Surajkund is the annual fair that showcases the finest handlooms, handi crafts, authentic fragrances and flavors of rich Indian cuisines. National and State awardees craft persons from every corner of India wind their way to Surajkund. The craft persons from SAARC Nations are also participating in the Surajkund Crafts Mela.
27th Surajkund International Crafts Mela offers a lot of fun, frolic, entertainment and exclusive shopping. In the rural ambience, craftpersons display and demonstrate their finest crafts work that is set to capture your hearts. The authentic fragrances and flavors of rich Indian cuisines will kindle your taste buds. Tap your feet with the beats of enthralling folk dancers from the various parts of the country.
Highlights of this year
The craftspersons from all over India, SAARC and other neighboring countries would be selling the best of Handlooms and Handicrafts items.
Karnataka, the Theme State of this year’s Mela is known for its monuments, handicrafts, handloom and cuisine. Exporters and Buyers Meet is held at Surajkund Design Galleries with assistance of DC Handlooms and DC Handicrafts. Food Court has a variety of lip-smacking Indian & SAARC countries cuisines. There is an Amusement Zone with playful rides and swings. There are folk dances by schools/colleges at Chaupal daily from 11 am onwards.
Surajkund is an annual fair that showcases the finest handlooms, handicrafts, authentic fragrances and flavors of rich Indian cuisines. National and State awardees artisans from every corner of India make their way to Surajkund. The craftspersons from SAARC nations, Eurasian countries like Tajikistan, Uzbekistan & Kyrgystan would be displaying and selling the best of handlooms and handicrafts items at the Surajkund International Crafts Mela.
The Surajkund Crafts is an annual event that highlights some of the finest handloom and handicraft traditions of the country.
From 1st to 15th February rural India basks in the warmth of admiration at Surajkund mela village that lies some 8 km from South Delhi.
The Mela also celebrates the rhythms of folk theatre- and a theme State that makes each visitor marvel.
The objectives
The objectives of the Mela are to create a rural ambience for the foreign and domestic tourist to see.
• To educate patrons both from abroad, urban centers and educational institutes about the fascinating technique and skills involved in craft creation.
• To introduce crafts and craftspersons directly to the buyers and help them find their patrons.
• To Identify, nurture and preserve languishing crafts of the country and save it for posterity.
Suraj Kund is a beautiful tourist location of Haryana Tourism and in its lovely setting, folk painters, metal workers, stone and wood carvers, tie dye craftspersons, embroiders, lace makers, textiles printers, carpet and loom weavers, producers of silk fabrics, jewellers and sculptors execute and display their skills.
The fortnight long celebrations also come as a food festival. Some of the popular food traditions from Punjab come at the Punjabi ‘Rasoi’.
South Indian delicacies come in from South Indian Section. Popular Chinese and snack foods also arrive for the event along with a special stalls where patrons are introduced to the traditional foods and sweet meats of the selected theme State.
The Surajkund Crafts Mela has grown equally famous for the rhythms of folk theatre: It resonates with the formal notes of the classical genre: The heady rhythms of percussion instruments: The ballads of singing minstrels: The celebration of the simple joys of rural life and reverence of epic traditions all mingle well. All these colorful events are also presented before the audience in the open-air-theatre named Natyashala.
Some of the most delightful crafts collections of the Mela arrive from practically all over the country. In wood and cane come inlay work, rose wood carving, sandal wood from Punjab and South India. Chiki wood craft of Kashmir and some very fine cane craft come from West Bengal and North Eastern States.
Delicate sholapith and shital patti work come from Assam and West Bengal. The phulkari of Punjab, the Banjara and Banni embroidery of Gujarat and Rajasthan, the Kantha traditions from West Bengal and Tripura, lace and crochet from Goa, the Suzni of Kashmir and Mirror encasing work along with the traditional chikan work of Lucknow delight. Oxidized jewellery, sea shell decorations and agate stone work delight as also do delicate gold work and chunky silver jewellery.
Toys in wood and cane, ply and mud make the young thrill with joy. Some of the fine phad paintings of Rajasthan, the kalamkari of Andhra and Karnataka, temple paintings of Orissa, Madhubani of Bihar, fascinate. In the metal section tribal dhora work, classical south Indian metal work, glittering brass ware, bell metal and iron craft delight collectors.
In the field of woven textiles some of the finest silk work of Orissa, Patola, Bandhini of Gujarat and Rajasthan, Ikat, Kanjeevaram, Dharmavaram and temple silks of South India vie for attention with the most simple cottons of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and tribal textiles of North East India as also do the handloom of Haryana. The Various Crafts participated in the Mela every year.
Away from the hustle and bustle of city of Delhi, Surajkund International Crafts Mela is the place where you can come face to face with the rural ambience of India.
Surajkund lies in the Faridabad district, just 8 kms away from the South Delhi. The Mela is hosted by the Surajkund Mela Authority every year from 1st to 15th February. Colourful festivity is open to visitors from 9.30 every morning to 7.00 p.m. every evening.
Special conducted tours are available from Haryana Tourist Bureau at 36, Janpath, New Delhi. Buses are available from ISBT, Shivaji Stadium, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Surajkund.
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