Monday 8 May 2023

Immersive cultural extravaganza blending art with scholarship in Ramayana Kalpavrksam - Taalam: column by Leela Venkataraman

Ramayana Kalpavrksam, an immersive cultural experience spread over three days, held at Hyderabad's CCRT Campus, Madhapur, under the aegis of Shankarananda Kalakshetra and Natyarambha, was one of its kind. Curated by artist/scholar/administrator Ananda Shankar Jayant, who, for the best part of her life has presided with equal panache over the two very dissimilar worlds of bureaucracy and art, along with scholar Anupama Kylash as co-planner designing the morning talks, here was a cultural extravaganza, with the rare opportunity for listening to and interacting with brilliant minds, alongside being treated to rare and specific works of art - all inspired by the Ramayana. Like the proverbial Banyan tree with a spread, covering areas far beyond its place of birth, the Ramayana offshoots have spread far beyond our country - to South East Asia and other places, spouting varying expressions of culture.

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