
Curtain goes up on three-day HOPE FEST in Thrissur on Wednesday
The Hindu
The hybrid festival will showcase performances created during the pandemic
The curtain goes up on the three-day HOPE FEST, an year-end cultural festival, from Wednesday on the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi campus in Thrissur.
“The festival is organised on a small-scale but with a vision. It envisages rekindling the spirit of live performances for artistes and art enthusiasts that had come to a standstill due to the pandemic. The festival is a combination of live theatre performances, digital theatre and music performance,” said Akademi secretary Prabhakaran Pazhassi.

The Union and State governments provided support in several ways to the needy people, but private institutions should also extend help, especially to those requiring medical assistance, said C.P. Rajkumar, Managing Director, Nalam Multispeciality Hospital, here on Saturday. Speaking at a function to honour Inspector General of Police V. Balakrishnan and neurologist S. Meenakshisundaram with C. Palaniappan Memorial Award for their contribution to society and Nalam Kappom medical adoption of Type-1 diabetic children, he said the governments implemented numerous welfare programmes, but the timely help by a private hospital or a doctor in the neighbourhood to the people in need would go a long way in safeguarding their lives.












