'Long March' arts festival: Sanskrit University main campus lifts trophy

KOCHI: The concluding day of 'Long March', the arts festival being held at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in Kalady, saw the team from the main campus soaring ahead of others with 226 points. Koyilandi and Tirur bagged the second and third places with 91 and 69 points, respectively.

Performing arts such as Keralanadanam, mohiniyattam, bharatanatyam, folk dance, kathakali, kathak, odissi and ottamthullal, besides off-stage events like debate, elocution and recitation were held on Day-3 of the festival.

The event accounted for over 82 competition items, both on-stage as well as off-stage. Continuing with their aim to attract attention towards societal issues, the organisers held the third day events under the banner 'Justice for Asifa', the eight-year-old who was drugged, gang-raped and murdered at Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.