chandigarh on saturday the second day of chandigarh carnival festivities the carnival village based on dreamland theme became a perfect destination for merriment and joy for tricity residents all thronged to various activity stalls displaying varied art and skill forms to attract visitors food stalls including citco da vehra continued to attract customers throughout the day taking their pick of best of ethnic food where as amusement park and the film city based on north east states was an another attraction for youngsters the chandigarh carnival is being held at the leisure valley sector 10 and had a continuos stream of visitors at the csa stall fun games contests and quizzes were conducted the response of the public was tremendous anil raina who conducted the quiz had a bagful of questions with him these were based on world literature from english indian european and other cultures attractive prizes in the form of stationery files and diaries were given to the winners the participants included senior citizens housewifes students and very young schoolgoers too tomorrow the csa will continue it literary activites at the carnival identify the writer whose picture was displayed on the noticeboard was a popular contest and will continue tomorrow other contests will be added slogan writing caption etc photos are being posted on csa facebook they speak for themselves chandigarh lalit kala akademi is organizing on the spot photography competition everyone above 10 years is allowed to participate on the subject chandigarh carnival 2012 the entries are open till 12 noon sunday the first prize is for rs 10000 whereas second third are for rs 5000 and rs 3000 respectively whereas it was an open opportunity for amateur budding artists to explore their singing talent at the chandigarh sangeet natak akademi stall with melodies old songs citco da vehra ihm cihm were the places to savour traditional and ethnic food citco da vehra has typical punjabi touch designed with mud clad walls having free hand art work decorated with colourful motifs within the vehra there is a decorated mud house with chulha it also has a wooden machan citco da vehra is giving a look of punjab heritage and culture of this region as many traditional heritage items such as old traditional gadda bullock cart wooden madhani which gives an opportunity for the modern urbanite population to see displayed heritage virasat in the citco da vehra which gives an overall punjabi ambience the central part of the vehra has punjabi style sitting arrangement with traditional charpai manja the mouth watering ethnic dishes like makkikiroti sarson ka saag chaattidi lassi and gur da halwa are popular with the public the folk artists across the country brought tradition and folklore alive with their special performances the small groups of folk dancers of various states spread all over the area and were moving dancing in and around the carnival in their traditional attires the echoes of dholki bansuri dhol and traditional instruments added merriment a mini stage was