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An interactive and activity-based session for children of the age group 8 to 13 years. The session will be led by Swarnali Ganguly & Amrit Ghuman on the book Lynn..

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The Shepherdess of the Glaciers 74 mins | Tibetan Directed by Stanzin Dorjai Gya This film takes you to the far northern mountains of India, in Ladakh, documenting the life..

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The book, edited by eminent scholar Somnath Mukhopadhyay explains the various aspects of the language of art and aesthetics along with the life and paintings of Silpaguru Abanindranath Tagore.

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Curated by Tenzing Sedonla Ukyab Lama and Abeer Gupta. Peripheral Visions brings together the diverse visions of artists from the Trans-Himalayan region to delve into the interplay of identity and..

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A Tale of Love and Desire 102 mins | French Directed by Leyla Bouzid "A Tale of Love and Desire" is a Tunisian drama film directed by Leyla Bouzid. A..

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In Art and Visual Perception, author Rudolf Arnheim attempts to use science to better understand art, still keeping in mind the important aspects of personal bias, intuition, and expression. It..

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Jake Parker Scott is a Canadian improviser/composer/multi-instrumentalist. Before moving to California to pursue an MFA in improvised music, Jake spent two winters studying raga music in Kolkata with pandit Shantanu..

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15 Mins | Bengali Followed by an interaction with the director Debraj Naiya 'The world is a battlefield. In many levels. And the worst sufferers are the helpless little kids...

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In collaboration with ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Arhshila Santiniketan presents ‘Songs of Spring’, a flute performance where flautist Paramananda Roy accompanied by Ashis Paul will give us an evening featuring..

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The Magic of Making 103 mins | English Directed by Goutam Ghose Presented in collaboration with Nabanna Earth Weekend Festival. Award-winning filmmaker Goutam Ghose's documentary film takes you on a creative..

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Swati Ganguly in Discussion with Sukalyan Chanda A first collaborative event between Arthshila Santiniketan and the Nabanna Earth Weekend Festival presents a live book discussion where author Swati Ganguly in..

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A presentation and talk on electronic music followed by a performance by French Artist Guyseika. Guyseika proposes a presentation of the instruments which will be followed by a conversation on..

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La Panthère des neiges / The Velvet Queen 92 mins | French Directed by Vincent Munier and Marie Amiguet. Presented in collaboration with Alliance Francaise du Bengale, this film takes its..

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Van Gogh & Japan 85 mins | English, Japanese Directed by David Bickerstaff A documentary film about Van Gogh's encounter with Japanese artworks in Paris through research, print collecting, discussions with..

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Bodhi-Cha: Imagining Indian Tea Ceremony”, a short film screening followed by Bodhi-Cha Tea Ceremony by Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay By Combining the tea traditions of China, Japan, Korea, and India, Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay introduced..

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Anand will be treating the audience with an early morning solo performance comprising Dhrupad vocals accompanied by Tanpura. Anand is a student of Dhrupad with Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar. He..

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Anand is a student of Dhrupad with Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar. He is a poet and the publisher of Navayana. He lives in Delhi. Sawai Khan has trotted the globe..

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To Let The World In- Vol. 2 92 mins | English, Hindi Directed by: Avijit Mukul Kishore The second volume of the film looks at a period of monumental change in..

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Performance by Emre Gültekin, Malabika Brahma and Sanjay Khyapa. Emre Gültekin, singer and player of the Saz, unites the sounds of his instrument with the voice and percussion of Malabika..

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Presentation by Dr. Verna Blewett and Dr. Lily Hirsch. Dr. Verna Blewett and Dr. Lily Hirsch are relatives of Santiniketan-based artists Kiron and Gertrude Sinha. For many years they have..

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92 mins | English, Hindi  Directed by: Avijit Mukul Kishore To Let The World In, Volume 1 is the first part of a two-volume film project that looks at a significant..

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93 mins | Bengali with English subtitles  The film revolves around Bokul, a fourth-generation manual laborer who works in a bone-crushing factory in the middle of Kolkata's largest dump yard...

