Biggest Kakatiya Arch for World Telugu Conference

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 02:50 PM

Biggest Kakatiya Arch for World Telugu Conference

Hyderabad, Dec 11: A mammoth stage that will match the scale and significance of the World Telugu Conference (WTC) is getting ready at the Lal Bahadur Stadium here.

The dais, which will showcase Telangana culture and traditions, with depictions, including the State Bird (Palapitta) and the historic Kakatiya Arch, will be about 170-foot wide, with the five-foot base to have 1,000 pillars.

A Kakatiya Arch, standing tall at over 90-foot high and 34-foot wide will be a special attraction, with the State's emblem engraved on it, will be set up on the stage. Two Palapitta birds will be perched atop both the ends of the arch. The middle of the arch will have a pair of folded hands, decked up with Tangedu, the State flower. With the conference to be a mega literary event, Telugu alphabets will be emblazoned on wall of the stage.

An eye-catching Kakatiya arch running to a length of around 1,500 feet and including 47 pillars representing Warangal Fort pillars and including sculptures from Ramappa temple will form backdrop for the main stage.

All the pillars propping up the arch will depict legendary personalities of State right from Rani Rudrama Devi, Bammera Pothana to Daasarathi Krishnamacharyulu and Kaloji Narayana Rao.

CV Ambaji, the brain behind the stage, said the whole design was drawn out as an effort to reflect the depth of the State's culture, its traditions, history, and temples. "The stage is being created using fiberglass and plywood," he said.

Apart from these, two elephants and deer would be placed in front of the Ramappa temple sculpture. Prominent traditions of the State from Bathukamma to the Telangana Thalli statue too would be set up at both ends of the stage.

Ambaji said the works had begun on December 7 and would be over in six days. As the conference was being held for the first time in the State, the preparations would be on a massive and magnificent scale, displaying the State's culture on one platform, he said.