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INLAKS SHIVDASANI FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER August [email protected] 2011

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Foundation News and Events

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Another year has flown by and despite our intentions to produce this newsletter more often, it turns out to be an annual event.

Like the previous year, in the last week of May, the scholarship 2011 interviews were held in Mumbai. This year, a greater number of candidates were called in to the interviews, both at the preliminary and final interview stages. A total of 10 scholars have been chosen this year.

Alumni continue to do us proud with Dinesh Singh becoming Vice Chancellor of Delhi University and Rajiv Kumar taking over as Secretary General of FICCI.

The Ravi Sankaran Fellowship Programme collaboration is going well with interns doing varied internships, from community based conservation in Rwanda to a veterinary internship in the Wildlife Centre, Virginia. In the Small Grants area the projects vary from studies on the forest owlet to identifying ecological and socio − economic drivers of conflict between aquatic wild life and fisheries in river systems. This year we have one scholar for the Master’s programme, two for the internships’ and three for the Small Grants Programme.

For the Inlaks Research and Travel Grants Programme, three candidates were chosen. The subjects for research were ‘Modernity and the Autonomy of Art : French Painters at the Crossroads 1802-1848’, ‘Problems of Identity and Selfhood in Some Women Poets of the English Renaissance’ and ‘Living with Floods in Sunderbans: Disaster Management’. The Inlaks India Foundation grows from strength to strength with the Fine Arts Awards and the Theatre Awards being the mainstays. We hope to introduce a formal Sports Award later this year.

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ALUMNI EVENTSWe’ve had our hands full with alumni events in the past 12 months.

November 22, 2010 Oxford, UKWe had a visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, where we had the Director, Dr Michael O’Hanlon, give us a wonderful talk and tour of the museum.

November 22, 2010 Oxford, UKThe UK alumni , scholars as well as the Trustees and several well-wishers of the Foundation came together for a splendid dinner at Trinity College, Oxford. The evening was made more memorable by some impromptu singing which resounded in those hallowed precincts.

May 29, 2011 Mumbai, IndiaTo introduce the Inlaks Scholars 2011 and the awardees of the Ravi Sankaran Fellowship Programme (RSFP), a dinner was held on the 29th of May at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club. This was attended by the scholars-elect, as well as the alumni, Trustees and members of the selection panels.

June 20, 2011 London, UKThe Athenaeum Club in London saw a gathering of music lovers, Inlaks scholars, alumni, Trustees and academicians at the Inlaks Summer Gala and reception. Anando Mukherjee (1999) tenor, and Patricia Rozario (take-off-grantee 2009-2011), India’s finest soprano, regaled the audience with an eclectic programme of music which had something to everyone’s taste.

July 8 to 11, 2011 Provence, FranceAs in past years, scholars descended on the Chateau du Galoupet for a weekend of great hospitality by the Shivdasani family. This year’s entertainment included a visit to a medieval town, shopping in local markets, a boat cruise and the customary dinner at a Michelin star restaurant.

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Ananya Kotia from Hansraj College, Delhi will read Economics for Development at Oxford. Apart from being the President of the English Debating Society and Secretary of the Economics Society of Hansraj College, Ananya also plays the piano.

Ankit Bhargava from RV College of Architecture will study Urbanism at TU Delft, Netherlands. He has worked with NGOs such as Triratna on community-based projects. He has also worked with the Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI), Mumbai, and with Charles Correa Associates.

Charu Sudan Kasturi will do an MS in Journalism at Columbia University. Charu has worked with the Hindustan Times as well as the Telegraph and is a passionate football player. He is also the recipient of the Mohan Katyal Memorial Prize at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Mridula Mary Paul from ILS Law College University, Pune, will do an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. Having initially started off with a career in Law, practicing Environmental Law, she now wishes to be a more active participant in the debate between development and environment and people. Her last assignment was working with the Keystone Foundation in Kotagiri. Her research here formed the basis for the formulation of ecologically sustainable development initiatives among adivasis of the Nilgiris.

SCHOLARS 2011INLAKS Scholars

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Malik Sajad Rasool did his BFA from the Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Srinagar. He will now do an MA in Images and Communication at Goldsmiths College, London University. Malik works both as a cartoonist and an animator. His skills include photography, painting, animation, graphic design and web design. He is also the author of two non-fiction graphic novels.

