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Celebrated Kannada writer K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi, regarded arsenic 1 of the astir influential voices successful Kannada lit for his engagement with quality and society, will beryllium the absorption of this year’s Republic Day Lalbagh Flower Show, to beryllium held from January 14 to 26.
The floral event, which is slated to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, is featured connected the theme ‘Tejaswi Vismaya’.
The Department of Horticulture is expecting over 11 lakh visitors during the 13-day period.
The Glass House, the cardinal attraction of the exhibition, has been designed astir landscapes that recur crossed Tejaswi’s beingness and work, peculiarly the Western Ghats, wherever helium lived for much of his life. The main installation will feature a floral upland range, a waterfall and a replica of Niruttara, the location that became cardinal to his intelligence and originative life, the section officials said.
The theme, arsenic per the officials, was discussed for over more than a period done consultations with writers, literary scholars, and people closely associated with Tejaswi. “The objective was to construe his ideas, characters, and technological temper into ocular form. The displays effort to bespeak his worldview and not simply his image,” said M. Jagadeesh, Joint Director of Horticulture (Parks and Gardens), Lalbagh.
As portion of this, respective characters from Tejaswi’s landmark novel Carvalho have been recreated utilizing implicit 5 lakh flowers and astir 2.4 lakh plants, portion different installations see a 12-foot vertical plot titled Mantra Mangalya and a thread-art representation of the writer. Two moving angiosperm tableaux, for the archetypal time, volition ellipse the Glass House during the exhibition, adding a dynamic constituent to the show, Mr. Jagadeesh said.
Tickets are priced astatine ₹80 for adults connected weekdays and ₹100 connected weekends. Children’s tickets outgo ₹30, portion schoolhouse students successful azygous volition beryllium person escaped introduction connected moving days. Online ticketing is disposable done the Karnataka Horticulture Department’s portal, the officials added.
