At the dawn of the day we had the Eucharist celebrated by Most Rev.Raphy Manjaly, Bishop of Varanasi and Chairman of Nav Sadhana Director and Principal of Nav Sadhana Kala Kendra along with the staff and students of the college. At 9.30 a.m. invoking God’s blessing the college. Satrarambh celebration commenced with lighting of the lamb followed by song: “Tu hi suraj, tu hi chanda, tu hi dharti, tu hi gagan…” A scintillating classical dance on Tillana was performed by the third year students of B.A. Bharatnatyam. Dr.Fr. V.Sebastian, Principal of the College, presented a short report on the activities of the college of the academic year 2012-2013. His message on the day was: “Humans are equal to animal without proper education; The purpose of education is, not only to gain knowledge, but to do good to others and to behave well with others.”  If it is not achieved, only knowledge can make a person to turn vice into virtue, brutality into patriotism, sadism into justice, which is the clear sign of absence of character. He emphasized that Nav Sadhana makes efforts to integrate cultural and spiritual training to have integral growth of the students, as well as to walk on the unbeaten path in this field of music, dance and culture. Most Rev.Raphy Manjaly, Chief Guest of the Day articulated in his speech that the language of music is love and it spreads peace in the world. It strengthens the culture and binds people of the place and world. He wished all the staff and students to be diligent, disciplined and dedicated in learning the dance and music to reach the epitome of life. Dr. Ramsudhar Singh welcomed guests and Miss Shweta Singh and Miss Sujata anchored the programme.

A special item of the day was the Kathak performance of Mrs. Urmila Sharma, a top grade Kathak artist in India residing in Allahabad, in other words, a leading exponent of the North Indian dance style known as Kathak, in which the face, the hands and feet are used to interpret the musical accompaniment. The colourful outfitted dance impressed with her graceful delicate hand and arm movements. She stole the show as she demonstrated her commendable control over the aspects of the dance. In doing so she not only, highly delighted and impressed the audience, especially through her footwork, but also communicated a spirit of abundance and joy to them. Her performance indeed drew thunderous applause from the audience. She was accompanied by Mr. Rahul Malik in Tabla, Mr. Manjit Kumar in Pakaavaj, Mrs. Sangeeta Rai in Vocal and Mrs. Urmila Sharma’s disciples Miss Suganta and Puja. This item was sponsored by Mr. Anurag Singh, Regional Officer of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). We are grateful to him for his genial gesture.