Priya Rose Kochhumpali will do an MSc in Psychological Research at Oxford University. A student of Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, Priya is an accomplished pianist and a member of the ‘Living Voices’ choir and has accompanied the Symphony Orchestra of India in the Indian premier of ‘ADIENUS’. Priya also is an avid debater and elocutor.

Soumyodipto Mukherjee will read Theoretical Chemistry at Oxford University. From St. Stephen’s College, Soumyodipto represented his college both in cricket and table tennis. He was also the chief coordinator of the National Science Festival and the secretary of the Bengali Literary Society, both at St. Stephen’s College.

Shikhar Singh will do a BA in History and Politics at the University of Oxford. Also from St. Stephen’s College, Shikhar has been an active debater and has edited school and college journals. He has also been a writer and student editor of the India debate for the Wall Street Journal, (India).

Tanima Sharma will do an MA in Critical Media and Cultural Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. From St. Stephen’s College, Tanima is a theatre actor and was a student coordinator of the Women’s Development Cell in college.

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INLAKS Ravi Sankaran Fellow 2011

Sumin George Thomas did an MSc in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Pondicherry University. He will now do an MPhil in Conservation Leadership at Cambridge. Sumin has been working at the Keystone Foundation for the past four years coordinating conservation activities across the organization.

Nidhi Rajput will do an internship at the Wildlife Centre of Virginia, USA. Trained in Veterinary Science, Nidhi works in wildlife health and management.

Radhika Timbadia will do an internship with the National

Museums of Kenya on community based conservation projects.

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Elrika D’Souza has been awarded an Inlaks RSF grant to study ‘Spatio temporal changes in dugong occurrences through a stakeholder network in the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago’. With a Master’s in Marine Sciences from Goa University, Elrika currently works with the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore.

Nachiket Kelkar has been awarded an Inlaks RSF grant to study ‘Identifying ecological and socio-economic drivers of conflict between aquatic wildlife and fisheries in river systems’. Nachiket has an MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from Manipal University, Centre for Wildlife Studies and the National Centre for Biological Sciences. He is currently a research affiliate at the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore.

Sutirtha Dutta has been awarded an Inlaks RSF grant to study ‘Prioritizing conservation areas for the critically endangered great Indian bustard (Ardeotis Nigriceps) from distribution, habitat use and extinction probabilities across India’. He is currently a senior research fellow at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. With an MSc in Forestry (Economics & Management) from the Forest Research Institute University, Dehradun, he is currently pursuing his PhD in Wildlife Sciences from the same institution.

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Ms. Arpita Mitra is currently doing her PhD in History (Modern European) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her topic of research is ‘ Modernity and the Autonomy of Art : French Painters at the Crossroads, 1802-1848’.

Arpita was awarded an IRTG in 2010 to visit the Bibliotheque Nationale, Archives Du Louvre, and the Archives Nationales, all in Paris, to add to her research.

At JNU Arpita has been selected for the SYLFF scholarship of the Nippon and Tokyo Foundations for the academic year 2011. She has also been selected to present a paper at the 10th conference of the European Sociological Association in the research network on sociology of the arts in Geneva in 2011.

Ms. Debapriya Basu is currently doing a PhD in English (Early Modern Women’s Writing) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is doing her research in ‘Problems of Identity and Selfhood in Some Women Poets of the English Renaissance’ .

As an IRTG Scholar 2010, Debapriya visited and worked at the British Library, the Cambridge University Library, the Warburg Institute and the Bodleian Library.

Mr. Mohan Bera is doing his PhD in Social Science from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and is conducting research in ‘Living with Floods in Sundarbans, West Bengal’.

As an IRTG 2010 Scholar, Mohan will be visiting the Disaster Research Centre at the University of Delaware, USA.

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ALUMNI SNIPPETSCareer Happenings

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Dinesh Singh (1977) became the Vice-Chancellor of

the University of Delhi in August 2010.

Rajiv Kumar (1977), who till recently was Director

of ICRIER, has now been appointed as the Secretary

General of FICCI.

Sanjay Kathuria (1980) is now Lead Economist

for the World Bank in Bangladesh, based in Dhaka.

Animesh Jha (1981) was on BBC Radio 4 ‘Costing

the Earth’ programme which was related to this topic.

The BBC Radio 4 programme is available on the BBC

i-player.

Parag Tripathi (1982) Parag has been Additional

Solicitor General of India since the past few years.

