Annual Day[DPS NEWTOWN]- Prakriti Parikrama

DPS NEWTOWN celebrated its Annual Day on 26th November 2011. The theme was Prakriti Parikrama or Coming Back to Nature.

The backdrop and the props were all prepared by our students. The theme was related to Mother Nature.The paintings had a touch of the famous Warli Paintings.

The Warli culture portrays one of the best examples of man - environment interaction.

Nature is considered as mother by the Warlis. It is central to all their customs and traditions.

The ritual paintings were usually done inside the huts. The walls are made of a mixture of branches, earth and cow dung, making a red ochre background for the wall paintings. The Warli use only white for their paintings. Their white pigment is a mixture of rice paste and water with gum as a binding. They use a bamboo stick chewed at the end to make it as supple as a paintbrush. The wall paintings are done only for special occasions such as weddings or harvests.