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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Tableland celebrates Arrival Day in grand style

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Some may have thought In­di­an Ar­rival cel­e­bra­tions were con­clud­ed on March 30. But the con­stituen­cy of Moru­ga/Table­land cel­e­brat­ed the 167 years since the ar­rival of East In­di­ans in grand style on Sun­day. The late cel­e­bra­tions drew mas­sive crowds from all parts of the coun­try to the Rochard Dou­glas Recre­ation Grounds in Bar­rack­pore. It was the sec­ond In­di­an Ar­rival cel­e­bra­tions in the con­stituen­cy host­ed by Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Moru­ga/Table­land Clifton De Coteau. A cur­ried duck and pep­per roti com­pe­ti­tion kicked off the day's ac­tiv­i­ties with some 20 teams vy­ing for the tro­phy. While the mouth wa­ter­ing taste of cur­ry, corn soup and a va­ri­ety of In­di­an dish­es filled the air, a large pa­rade made its way on­to the grounds fol­lowed by beau­ti­ful­ly dec­o­rat­ed bull-carts.

Arte­facts rang­ing from cook­ing uten­sils to footwear were on dis­play and sev­er­al peo­ple were award­ed for their hard work and con­tri­bu­tions to East In­di­an cul­ture, in­clud­ing well known his­to­ri­an Shamshu Deen and dra­ma stal­wart Si­ta Per­sad. De Coteau en­cour­aged the au­di­ence to con­tin­ue to cel­e­brate and ap­pre­ci­ate the in­valu­able con­tri­bu­tion of East In­di­ans to the coun­try. De Coteau, who is al­so Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, ap­plaud­ed the school chil­dren in the dis­trict for their high lev­el of in­volve­ment in the cel­e­bra­tions. The crowds took ad­van­tage of the op­por­tu­ni­ty to en­joy late In­di­an Ar­rival cel­e­bra­tions, and un­der the flood­lights at the grounds they cheered late in­to the night to the dy­nam­ic per­for­mances of Bol­ly­wood Dance Com­pa­ny, tas­sa drum­mers, Sat­nar­ine Ra­goo, Rishi Ram and mem­bers of the live band.


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