Ajay Pratap (1982) is extremely busy with his

project funded by the Indian Council of Historical

Research to survey and document prehistoric rock

paintings of the Vindhyas. He has made a project

website which you may wish to visit and comment on

suitably http://rockartofindia.webs.com/

Geetha Venkataraman (1987) joined Ambedkar

University, Delhi (AUD), as Professor of Mathematics

in August last year. AUD is a new university

established by the Government of Delhi. She is

at the School of Liberal Studies and the School of

Undergraduate Studies at the AUD.

Sudeep Sen (1988) featured on Contemporary

Writers (first Indian poet to be featured) :

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/

?p=auth5694A6A40alc11E78AviO1CF2D4D

Indraneil Das (1989) is a Professor in the Institute

of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation

University, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Porus Kaka (1990) has been conferred with the

designation of Senior Advocate / Counsel in the

Bombay High Court. In addition, in the International

Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Awards 2011, Mr.

Porus Kaka was the exclusive winner of the Corporate

Tax category for India.

Indrapramit Roy (1990) was invited to speak

on Tagore’s paintings at the Rabindranath Tagore

Centre, ICCR, Kolkata, in February 2010. The

other panelists included Prof. K.G.Subramanayan,

Prof. R.Sivakumar and Prof. Sukanto Chowdhury.

(Sukanto is an Inlaks scholar as well!) He also

attended a workshop (as a resource person) called

“Creating Content for Children” at the IDC (Industrial

Design Centre), IIT, Powai from 3-10th November,

2010. Apart from that, regular teaching and other

activities continue at full strength. He participated

in four group shows in 2010, in Mumbai, Delhi and

Kolkata.

Dr. Amrita Narlikar (1996) has been promoted in

Cambridge to the position of Reader in International

Political Economy. She is also the Director of the

Centre for Rising Powers in Cambridge.

Ashwath Bhatt (2001) has been selected among

15 people in South Asia for the Arthink South Asia

Fellowship awarded by the Goethe Institute. He

was awarded this fellowship for his Theatre Garage

Project.

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Seyed Faiz Hayat (2004) is currently working

at WWF India as a Senior Coordinator – Policy and

Programme Development.

Kaustav DeBiswas (2004), co-founder of the

Indian design firm ‘Dplay’, is one of the 19 people

from around the world selected in December 2010 for

the prestigious TED Fellowship. Founded in January

2009, the TED Fellows programme handpicks

world-changing innovators from around the globe,

and brings them to the TED stage− literally and

figuratively − to raise international awareness of their

remarkable work.

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee (2005) has moved

back to India and is a ‘Young Investigator’ (junior

faculty) at NCBS, Bangalore. Website: http://www.

ncbs.res.in/aswin

Sukriti Chauhan (2007) worked in public health

and law in PATH, New Delhi. She has moved on to

a smaller consulting NGO called the Global Health

Strategies. For the past two years, she has been

studying policy initiatives in the field of Tuberculosis

and HIV/AIDS. Apart from that she now is a member

on the board of an NGO run exclusively for women

who are HIV positive and children / orphans who are

a result of the epidemic. It is part of a big network

called the Delhi Network for Positive People.

Neha Gupta (2008) is doing a PhD in Mathematics

at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Amit Ranjan (IRTG - 2009) has been given the

status of ‘International Fellow’ for 3 years by UNSW

(University of New South Wales).

Fathima Nizaruddin (2009) A film made during

the course of her study at Goldsmiths has been

selected for screening at several film festivals. The

film’s name is ‘Talking Heads’ [Muslim women]. The

festivals this film has been featured at are: Official

Competitive Selection at Punto de Vista Film Festival,

Spain, 2011, Madurai Film Festival, 2010, VIBGYOR

International Film Festival, Thrissur, 2011, and the

9th International Filmmor Women’s Film festival in

Turkey, 2011.

Arjun Razdan (2009) has been awarded a French

Government Scholarship by the Embassy of France

in India to study at Universite Jean Moulin, Lyon 3.

He will be continuing his anthropological research

on French women and pudeur with a view towards

comparative literature. He will be based in Lyon

from late August 2011 onwards.

Sharanya Chandran (2009) is working as a

Young Professional at the planning commission

Government of India, assisting the Minister of

State for Planning as his Research Officer. She

is also resumed Dance and has performed at the

Sankatmochan Festival in Benaras and with the

Natya Vriksha Dance Company in France for ICCR.

Ameya Muley (2009) has been awarded the Ely

Devons prize at the LSE for top performance in MSc

Econometrics and Mathematical Economics. He will

start his PhD in Economics at MIT this year.

