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Imaginative tableaux at R-Day parade

By Our Special Correspondent

The prize-winning tableau of the Tribal Welfare Department at the Republic Day parade in Secunderabad on Sunday. - Photo: K. Ramesh Babu

Hyderabad Jan. 26. The tableaux put up by different Government departments at the I-day and R-day parades are not always drab and dry as one may think. They can be as imaginative as an artist's work on canvass like the one from the Tribal Welfare Department at the ceremonial parade at Secunderabad this morning.

It was live, conjuring up ideas, a scene depicting honeycombing by girijans on a hill. The painted landscape dotted with vegetation with a cliff in the background comprising combs in its hood was mounted on the vehicle. Two bare-chested girijans played combers, one on the cliff-top holding a rope by which the other virtually was hanging and soothed the bees for the extraction of honey. As the tableau passed through, the long line of the VIP audience and the crowds of commoners that clogged the ground fringes throughout looked at the cliff-hanging feat so realistically portrayed with delight and amusement. The tableau was judged the best for this year and given the first prize. The Tourism Department's tableau which showed three Bharatanatyam dancers doing the art in a "just-opened'' oyster with large-sized artificial pearls around as if indicating the thrust given to tourism bagged the second prize and the one from the Forest Department on which women and girls hugged a tree in their bid to protect greenery through Vana Samrakshana Samitis, the third prize.

The other tableaux which drew reasonable level of attention included the ones from Velugu and Civil Supplies with ration shops selling rice, the Social Welfare which showed difference between "yesterday'' and "today'' with a beneficiary owning an auto, compared to a broken-hearted Dalit leaning against a broken wall.

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