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This mountain village was once so poor that not even a bird could fly there. That’s why everyone called that village as ‘Ani Mo’. After many years a singer came there. His name is Leon Khang. He started living there. Fainting of music began throughout the village. ‘Ani Mo’ gradually became a sparkling clean music village. Bird calls are also heard.

Bengalis live in this remote mountain village of Yunnan, China. ‘Ani Mo’ was filled with Bengali and Indian provincial songs and dances. Although it started in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Artists from East India and North East India arrived in Kunming and Dali cities to represent the country at the 7th China South Asia Cooperation Forum organized by the Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Kolkata. Purpose, cultural exchange. Led by musician Ork Mukhopadhyay, the team of ten included three dancers Niloy Sengupta, Anusmita Bhattacharya, Sagarika Mohanty from Bhubaneswar. There was poet and singer Phullara Mukhopadhyay, singer Thangjamang Kipgen from Manipur, painter Jugal Sarkar.

There were three journalists in this group. Among them were Ravi Shankar Dutt, a journalist from an all-India Hindi media and Arkamoy Dutt Majumder, a journalist from an all-India English media, besides the representative of ‘Sambad Pratidin’. Zhang Zhe and Wu Na of Yunnan University are always ready to help this team. Representatives of South Asian countries including India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal also came to participate in the forum at the Heikeng Conference Hall in Kunming on June 11.

A robot greets guests as they enter the building next to Tian Chi Lake as pictured. Just by saying ‘ni shi, ni shi’ he comes forward and shakes hands with the guests. Even tells four things about himself. And with him the robot Sermeya. When he put his hand on his head, he stopped in joy. As if standing up and wanting to caress

At the end of the opening ceremony, there is a cultural program in the other hall. Fullra Mukhopadhyay and Ork Mukhopadhyay’s Bengali and provincial songs along with three dancers Niloy, Anusmita, Sagarika danced to a folk dance performance. After this, Bengali, Oriya, Manipuri artists from Kolkata exchanged cultural ideas with Chinese artists at Kunming’s Yunnan Federation of Literacy and Art Circles and Yunnan Arts University. Several paintings drawn by artist duo Sarkar were displayed at the event. Ork, Thangjamang, Phullara’s songs and poetry, Nilay’s dance and choreography, Anusmita and Sagarika’s Odissi dances, China.

The remains remain in Yunnan’s indigenous villages, home to 25 communities. There the black flute ‘Thu Liang’ is played by Ching Phu of the Thimpo community. Ork sang folk songs with that flute. Again Thangjamang, Niloy, Anusmita, Sagarikara danced to the beat of the drum of Oha community. People of this community live in the mountain music village ‘Ani Mo’ in Dali, another city in Yunnan, China. This village is also a walnut village. There are old model TVs at every corner of the mountain road. Only music programs are shown there. With the efforts of the Chinese government, a stage for folk artists has been built in this village. Ork Mukhopadhyay’s khamak also sounded on that stage. “Ani Mo” is filled with Ork’s song and three dancers’ dance and Orkmoy’s folk songs. A few years ago, many furnitures in the village were broken in an earthquake. Now this village is being rebuilt by burying trees in that broken furniture. ‘Ani Mo’ conveys the message that nothing is permanent in this world.