Madhav Khosla (2009) is currently writing a short

book on the Indian Constitution (titled, The Indian

Constitution: A Short Introduction) which will be

published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Over

the last year Madhav has been working at the Centre

for Policy Research in Delhi. From August onwards

he will move to Harvard to do his PhD in Political

Theory.

Anand Shrivastava (2010) has been selected for

the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to do an MPhil

in Economics at Cambridge in 2011-12. He has also

been awarded the Stevenson Prize by the Faculty of

Economics for the best overall performance in the

Diploma Economics course.

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ALUMNI SNIPPETSBooks

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Aman Sethi (1978)

A Free Man

Mohammed Ashraf is short

and stubby, with a narrow but

muscular chest and small, broad

hands balanced on strong,

flexible wrists. But Ashraf does

not grudge the throw of the dice that has made him

a safediwallah with a mazdoor’s body. A small man’s

body can do things that a slenderchamak-challo

cannot even contemplate.

A small man carries the ground close to him wherever

he goes, even as he hangs along the side of a building

three storeys high. The memory of the ground that

allows him to crawl into crevices, perch on narrow

ledges and balance on wobbly parapets. A short man

knows the limits of his body, the extent of his reach,

the exact position of his centre of balance. Unlike

the tall man, he holds no illusions regarding his

abilities or his dimensions; he will never overreach,

overextend or overbalance.

Amitav Ghosh ( 1978)

River of Smoke

In September 1838 a storm

blows up on the Indian Ocean

and the Ibis, a ship carrying

a consignment of convicts

and indentured laborers from

Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind.

When the seas settle, five men have disappeared

- two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers.

Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those

aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier heading

towards Canton? And what fate befell those aboard

the Redruth, a sturdy two-masted brig heading East

out of Cornwall? Was it the storm that altered their

course or were the destinies of these passengers at the

mercy of even more powerful forces?

On the grand scale of an historical epic, River of

Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the

crowded harbours of China. There, despite efforts

of the emperor to stop them, ships from Europe and

India exchange their cargoes of opium for tea, silk,

porcelain and silver. Among them are Bahram Modi,

a wealthy Parsi opium merchant out of Bombay, his

estranged half-Chinese son Ah Fatt, the orphaned

Paulette and a motley collection of others whose

pursuit of romance, riches and a legendary rare

flower have thrown together. All struggle to cope with

their losses – and for some, unimaginable freedoms –

in the alleys and waterways of 19th- century Canton.

As transporting and mesmerizing as an opiate-

induced dream, River of Smoke will soon be heralded

as a masterpiece of twenty-first century literature.

Ejaz Ghani (1982)

Ejaz has edited a volume on The Poor Half Billion.

He has taught Economics at Oxford University and

the University of Delhi. He is currently Economic

Adviser, South Asia Poverty Reduction and

Economic Management , the World Bank.

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The Poor Half Billion in

South Asia

What is Holding Back

Lagging Regions?

edited by Ejaz Ghani

South Asia is a land of sharp and

growing contrasts. It has attracted global attention

as an emerging economic powerhouse, but is also

home to the largest concentration of people living

in conflict, poverty, and malnutrition. Focusing on

the poor half billion of South Asia, this volume puts

into perspective the colossal task ahead to eradicate

poverty and enable inclusive growth in the region.

Examining the challenges, successes, and failures

of South Asia, it provides fresh perspectives on the

links between economic geography, institutions,

and globalization. Through a comparative study

of spatial disparities in income, poverty, conflict,

human development, and gender divides, the essays

provide answers to why certain regions are lagging.

Combining quantitative data with analytical rigour,

they provide innovative short- and long-term policy

solutions to overcome the limits to growth and escape

poverty traps.

Geetha Venkataraman (1987)

Geeta has co-authored a research monograph titled

Enumeration of Finite Groups. This was published

by the Cambridge University Press, UK, in their

‘Cambridge Tracts’ series in 2007 -2008. Geetha

joined Ambedkar University, Delhi, as Professor

in their School of Undergraduate Studies and the

School of Liberal Studies.

Enumeration of Finite

Groups

How many groups of order

are there? This is a natural

question for anyone studying

group theory, and this Tract

provides an exhaustive and

up-to-date account of research into this question

spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose

an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to

and including Sylow’s Theorems, a little knowledge

of how a group may be presented by generators

and relations, a very little representation theory

from the perspective of module theory, and a very

little cohomology theory - but most of the basics

are expounded here and the book is more or less

self-contained. Although it is principally devoted to

a connected exposition of an agreeable theory, the

book does also contain some material that has not

hitherto been published. It is designed to be used as a

graduate text but also as a handbook for established

research workers in group theory.

