Tag: Indian

Auroville Art Camp teaser 4

  We are organising an Auroville Art Camp and Festival in March 2019 with Artist residency taking place in Auroville, for painters. 15 Indian national artists and 15 Aurovilians artists will be selected to collaborate and work on the theme “A new world is possible”, inspired by a quotation from the Mother in the Agenda. […]

Carnatic music concert in Pondicherry 22nd April

AV Music and Dance group is going to this concert, featuring an in-demand young Chennai singer just back from his maiden tour of the USA. Day/Date : Sunday,22nd April,2018 Time : 6.05 to 9.00 PM Venue : Societe Progressite School 12,Chetty Street, Pondicherry Programme : Vocal Sri.Bharath Sundar Violin Sri.L.Ramkrishnan Mirudangam Sri.Vijay Natesan Ghatam Sri. […]

Available in Freeland Bookshop: “The Great War of Kurukshestra”

The Mahabharata of Maggi Lidchi Grassi is a “great novel” as it is no longer written. Maggi Lidchi-Grassi’s magnificent book “The Great War of Kurukshestra” is available at Freeland Bookshop. A writer whose novels have been celebrated by Henry Miller, Nadine Gordimer or Doris Lessing, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi not only revisits this founding epic of Indian […]

Two presentations by Aparajita Barai at Unity Pavilion

Demystifying the Indian Deities 12th January – 5 pm to 7 pm at Unity Pavilion by Aparajita Barai (www.belovedindia.com) Contact: 8860811953 Why is Saraswati in white attire? Why does Durga have 10 hands? Why is owl the vehicle of Lakshmi? What do the gods and goddesses mean and why are they so many in number? Can […]

First Auroville Food Festival

As Auroville celebrates its 50th birthday, Anveshan along with Auroville community at large is organizing the first Auroville Food Festival. The festival, which will be held from December 16-23, will showcase Auroville’s rich blend of disparate cultures through its gastronomic diversity. Each day of the festival will focus on a particular tradition of cuisine, i.e. North […]

KAVI & KAVYA

Unity Pavilion is launching a series of Poetry Reading sessions where we collectively enjoy the beauty and subtlety of mystic poetry by some of the very famous Indian Poets of the 12th to 19th century: Rumi, Tukaram, Kabir, Mirabai, Nazrul, Tagore, Subramania Bharati and Sri Aurobindo and many more. Among our readers are accomplished actors, […]

Sita et la forêt chantée

A poetic and pedagogical tale of initiation to learn to recognize five well known birds from Auroville. To print 500 copies, we need your help. Have a look on our page for crowd funding in Ulule : https://fr.ulule.com/aurosita/ From 5 euros only, everyone can give anything, so make a fuss about it, talk about it […]

Remembering Veenapani Festival – Weekend Three

Dear Friends, We are very encouraged by all the fabulous responses we have been receiving from audiences, performers and well-wishers. It has been truly magical to see our theatre evolve into a fresh space with a new energy and new articulation every evening. Thank you all for making this happen for us. ‘Remembering Veenapani’ will […]

9th Auroville Panorama of Indian Cinema

Friday 10 February: 5.30 pm DRUMS / TEAM AGORA Directed by Jinu THOMAS Music 4’ Encounter in the deep forest… 5.35 pm ISHTI / IN SEARCH FOR SELF Directed by Dr. G. PRABHA Sanskrit / EST 1h.48’ Ishti centres around a 71-year-old Ramavikraman Namboodiri, a Vedic scholar, his family members and Sreedevi, his young, third […]

Thursday Indian Film: Kadambari

Director : Suman Ghosh Duration: 1 hr 27 min This is a biopic of Kadambari Devi, the sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore, and daughter-in-law of Debendranath Tagore. Rabindranath’s elder brother Jyotirindranath Tagore married Kadambari. In 1868 when Kadambari came to Jorasanko Thakur Bari Rabidranath was 7 years old and Kadambari was 2 years elder than Rabindranath. […]

An Ode to the Women and the Environment

Tritha One of India’s most promising musicians and one amongst the youngest and gifted singers,songwriters and composers;  Tritha is a rising figure in India and Europe, not only as a singer and performer but also as a strong and modern Indian woman fighting for Women’s freedom and independence.  

Indianostrum Theatre fund-raising evening

Dear Friends, Greetings from Indianostrum Theatre! As you are aware we are running the theatre space of Indianostrum since January 2012. This was not possible without your generous support – as much as 50% of our budgetary expenses are covered by donations from patrons like you. We would need your continued support to run this […]

In Collaboration – Laxma Goud & Adil Writer

IN COLLABORATION is a duo show featuring the world of celebrated indian artist Padma Shri Laxma Goud and Adil Writer of Mandala Pottery, Auroville. The works featured at the show at the stunning new space of Pundole Art Gallery in Mumbai is the result of a residency by Goud in December 2015. 28th April to […]

Hindustani Classical Music Classes

For any more details, get in touch: Mail: kalarigram@gmail.com Call: 0413-2622091 | SMS: 94-95-030733 Drop in: Udayan, Edayanchavadi, (Near Adi-Shakti), Auroville P.O. About Kalarigram: Kalarigram, next to Adishakti, is a centre for the south Indian martial art form, Kalari. It is also a space for research and exploration into artistic practices, healing and spirituality from […]

Shards of American South Cut Bengaluru

from The New Indian Express: By Anshuman U Shastry BENGALURU: Tennesse Williams’ part-autobiographical play, The Glass Menagerie, set in the late 1930s financially-troubled America is very relevant to today, says theatre artist Jill Navarre. Directed by Navarre, it was staged in Rangashankara recently by the Puducherry-based Auroville Theatre Group. “I chose this play for Bengaluru […]