Ramlilas go hi-tech, to be promoted through social networking websites

Lord Rama joins Facebook

Ramlilas go hi-tech, to be promoted through social networking websites

Spending time on Facebook and micro-blogging website Twitter is soon going to be a spiritual experience.
Apart from friends and relatives you will also be able to connect to Lord Rama online, courtesy Ramlila.

Coming soon: Preparations are on near the Red Fort in old Delhi(above)
and in other parts of the city for Dussehra. file pic

Organisers of the Nav Shree Dharmik Leela Committee have decided to upload videos of the stage performance on Facebook and update the audience on programme schedules and related info on Twitter.u00a0

Apart from the online promotions, SMS updates would also be sent to the people in the area about the scenes to be staged during a particular day and the special shows planned.

"We are going to take advantage of the technology available to us to raise awareness and promote the spiritual message of Ramlila among the people," Brij Mohan Sharma, member of the organising committee said.Sharma pointed out that they have made special preparations to woo the Commonwealth tourists.

"We have planned special traditional Indian welcome for the foreign tourists. We have invited delegates from seven Commonwealth contingents that are in the city to participate in the Games," Sharma told MiD DAY.
"We will greet them with special platters of exotic Indian food. Apart from that we have also arranged for Spanish, German, Japanese and English cuisine.

Apart from that we will also serve them the famous street food of Delhi-6. I believe they will enjoy it a lot," Sharma added.The Games mascot Shera would also be there to welcome the tourists.
"We have got Shera too. I hope that we will get a better turn out than the Games," he said.

Tourist Rush

Delhi's Ramlilas, organised during the festival of Navratri that begins October 8, will woo Commonwealth Games tourists with English translators, pamphlets and air-conditioned rooms.
According to organisers of Ramlila at the Red Ford Ground, they would woo the foreign tourists, by providing them with a separate air-conditioned wing, that would also have translators to narrate the Ramlila in English. This would help explain them its significance and the core meaning in easy language.
The organisers will also hand out English-language pamphlets on the history of Ramlila. The Ramlila will have a big screen with English subtitles. The move comes just one season after the Ramlila organizers performing in various areas went hi-tech and successfully put the cultural dance-drama mirroring Indian culture and heritage on youtube.com.

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