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The performance by  Kalamandalam Jishnuprathap & Team, enacts the story of Lifting of Mount Kailasa (Kailasoddharanam), an extract from the ancient 1st-century playwright-Bhasa’s Abhisheka Natakam of Act 3, through Koodiyattam,..

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Poetry & Calligraphy of Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay Curated by Subhojit Chowdhury Translated by Arunava Sinha Curated by Subhojit Chowdhury, this exhibition takes us through Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay’s poetry and calligraphy that celebrates the mystery..

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J'ai Aimé Vivre Là French | English Subtitles | 89 Minutes The Documentary film features in a new town, somewhere in the suburbs of Paris, intimate stories meet the writings of..

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Meera will present audio recordings and publications from her current project that explore post/colonial migration histories into the UK. The archive shares the impacts of colonialism in Britain on a..

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Lovely Villa 31 mins | Hindi with English subtitles Architecture as Autobiography, a 30-minute film directed by Mumbai-based architect and urban designer Rohan Shivkumar and filmmaker-cinematographer Avijit Mukul Kishore, is..

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The abstract physical vocabulary of dance developed at Chowk is drawn from the traditional and the historical, and is similar to the way cities form and mold themselves around monuments..

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State of Housing 42 Minutes | Multilingual A film directed by Sanjiv Shah, was commissioned as part of the State of Housing – Aspirations, Imaginaries and Realities in India exhibition..

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Daga Ho Gae Baalam is a play by Parivartan Rang Mandali which showcases the rich tradition of folk music and looks at the impact on it during the current times. Parivartan Rang..

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Sita's Ramayana | A Summer Story | Brer Rabbit Retold 24 Minutes | Multilingual The three short films in a series are based on stories published by Tara Books and..

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Fabulative Futures  Duration: 180 Minutes The videos presented here are part of the collective artistic research project Fabulation for Future, which was based on the call for deputies to form the..

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The book "Dancing with my Camera"  Edited by Stephanie Rosenthal, this publication is produced on the occasion of Singh’s touring retrospective. The book brings together for the first time the..

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Die Neue Nationalgalerie Duration: 48 Minutes | German with English Subtitles The New National Gallery - in Berlin is an epoch-defining Structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. Fifty..

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Sounds are embedded in almost every aspect of daily life, from communication and artistic expression to commerce, politics, and our social and cultural identities.   Aurality or hearing is one..

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In between the comfort of our homes & large Infrastructural projects, lies this liminal & vulnerable space of our city that we inhabit every day. These Spaces are never drawn,..

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About the Master Craftspersons: Master Calligrapher Syed Azeem Haider Jafri. In Lucknow the art form of calligraphy flourished during the period of nawabs. Different verses from  the Quran were written..

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Shahanshah Mirza will share some fascinating facts about the connection between Awadh & Bengal.

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Duration: 40 Minutes | Hindi The screening comprises of short films by Sanatkada Film Studio. Each segment of the screening sheds light upon a wide range of craft traditions of..

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Mohammad Muneem is an adept film-maker and scriptwriter. Since 2014, he has been teaching song-writing & urdu poetry at the Liberal Arts department of Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce,..

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Cameron, Coffee & Calcutta  Duration: 85 Minutes | English  Jane Richter, former UK school/college teacher, is originally from London, but her last 35 years have been spent on  the beautiful Isle..

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Akashpradeep  Duration: 28 Minutes | Bengali The film depicts the condition of a deceased old person Janardan, who eventually returns to his family. But gradually it becomes difficult for Janardan to..

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A workshop by Pavel Paul for ages 9-12, exploring the art of stop-motion animation to narrate stories creatively. The workshop will introduce a unique and exciting medium which articulates imagination,..

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Alice et Le Maire  Duration:103 Minutes | French The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, after thirty years in politics feels he has run out of ideas. To solve this problem, his..

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Galiyon Ka Sheher Duration: 40 minutes | Hindi The documentary offers an insight on the implications of a recent urban development project in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh through the perspectives of..

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The memoir was published in 1975 by the American artist and leading figure of the pop art movement Andy Warhol. The book is an assemblage of vignettes about love, beauty,..

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Court Duration: 115 minutes | Hindi The film examines the complexities within the Indian judicial system through the Mumbai Sessions Court trial of Narayan Kamble, a folk singer accused of..

