Sir,
In the past  few months, walking around the streets or scrolling down our Facebook timeline, we have noticed the beautiful graffiti in the city, which is  a contribution of the artists of Walk For Bihar.

‘Walk For Bihar’ inaugurated on October 28th, 2016 by the Arts and Culture Minister, Shivchandra Ram at NIFT, Patna campus aims to bring Patna on the Art Map of important cities in the world, with the help of innovative and radical Street Art and Video Installations.

Art is and will always be the favoured medium for the dissemination of ideas that favours no class, no group, no political party, yet is transformational in its message. Public Art, already popular in various world metros and fast catching the imagination of people in the big towns, is remarkably suitable and visible for this kind of awareness campaign.

With the help of innovative and radical Street Art and Video Installations, their aim is to cover the theme of Bihar’s potential in development, social justice and human liberty. Walk For Bihar is an initiative to promote and invite large-scale public participation using one or several Art forms in service of Bihar’s economic and cultural development.

Be it the Mauryans, Mughals or the English, they all patronised art and Patna, being a gateway to the east, was always a witness to it. Under the patronage of the English in the 18th and 19th centuries, Patna  became one of the centres for “Company School” of painting, and from here developed  the Patna Kalam Paintings dealing with everyday life of common man.

Patna has started painting again, this time the canvas is the wall, and the idea is to bring back the prestige which we lost due to our negligence and the stereotypical hoax made by rest of the nation.

It will be interesting to see how much the citizens of Patna admire the gift of these artists. After all creative art will make the city beautiful only till you keep it protected and safe!

Yours Truly,
Khushi Kishore
Department of Communicative English with Media Studies- 2nd year

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