Shreha Dhargalkar invited to France for India Culture Festival

PANAJI: Popular Goan social activist Shreha Dhargalkar has been invited to France in the first week of April this year, to attend the India Culture Festival organised by a local Indo-French Citizens Forum. Shreha is known in the coastal state for her social work and activism, particularly regarding women’s rights.

Shreha said she will definitely try to honour the invitation and make it to France. “India will be in the midst of the Lok Sabha election exercise in April and I am not sure of my schedule, but I will definitely try to attend it,” she told this website. Several prominent Goans and residents of Mumbai have been invited to the Festival which will be held in Lyon, a prominent French city.

Lyon, is the capital city in France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and sits at the junction of the Rhône and Saône rivers. Its center reflects 2,000 years of history from the Roman Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules, medieval and Renaissance architecture in Vieux (Old) Lyon, to the modern Confluence district on Presqu’île peninsula. Traboules, covered passageways between buildings, connect Vieux Lyon and La Croix-Rousse hill.

Meanwhile, in Goa, on Saturday and Sunday, Catholics celebrated the Feast of the Three Kings or The Epiphany, which concludes the Christmas and the New Year festive season.