This year CCRT has organized an All India Annual Cultural Festival- Indradhanush 2019 from May 18-28, 2019 at CCRT, Dwarka, New Delhi under the ancient Indian tradition of Guru Shishya Parampara. The age group of children who are a part of this festival is between 6-16years.

The second day of the Summer Festival began with the Craft Sessions which comprised classes on Gond (M.P.), Madhubani (Bihar), Worli (Maharashtra) and many more tribal and folk paintings of India. Madhubani Painting is being taught by Guru Raj Kumar Lal, grandson of renowned exponent Smt Jagdamba Devi, Padma Sri Awardee. He has to his credit many visits to Mauritius and Thailand to spread the art form and its technique.

Phad Painting is being taught by Guru Vijay Joshi. Phad is a colourful folk painting of Rajasthan depicting the glory of Rajput folk leaders i.e. Pabuji, Ramdevji etc.

The art form originated in Shahpora district under the patronage of King Sujan Singh in early 17th century C.E.
Pottery classes are being attended by a group of 25 children on rotation basis of a cycle of three days. Guru Sohan Lal is teaching the art of making flower pots, diyas, animal figures etc. Children are enjoying making vessels with clay.

The participants are learning Odissi Dance from Guru Kabita Mohanti, disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She learnt Odissi dance from Kala Vikas Kendra, Cuttack. In this class children will get familiarised with origin, various mudras, taal, and 5 components of Odissi dance i.e. mangalacharan, batu, pallavi, abhinay and moksha.

Guru Bhawana Sharma is a freelance puppeteer with know-how of using puppets in education. She has worked with NCERT, World Wide Fund for Nature, Wildlife Institute of India, Delhi University etc. Children are learning how to make glove puppets, finger puppets and hand puppets from waste material. In the learning process they will be developing stories also with the help of these puppets.

Guru Nupur Awasthi associated with Lady Irwin College, Modern School and many other educational institutions is an Educator, Communicator and professional Storyteller. The aim of Creative Writing classes is to give children happy environment where they do not compete with each other for marks and in the process unleash their creativity through writing. They are acquainted with poems, cinquain (5-line stanza), diamante (diamond shaped poetry), limerick (5 lined humorous poetry) etc.

During the classes on Songs in Indian Languages section, the second day began with the training in Hindi Geet and Oriya Geet. While the training in Oriya Geet has been provided by Ms Alpana Sharma along with her accompanist Shri Brij Mohan, the training in Hindi Geet has been provided by Sanjay Dhyani along with his accompanist, Shri Satish Kumar and Shri Jasraj Singh along with Arun Kumar. The training sessions on these national songs have been carried on gracefully in order to get the children acquainted with the beauty of various Indian languages, tradition and sense of unity.

The main purpose of this festival is to give a glimpse of our rich and varied heritage to the children and motivate them to preserve the essence of Indianess through the awareness of our Culture and Tradition. The journey has finally begun and there are interesting as well as creative activities that are to follow in the upcoming days of the Summer Festival, 2019.