Through the festival, the organisers want to identify leaders within the community, build capacities to be able to create solutions for the gravest issues and be the platform to showcase the artistic talents of the community.
Acting as a bridge between the experience-hungry city dwellers and the rural wisdom holder villagers, the festival played host to about 100 individuals, some of which included people from different parts of the world.
Sarai Jattan is a tiny a village in Sultanpur Lodhi tehsil of Kapurthala district. But its Panchayat and residents have showcased a rare consciousness towards the environment that most of us conveniently chose to be apathetic about.
From fasting and feasting to fireworks, Dussehra is celebrated in different ways in different parts of India even as central essence of the festival - the triumph of good over evil - remains the same.
King Mahabali, who is considered to be one of the greatest kings to have ever ruled Kerala, is believed to ascend to earth from netherworld to meet his subjects.