NEW DELHI, India – French President François Hollande (in the picture) was among the dignitaries who paid special attention to a depiction of how coffee is grown and brewed in Kodagu on the Karnataka tableau at the 67th Republic Day parade on Tuesday, a official said.
“Our tableau depicting facets of coffee from beans to beverage made an impressive show at the R-Day parade on Rajpath, drawing special attention of VVIPs, including Hollande, President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” state information deputy director H. Srinivas told IANS.
As the 11th state tableau to roll on Rajpath, the theme in sculptures showed a woman in traditional garb plucking red berries in a plantation, another drying them, a third carrying them in a basket, while a man processed the beans in a roaster and converted them into powder for brewing into steaming aromatic cup of coffee in a steel filter.
Apart from VIPs, thousands of people who watched the parade en-route were fascinated by the captivating tableau, depicting the theme “Kodagu: coffee land of Karnataka”, based on a book by folklorist H. L. Nage Gowda, describing how coffee is grown and made from the hills to cup.
