Bhubaneswar, Dec 22: After few years of gap this year the Tableau of Odisha will again participate in the prestigious Republic Day Parade, 2016 at New Delhi.
The Design of the Tableau for the coming Republic Day Celebration -2016 at New Delhi has been highly pressed and selected to participate in the Republic Day Parade at New Delhi.
The Tableau of Odisha presents the Maritime activities and glorious tradition of Boita-Bandana Festival of ancient Odisha. This more or less concentrates around the Sadhava tradition in Odisha, who were carrying out internal and external trade.
The mariners of Kalinga endowed with a sound knowledge of navigation continued to have commercial, socio, cultural and political relations with South East Asian countries like Srilanka, Java, Sumatra, Bali, Borneo, China, Burma, Cambodia, Champa, Malaya an Thailand. Designed and prepared under the guidance of Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Minister Information and Public Relations & Health and Family Welfare, Commissioner-cum- Secretary of Information and Public Relations Department Manoranjan Panigrahi and Director Sushil Kumar Das this Tableau has been visualized and designed by the Senior Designer of the Information and Public Relations Department Pradyumna Kumar Dash.
The 3D model of the Tableau is prepared jointly by Sri Das and Gajendra Kumar Sahoo of Bibhut Kanungo Art College, Bhubaneswar. Music Director Sushanta Kumar Padhi has done the music arrangement for the Tableau.
This 3D model of the Tableau has been highly pressed by the Ministry of Defence of Govt. of India and has been selected to participate in the Republic Day Parade at New Delhi.