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The screening comprises of short films by Sanatkada Film Studio. Each segment of the screening sheds light upon a wide range of craft traditions of Awadh. Central attraction of the..

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The book introduces young readers to Indian modern art in a fun and engaging manner. This enriching activity-led book traces the development of modern art history from Pre-independence and unfolds..

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Chikankari appeared in Lucknow in the late 18th century and is one of the finest traditional embroideries of India, a symbol of Lucknawi culture and elegant courts of the nawabs..

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The book by Sally O’Reilly  presents art made over the last two decades in which the human form is central. From painting and sculpture to installation, video art, and performance,..

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The book traces the rise of Persianate culture in India during the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become thoroughly indigenized by the time of..

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Curated by The Lucknow Bioscope The exhibition, will take us through the lives of artisans from Awadh and the processes behind their creation of crafts that adorn our heritage and..

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The presentation will highlight some of the early interventions and efforts made by Sanatkada in documenting and disseminating oral histories of Lucknow. Documenting oral histories has been an ongoing project..

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A cultural journey of Awadh & Lucknow woven through couplets, songs & commentary based on different ragas written in various Hindustani languages compiled together and composed by Askari Naqvi.

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The presentation will focus on the history of evolution in photography and the contemporary practice of alternative photography in 21st century. The talk will further elaborate on the basis and..

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Duration: 45 Minutes Detritus is a multiform contemporary performance that proposes a lightness of being and living in a world that is overburdened by what we consume and discard. Through..

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Duration: 106 minutes | French Based on French journalist Florence Aubena’s best-selling non fictional work, Ouistreham traces the journey of Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, without revealing her true identity..

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A Silent Warble Duration: 18 Minutes | Silent Directed by Debanjan Majhi, A silent short narrative of a blind foley artist and how he roams around the world heritage city..

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The book “Digital Art” by Christiane Paul emphasises on traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture that have been transformed by digital techniques and media due..

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Portrait of a City (1961) Duration: 20 Minutes | Language: English, Bengali Portrait of a city is a visual recording of the city of Calcutta in the 1960s. Birju Maharaj..

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The conversation will focus on how the built form of our everyday mundane city shapes, the experience of our everyday life and what can Architecture do to address our fractured..

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Film: Cyrano my love, Edmond (2021) Duration : 124 mins Language: French The story of Edmond Rostand who is a playwright of potential genius. Unfortunately, all he has written until..

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The Book by Eva Respini examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. The book is a richly illustrated and..

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Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke is a brief virtual recollection of the fall in the 1970s, when Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition...

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Arthshila Santiniketan on the 7th of August, at 6pm at Arthshila Santiniketan will be hosting a presentation by Dr. Vishal C. Bhand where he will share an overview of handloom..

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Museum of Innocence is an exhibition of gum prints reflecting on artist Swapan Nayak's relationship with the land, forest, and duality between urbanisation and rural existence. MoonBrush is a series..

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Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke is a brief virtual recollection of the fall in the 1970s, when Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition...

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To commemorate Ramkinkar Baij's 42nd death anniversary, Arthshila Santiniketan, in collaboration with Musui Art Foundation, will be a hosting a special screening of the films Ramkinkar Baij (by Debabrata Roy)..

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The 2020 Takshila Fine Arts Scholars Show opens at Arthshila Santiniketan on the 15th of July, 2022 at 6 pm. The exhibition features works by Ammu S, Amaldev S Narayanan,..

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Eeb Allay Ooo! (2019) Duration: 98 mins | Language: Hindi Hired as a monkey repellent, Anjani, a young migrant worker struggles to adjust to life in Delhi, after becoming the..

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Arthshila Santiniketan, in association with Juggernaut will be hosting a book reading session by the author Nandana Sen of Acrobat: Translations of Nabaneeta Dev Sen's poems on the 12th of..

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INTO EXILE: A presentation by Paula Sengupta This presentation by Paula Sengupta addresses the museumization of the Tibetan community in exile.

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The Kala Chaupal Trust This presentation by Leenika Jacob will talk about The Kala Chaupal Trust, which was founded in May 2018 by Leenika Jacob and Premila Singh to work..

