Odissi dance being performed at the Singge Khababs or Sindhu Darshan festival in Leh, Ladakh, India.

Odissi dance, a classical dance form from the East Indian state of Orissa

The Singhey Khababs festival, earlier known as the Sindhu Darshan Festival, is a festival held annually / every year in the town of leh, in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir in North India. The festival celebrates the Sindhu River or the Indus River and water from rivers all over India is brought in earthen pots and immersed in the Indus at the festival. The Indus River originates from Mansarovar Lake in Tibet and is known as such after is is formed with the confluence of the Sengge Chu / Singhe River and the Gar River. It then passes through Ladakh before going on to Pakistan and joining the Kabul River before ending up at a Delta east of Karachi in Pakistan. The River is also known as Sengge Chu, Darya-e-Sindh, Sinthos, Abaseen and Mehran and is the is the longest and most important river in Pakistan.

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