I would like to now request our governor, Mrs. Thamarisai Soundar Rajan to talk a few words on this beautiful occasion. Special good evening to each and everyone here. My respects to you all and my best wishes to Dr. Jayanthiravi and when our compare was in introducing her, Jayanthiravi the social activist they told. So actively, socially. So I can say it's not social activist, it's socially active. So some people's presence will create some aura, some smile, some happiness in a place like a flame in the darkness. So I compare her to that situation because you're all bright faces and your this brightness, her brightness add brightness to your livelihood and I'm really very happy to be here. And as Madam Jayanthiravi told yesterday I was in Kanyakumari the day before yesterday I flew to Kerala and from there I went to Kanyakumari and then I came to Chennai and to attend this program I came all the way here so I'm really very happy because when I came here and when I listened to the music all the tiredness which I had vanished like anything. Your music really threw everything out of my body because you imagine almost I have traveled 2000 kilometers and day before yesterday when I went from Puducherry, Puducherry two and a half hours to Chennai and from Chennai to Hyderabad one and a half hours and Hyderabad I had five to six programs and from Hyderabad I went to Kerala because there is no any connectivity to Kanyakumari every year I went to, I used to go to that Monday card Bhagavati Amman flag hoisting so I went to Kerala and met the Kerala governor and then had some interactions and early morning three o'clock I got up and went to Bhatmanabha Swami temple which is the greatest rich God, richest God in the country and I went there and then I went to Monday card then I came to Chennai and then I have returned so you can imagine the amount of travel and the amount of tiredness but everything vanished here when I entered here half it went away and when I heard the music just like that they crushed and threw it away so it's really very happy to be here and as madam said it is almost positivity I introduced my book as Year of Achievement and I coined the name as Year of Positivity because positive, corona positive is only negative but positive in the rest of the life is really positive and we imagine how nowadays in this scientific world, scientific advancement even travelling and even planning and even computerizing we are facing the difficulties and we could see how Anna drew the galaxy and the geographical that she drew it and that she introduced and she had a dream that it's no man's land that nobody can think that this is our land everybody's land so I always say that be good that's all whatever may be the preaching as Anna also told the same thing also Sri Aravindu also said the same thing be good and Anna says everything is in the work it is reflected in the work so she wanted everyone to be very active so that is the message we got from Anna Aravindu said this spiritual freedom as well as our country's freedom both together will give freedom to our country and to a spirit and to our soul so with all these preachings our country is rich in that when I was the medical student in Tanjavur Medical College when I came to first time when I came to Auroville all of the medical students were very much excited to see the Auroville and the preachings of Anna and preachings of Sri Aravindu and each and everyone when we engulfed this feeling really everyone went out as a new person as a new doctor so really there is some vibration some spirituality in this area in this world, this is a separate world and all the bright faces here really I cannot say it's like stars you're all looking so the brightness we also I also just acquired the brightness from you all and I'm really very happy let the celebrations go on let us all celebrate the life let us all celebrate our feelings let us all celebrate the preachings because India and the rich in its preachings and the aura which it's flowers and which flows from this area really enlighten each and everyone else the final thing is happiness we will be happy and we will make others happy that is the preaching of mother and Sri Aravindu let us all be happy let each and every not only this week let each and every day be a celebration for each one of us and that is the appeal I want to tell you all because the sharing, the friendship and sharing of our feeling and sharing of the happiness that we could feel each and everyone finally mother and Sri Aravindu wanted everyone to be happy let us all be happy thank you so much and I thank our Honorable Prime Minister for celebrating this and remember his name Sampadhanatha Mishra and really this 150th year is going to be a great year for Aravindu Sri Aravindu and nice followers and really I'm very happy to be here thank you so much thank you madam for your presence here it must have been a very tiring journey I couldn't even imagine when you told the whole schedule so thank you for coming again and making this even more special now we would like to invite the team who were actively involved in all the festival programs from conducting and all the organization we would like to give them a small token of appreciation which madam will give I would like to call Uma on the stage Mr. Selvaraj Mr. Kalya Mr. Balu from Mohanam Mr. Janma Jaya Mr. Marko Boso Mr. Auro Venkatesh Mr. Dev Asmita Stephanie Stephanie from Auroville Radio Geetha and Lakshay thank you so much madam good evening everyone and thank you so much thank you ma'am I want to just express my gratitude to all the it was a great realization that I just got to know that you were the reason the mood point for the celebration for the festival and I want to show my gratitude to all the women power in Auroville so two women leading it conceptualizing it and this function being led from this beautiful woman Uma to all the other names to Chitra Amma it was an incredible experience of this last eight days eight days of you know incredible celebration more than eight locations and if I'm not wrong at least in 80 programs so all this planned maybe within eight days so thank you very much thanks for all the support that you have given it's an incredible journey this last eight days thank you very much thank you so much Just to give a word, she's from a hometown. So I'm also from Kenya, just I want to say a few words in Tamil, I think it makes sense. Thank you so much, madam, for your wonderful present. Thank you. Thank you. Nandri Ayya, thank you, madam. I would also like to read out a few names to recognize them. They have also been working really hard throughout the festival. Srimoyee Dev Mohanthi, Anu Manjuda, Sai Suresh, Varun, Arun, Partha, Otto, Chandrish, Joel, Sindhya, and Sindhya. Yeah, I would like to invite Joel and Sindhuja to come to the stage. Please come to the stage. You're wanted. And special thanks to Mr. Lalit Verma for inviting wonderful artist who made our day. I would also like to call upon Meena Chiyamma who is there on to the stage. Stage because listening to the great lectures of her father, Kumari Anandan. Let us thank for the vibrant Tamil he taught to us. And the meaning of Tamil, he say, means Tamil music. Isai means music and also harmony. Isai harmony. Tamil, isai, Tamil music, Tamil harmony. Isai also means fame, famous. Tamil, isai, puhal, isai, uyerndu uyerndu selvadu. Arohanam and avarohanam nirambirukkara. Meelum kheedum selukkara in the valkaile oru nilaitha idathai pdithirukkara. Sokhodiri avaralikku. Kavingarajya, Iram, Meenakshi, nalakshi puriyavendu meandu soli. Avvayarai nenevupathukara. The great poetess Avvai told the Chola king, varapuyara. Varapuyara. Let the buns be raised. Varapuyara. Tell me. Varapuyara niruyarum. Niruyara. Nelluyarum. Nelluyara. Kudiuyarum. Kudiuyara. Koneuyarum. Do you know what is the meaning? If you raise the buns, the water level will go up. If the water level is good, there'll be good paddy harvest. If the paddy, very good harvest, then the people will be happy and they'll be paying their tax properly. And then if the people are happy, the king will definitely be happy and he will take care of the whole region. So I bless, as a senior poetess, our sister, Tamilisai, to have a very good, very good urnallarchi. Yalakum nallarchi. And I wish her good luck in every step. And she takes a lot of love and care and beauty from Auroville. Let her remain with her and she will celebrate every moment with us in her life. Nandriyama, I would like to lastly thank everybody who made this day a very beautiful one by your presence. I would also like to thank our delegates once again for coming here in spite of their busy schedule and also the artist who gave us a musical treat. And thank you, everyone. I would also invite you all on behalf of Auroville to have dinner at Sola Kitchen together. Thank you, and as madam said, let the celebration go on and the happiness spread. Thank you, have a good day. And happy birthday, Auroville, again. Yeah, I would like to request you all to stand up for the national anthem and we shall sing it ourself, yeah. In one, two, and three. Thank you, good night. Thank you.