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My Name is Gulpilil (2021) Duration: 101 mins | Language: English My Name is Gulpilil is a 2021 documentary film about the life of celebrated actor David Gulpilil, at the..

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MUSTANG This presentation by Sujoy Das through photographs and video clips covers one of the last Shangri-las in the Himalaya. A lost kingdom bordering Tibet which has a regulated entry..

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Exhibition Walkthrough This exhibition walkthrough is to be led by the curator Paula Sengupta with many of the participating artists from the exhibition, talking about their respective works.

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Ashwatthama (2017) Duration: 120 mins | Language: Braj About: Ashwatthama is an anti-narrative film about a little boy obsessed with a narrative. After bandits raid their home killing his mother,..

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Workshop to be led by: Nilanjan Das Description: Each residence in Santiniketan has a garden of some sort. Participants will be invited to create a miniature relief stamp [3 x..

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Paula Modersohn-Becker - Porträt (1976) Duration: 44 mins | Language: German (English Subtitles) About: This film by Jürgen Breest portrays the life of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907),..

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Arthshila Santiniketan, in collaboration with Kala Chaupal Trust presents Living A Dark Night, curated by Paula Sengupta. The works in this exhibition encapsulate a time of despair and anxiety, when..

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Exit Through the gift Shop: A Banksy Film (2010) Duration: 87 mins | Language: English About: Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film is a British documentary film, directed..

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Stilleben (1997) Duration: 58 mins | Language: German (English Subtitles) About: This film by Harun Farocki features classic 16th and 17th century still life paintings which are edited together with..

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Kanaka Purandara (1988) This film by Girish Karnad is about the saints Kanaka and Purandara who led the Bhakti movement, which insisted that theological language be spoken in popular dialect..

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Arthshila Santiniketan's Film Showcase this week features 3 films, ‘Chitrakathi', 'The Nomad Puppeteer' by Mani Kaul & 'Six Strands' by Chaitanya Tamhane. Chitrakathi: This film traces the evolution of Chitrakathi,..

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In this three-day interactive workshop conducted by Ruma Choudhury, participants will explore the process of paper-making.

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Rabindranath Tagore is an Indian documentary film, released during the birth centenary year of Rabindranath Tagore (who was born on 7th May, 1861) written and directed by Satyajit Ray about..

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Arthshila Santiniketan will show "A Luminous Jewel (Birju Maharaj)" as part of our weekly film showcase as a tribute to the legend of performing arts. Late Birju Maharaj, the legendary..

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On International Dance Day, Arthshila Santiniketan will show "A Luminous Jewel (Birju Maharaj)" as part of our weekly film showcase as a tribute to the legend of performing arts. Late..

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The talk will discuss how Somnath Hore approached the Leftist aesthetic as a materialist engagement with bodies in movement and the people as the core of ‘body politic’. We can..

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Arthshila Santiniketan and History for Peace—an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts will be facilitating an interactive workshop where we will engage with his sketches and Somnath Hore’s..

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Sumangala Damodaran’s talk will address the ways in which music and musicians have played an important role in articulating social concerns and have been part of social movements from the..

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Nainsukh is a 2010 film directed by Amit Dutta based on the life and works of Nainsukh, an 18th-century Indian miniature painter. The film contains meticulous recreations of Nainsukh's paintings..

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Arthshila Santiniketan commences with its film screenings, starting with Gamak Ghar- a feature film about a family's life in a small village in Darbhanga, Bihar, over the course of two..

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The exhibition pans through a retrospective collection of Somnath Hore’s work, curated by K. S. Radhakrishnan, as a tribute to celebrate his centenary year.

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Somnath Hore by K.S. Radhakrishnan

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On Sunday morning we will begin with a workshop led by Soumik Nandy Majumdar for young people between ages 13 and 18 years, to delve deeply into the works by..

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The second evening of our centre’s opening program will consist of a sarod recital by Sougata Roy Chowdhury. Sougata will be accompanied on the tabla by Deepranjan Ghosh. Sougata Roy..

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What makes an artist? What makes their art? The medium they choose, the subject, the material, their life experiences, their mentors and fellow travellers, their political conviction… How do these..