Padam Singh Subba, Apatan’ Memorial Lecture is an annual feature of Sikkim Akademi and as usual the programme was organised at Bhutia House near Sadar Police Station, Gangtok. The Theme of the Programme was हाम्रो मौलिकताः हाम्रो अस्तित्व and the subject was Maruni and Maruni Dance. The days Resources persons, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee Shri Naren Gurung delivered a very impresser and convincing lecture on Maruni and Maruni Dance with demonstration from his team of enthusiastic artists. For all the participants on the audience side, the presentation was impressive and touching.
The year’s lecture programme was presided by the renowned Folk singer Shree Durga Kharel from Darjeeling, West Bengal. Mr. Kharel, in his address appreciated the objectives of the programme and said that we survive with our own original Traditional culture and instead we die out in the process of modernisation.