Mysuru Dasara day 7: People enjoy art fair, pet show, drone display and 10K run

Mysuru: On Day 7 of Dasara, it was time for people to see display of several breeds of dogs at a pet show at J K ground; enjoy the art fair at Lalitha Kale and Karakushala Dasara at CAVA campus next to the DC office.

Attractive creative formations by 3,000 drones at a drone show in Bannimantapa ground was like icing on the cake. Several people also participated in a 10K run organised by the Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports. Amid dog lovers, even dog squad of city police also displayed their dogs at the Pet show.

Art fair features works by government school kids

The art fair provided a platform to exhibit several forms of art works by artists. They even gave opportunity to exhibit paintings of government school students including H B Vishnuprasad a class 9 student of Government school of KM Doddi, Maddur taluk of Mandya district, and V Jagdish, a class 10 student of Adarsha Vidyalaya at Sosale in T Narsipur taluk of Mysuru district.

K Sangeetha, Art teacher at Government high school of G B Sargur village of H D Kote taluk had come along with her students Sinchana and Bindhu of Class 10. She displayed several paintings of various forms of her students.

Some major attractions at the fair were 3D miniatures of heritage structures by K Thulasi Raman and team; traditional Mysuru paintings by Trupthi Pradyumna and H Leelavathi; paintings including portrait of CM Siddaramaiah by artist Mohan Singh; coffee paintings by Amit Dewhare; paintings in the form of key chains, book marks by Vaishnavi Adiga and more.

People were seen getting live charcoal portraits by M N Sirish, pencil drawing caricatures by Vasanthakumar. They even got names carved with micro art on chalk pieces by S Dhanush. They even bought frames of handwritten Kannada slogans by M R Nayan, Preetham Kanpeth.

People continued to purchase Banjaara Lambaani traditional chadars by Roopa T Jadhav and team from Beladadi Thaandaa, Gadag district, North Karnataka; and jewels made of brass with Dhokra craft by Kamalkanth Patnayak from Odisha.

MLA Tanveer Sait inaugurated the fair along with Deputy Special Officer of Lalithakale, Karakushala Dasara Sub-Committee, CAVA Dean A Devaraju and CAVA Administrative Officer Nirmala Matapathi.