Glimpses of NRITYANJALI

Shades of Dance

The students of  Nrityanjali presented beautiful dance programme on 22nd April 2018 at Vivekananda Auditorium. They performed different variations of dances. We have honourable chief guests Mr. Dipankar Sinha, Mr. Manish Garg, C.A. Radhey Shyam Bansal.

There are some of the Glimpses of that programme.

















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