

Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Shri Vasudevand Ji, H.E. He appealed to the pilgrims to celebrate the 75th Independence Day by planting saplings from 1st to 15th August across the country. RSS senior leader Indresh Kumar said, Sindhu River is synonym to name India. He hoped the Sindhu Darshan Yatra would help in understanding the Ladakh region and the people and the Army who are guarding the country’s boundaries in the toughest climatic conditions. He appealed to them to keep Sindhu river and environment clean during the Darshan Yartra. On the occasion, Mr Mathur also released a 50 rupees worth commemorative envelope with Sindhu Ghat and snow covered mountains in the backdrop, celebrating the 26th edition of Sindhu Darshan Yatra.Īddressing the Yatris, Mr Mathur said, India has a culture of respecting the rivers. Mathur inaugurated the Sindhu Darshan Yatra by hoisting a national flag at the ghat. The much awaited four-day Sindhu Darshan Yatra began at Sindhu Ghat in Shey village of Leh, after two years break owing to COVID pandemic. On the first day of Yatra, hundreds of pilgrims took a dip in Sindhu river. And even in that lecture medium that I had started to lose faith in, it is surprising.The 26th Sindhu Darshan Yatra began with festive fervour in Leh. Its openness is gentle it’s not a confessional. It’s also funny, in that joyfully camp, catty, queeny way. I’m probably not bigging it up by talking about it like we’re at a Catholic funeral. And a shared vulnerability to depression. A mass drop of Grindr dickpics in the vague hope of some 'honest’ muscle. The gay son in a charity shop jumper on Pontypridd high street. From a city of anonymous sanctuary to a fractured, forgotten, 'dead town’. Instead, this belonging runs much deeper: back through several generations through brothers who took different paths through the seams underfoot via the solace of a middle-class bubble to the space where there was once a pit tower, torn down by the Tories and replaced with coal-shaped stone. He presents it as a piece about his complicated relationship with his father - why they’re so different, why their relationship is so difficult - but I’m not sure it’s as simple as that. He’s made a show about wanting to belong, about all the different ways in which we can belong. And he certainly hasn’t made a show about mining “from a gay perspective”, which is the question he fields from his dad at the start of his process. But David Sheppeard hasn’t made a show about mining.

At uni we did a project about a participatory museum exhibition in Coalville and I had to be talked down from starting a next-gen colliery band. I booked for Hard Graft because I like art about mining. No more secret brilliant artists being secretly brilliant. It’s as thoughtful, as self-aware as… well… as a Chris Goode show is. Was I walking round with my eyes closed or something? How has this guy snuck past me? Hard Graft is as elegantly and cleverly structured as a Chris Goode show. He’s based in Brighton and I even fucking lived there for a bit. Had you all just been keeping David Sheppeard to yourselves or what? Because I swear I’d never heard of him before. (Just gonna throw the word ‘palimpsest’ in here because it’s a bit too wanky to squeeze in anywhere else but when the fuck else do you get to use 'palimpsest’ exactly)
