WORLD NEWS | Singapore Hindi community celebrates Swami Dayanand Saraswati anniversary with heritage gallery and mural at Arya Samaj

SINGAPORE, 2 July (PTI) — Singapore’s Hindi-speaking community of around 100,000 celebrated Swami Dayanand Saras with a new heritage gallery and mural at Arya Samaj’s 96-year-old venue on Sunday. 200th birthday of Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

A Singapore-Chinese artist’s mural for the Hindi-speaking community was unveiled on the Arya Samaj Wall on Sunday as a major commemoration of the 200th birth anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati part.

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Spanning 36m x 8m across two buildings, the paintings depict early immigrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as Indian soldiers during colonial rule and are the largest in Singapore’s Little India district.

Braving heavy rains and having to repaint washed-out paint, artist Yip Yew Chong is helping the community take root in the heart of the Ganges by incorporating scenes from temple life along the ghats of the ancient city of Varanasi. banks of the Ganges.

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“My goal is to make my art as visually resonant and authentic to the public as possible, because I want my art to contribute to the culture and identity of the community expressed in my art,” said former accountant , Ye said, who later became a mural artist. More than 80 works were created in Singapore and overseas.

“My aim is to tell stories through my art – stories about my life, people and places,” he said as community leaders representing some 100,000 Hindi-speaking residents and expatriates launched the painting in Arya Samaj. said in the mural.

Ye is confident in painting murals that showcase non-Chinese cultures. “That’s because Singapore is a multicultural country, and I live, go to school, serve in the military, work with many other races. I love multiculturalism. Therefore, I have painted familiar scenes in many murals in Singapore and abroad.” and elements of non-Chinese culture.

“The audience is everyone regardless of race, language, religion and nationality,” he told PTI.

“The temple will further strengthen its heritage status through the Heritage Gallery, which includes archival and contemporary images, documentaries and the largest collection of stunning murals in Singapore’s Little India,” said Associate Professor Rajesh Rai, head of the South Asian Studies Programme. Professor at the National University of Singapore, descendant of an early immigrant family in Uttar Pradesh.

Community leader and veteran lawyer Sat Pal Khattar founded the Heritage Gallery to document the story of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and Arya Samaj, founded in Singapore in 1927. Also featured in the mural are the DAV Hindi schools in Samaj and the communities that shaped the history of these organisations.

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