A team of twelve members
service minded artistes from Gadag, have descended on Mysore for
dasara, not to take part in any events, but for a noble cause. They
are putting their best efforts to spread awareness about this modern
surge called AIDS by traditional methods.
As large crowed will be
visiting Mysore to watch world-famous Jumboo Savari, the artistes
have made best use of this. Wearing traditional dresses, depicting
AIDS as goddess of death entering into households, the artistes are
creating awareness among people about control and prevention of AIDS,
through folk songs, skits, short plays, magic show, Kamsale, Dollu
Kunitha, Folk Songs, Veeraghase, and Yakshagana.
Three women members of the
troupe dance and sang together conveying the message not to maltreat
AIDS victims, but instead look after them humanely. Their scripts,
songs, thought providing narration of plays, drew the attention of
people in large number. The gathered people were seen greeting the
troupe for their campaign against AIDS.
Through folk songs, skits
they are informing people about importance of usage of condemns, and
other prevention measure to be taken-up for safe sex, problems faced
by HIV positive, the way society treats them and much more .
Team Leader D Prakash said
that its need of the hour to educate people about AIDS. “When
awareness spread through theaters, it reaches very effectively to
people and even easy to make illiterate aware of the issue.”
The troupe is involved in
sensitising people by staging street plays based on various social
issues from long time. In Mysore, they are organising this event at
150 places across the city, twice in a day starting from October 16.
The shows ends on October 25.
The troupe thanked
District Health and Family Welfare Department and District AIDS
Prevention and Control Unit for providing them the opportunity to
stage plays during dasara.
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