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Sindhu Darshan-the festival at Leh that has been quite recently established as an annual national affair of India. The venue of the programme centres around the Sindhu Ghat between Choglamsar and Shey, on the banks of the river Indus. The event is a part-tourism, part-nationalism and is meant to be an ode to the great trans-Himalayan river and intends to serve multiple purposes.
Perhaps, driven by nostalgia for the place of his birth (Sindh), the then previous home minister of India, L. K. Advani started an annual festival to highlight the spirit of unity that underlies India’s dazzling cultural diversity, way back in 1997. Today, it has grown into a major event in the Union Tourism Ministry’s annual calendar. Most importantly, it serves to promote tourism in Ladakh in particular.
An important symbolic activity of ‘mingling of cultures’ by pouring waters from some of the other major rivers of India such as Brahmaputra, Ganga, Godavari, Cauvery and Yamuna into the Sindhu takes place during the main ceremony. Other activities like cultural entertainment by the locals as well as cultural troupes from other regions and states make the three day festival pretty interesting and colourful. During the year 2004, a Sindhi priest, Sadhuram Saheb, from Pakistan was a special invitee of the Sindhi Academy.
Whilst promoting tourism to this area, this festival is also a symbolic salute to the brave soldiers of India who have bravely fought the odds at Siachin, Kargil & other places. The Sindhu Darshan Festival will help forge a bond of unity with those who live in far-flung corners of the country and provide an opportunity to visit the beautiful region of Ladakh
This complex will be helpful in bringing out the unique culture of the Ladakh region and its people.The facilities proposed at the complex include an auditorium for seating 500 people, an open-air theatre, an exhibition gallery, a music room, a small library and a souvenir shop where Ladakh handicrafts could be available to visiting tourists.
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