International Sufi Festival India 2011

A Project by Divine Abode in collaboration with Interfaith Foundation, India
In October , Ajmer will be hosting Ajmer’s first World Sufi Festival, with the aim of capturing positive messages about peace and love that have been around for centuries and recognised in the east and west. These messages are often conveyed through arts and culture.The International Sufi Festival India 2011 is a yearly festival that will take place in Ajmer, Rajasthan. It brings together performers and artists from around the world.

Divine Abode, is a non profit organisation which is currently organizing the event to promote International Peace & Oneness. The festival aims to capture and project the messages and spirit of Sufism.

Sufism is a mystical way of life, which emphasises the unity of all religions. It plays a part in the lives of people of all religions and the festival will greatly promote this by helping to better understand where we have come from and what we have in common. It will highlight the importance of treating all countries with fairness and respect and bring to all people more understanding of our heritage and history.

The festival promises to be an entertaining and enchanting week with events inside and outside. It’s from 21st Oct 2011 to Oct 27th 2011 with lead up events including workshops for the community. The festival itself will showcase performers, artists, crafts, fashion, poetry, from the local area, India and abroad, encircling both the traditional and modern around the Sufi theme. Workshops and presentations are also given with discussions of Sufi themes
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Host: Divine Abode, a Spiritual registered Organisation
About the organiser:  Ms. Gulshaa Begum , a  Entrepreneur, Internet Visionary, a Trained Fashion Designer & Visual Merchandiser, her Passion Towards Art, and Compassion Towards Humanity… a Mystic on the path. Healing and Counselling is a part of her existence. Gulshaa Begum hails from a family of Sufi Saints. She is dedicated to the blessed work of Hazrath Gulsha Qadri Chishti. Her ancestor a Sufi Saint from the Northern Frontiers of Afghanistan, who travelled across the Indian sub- continent and later settled down in Southern Indian Coastal Region. The Dargah of the blessed saint is situated in South Kanara.Gulshaa Begum was blessed to experience a spiritual awakening which opened up her experience of God’s reality. This profoundly transformed her life, and after this experience she was able to feel God’s presence everywhere, and came to understand from within the meaning of the teachings that had so eluded her earlier. The difference between religion and spirituality allowed her to discover her own experience of God’s reality, and from this inner experience, to understand and embrace not only her own religious background, but all religions.
Collaboration: Interfaith Foundation, India
Interfaith Foundation, India, was setup as a registered charitable and non-profit Public Welfare Trust in 2004 with its registered office at R-265 B, Greater Kailash I, New Delhi, with a vision of the world of togetherness, brotherhood, cooperation and united efforts for the common good of human kind – a world in which men stumble not, in which they walk straight and live for each other- a world free from ignorance, poverty, superstitions, darkness, exclusiveness, fundamentalism and obscurantism –  a world in which people are free to profess and practice the tenets of their respective faiths which ought to unite mankind as the children of one Supreme Reality, living in peace and happiness.
To achieve its goals, Interfaith Foundation, India, has been organizing conferences, discussion meetings at important venues and disseminating knowledge regarding the commonalities among world’s major religions through printed materials. The founder President, Dr M M Verma is an eminent scholar of Interfaith, known nationally and internationally; having organized and addressed more than forty national and international conferences – from New York to Nagasaki; having seven published works to his credit. The VIPs associated with Interfaith Foundation, India, in advisory capacity are : Air Chief Marshall N C Suri (Retd.), Swami Shantatmanada (Ramakrishna mission)  Prof. Tahir Mahmood (former member, Law Commission GoI), Dr Mohini Giri (President, Guild of Service), Dr J S Neki (renowned Sikh Scholar) Ezekiel Issac Malekar (Rabbi), M K Kaw (former Education Secretary, GoI), among others.
For details regarding Conferences, Events and Published Works along with Photo gallery.

Please visit the website: www.interfaithfoundationindia.com

Venue Partner: ATD & Divine AbodeMedia Partners: Marwah Studios, A creative enterpriseNai Duniya, Urdu Weekly IndiaHospitality Partner: Swad Di Dhani Our Support Partners:Temple of Understanding, IndiaNational Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH) – New DelhiKashmir Sufism Society, Srinagar, KashmirJudah Hyam Synagogue – New DelhiRai Foundation – New DelhiAnjuman Moinia Fakhria Chishtia Khuddam Khwaja Sahib Syedzadgan, Dargah Sharif, Ajmer, RajasthanAradhana Tents & Decorators, AjmerHotel Data InnAjmer Property & Builders – Ajmer, RajasthanBangladesh Guest House, AjmerLok Kala Sanstha, AjmerMudra Theatre, AjmerThinking Space, Real Estate & InvestmentMovement of the Triangle – Sacred Art Gallery

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