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BACK TO SCHOOL

This show at Palette Gallery in Delhi was titled ‘Back

to School’. It covers a period from 1979 to 89 of

Baroda and there are five Inlaks scholars in that show

− Rekha Rodwittiya, A.K.Vasudevan, Suresh B.V, Manisha Parekh and Indrapramit Roy.

Akshaya Tankha (2007)

The Marshall Albums: Photography and

Archaeology, on 14th January at the Exhibition

Gallery, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU

An introductory talk on the exhibition was given by

Akshaya Tankha.

Priyanka Govil (Inlaks Fine Arts Awardee, 2010)

Priyanka Govil(2010) has had several shows in

2010-2011 including a solo show in Delhi in October

2010. ‘With love from Baroda’ was a group show in

Mumbai in May 2011

Kumar Jasakiya (Inlaks Fine Arts Awardee, 2009)

“*TENTACLES*”

a group show

By 10 artists from Baroda

Exhibition

From 7th till 13th Feb 2011

Jehangir Art Gallery

161 M G Road

Kalaghoda, Mumbai

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Gigi Scaria (2002)

The historic occasion of India’s first ever National

Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition

– la Biennale di Venezia− was organized by the Lalit

Kala Akademi, India’s National Academy of Art, and

curated by cultural theorist and poet Ranjit Hoskote.

One of the four artists / artist groups chosen to

represent India in this pavilion is Gigi Scaria, painter,

sculptor, video artist.

Manisha Parekh (1991)

A solo show by

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Hemali Bhuta (Inlaks Fine Arts Awardee 2009)

Sheela Gowda (1984)

Sakshi Gupta (2007)

Jaganath Panda (2000)

Ayishaa Abraham, Ravi Agarwal, Sarnath Banerjee,

Hemali Bhuta, Nikhil Chopra, Desire Machine

Collective, Sheela Gowda, Sakshi Gupta, Shilpa

Gupta, Subodh Gupta,N S Harsha, Abhishek

Hazra, Shanay Jhaveri, Jitish Kallat, Amar Kanwar,

Bharti Kher, Bose Krishnamachari, Nalini Malani,

Jagannath Panda, Prajakta Potnis, Raqs Media

Collective, Tejal Shah, Valay Shende, Sudarshan

Shetty, Dayanita Singh, Sumakshi Singh, Studio

Mumbai Architects & Michael Anastassiades, Kiran

Subbaiah, Ashok Sukumaran & Shaina Anand,

Thukral & Tagra, Hema Upadhyay

Dayanita Singh Seema Shetty’s Kitchen View,

Chembur, 2008

C-print, 100 x 100 cm

Courtesy Dayanita Singh / Frith Street Gallery,

London / Nature Morte, New Delhi

INDIAN HIGHWAY IV

Indian Highway is curated by Julia Peyton-Jones,

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B. Kvaran

together with Thierry Raspail and organised

in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery,

London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum

of Modern Art, Oslo.

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Ayisha Abraham, Ravi Agarwal, Sarnath Banerjee, Hemali Bhuta, Nikhil Chopra,Desire Machine Collective, Sheela Gowda, Sakshi Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, N S Harsha, Abhishek Hazra, Shanay Jhaveri, Jitish Kallat, Amar Kanwar, Bharti Kher, Bose Krishnamachari, Nalini Malani, Jagannath Panda, Prajakta Potnis, Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Valay Shende, Sudarshan Shetty, Dayanita Singh, Sumakshi Singh, Studio Mumbai Architects & Michael Anastassiades, Kiran Subbaiah, Ashok Sukumaran & Shaina Anand, Thukral & Tagra, Hema Upadhyay

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PHOTO GALLERYVisit to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

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Dinner at Trinity College, Oxford

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Summer Gala & Reception, London

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Galoupet, 2011

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INLAKS India FoundationINLAKS Fine Arts Awardees 2011

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Karishma D’Souza MVA, Printmaking, M.S. University, Baroda

Mitali Shah MVA, Painting, M.S. University, Baroda.

Megha Katyal MFA, Painting, College of Arts, Delhi University

Kurma Nadham. MVA, Printmaking, M.S. University, Baroda

B.V. Swetha MFA, (PGD), M.S. University, Baroda

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The awardees in the Theatre category in 2011 are Mr. Rajkumar Rajak, Mr. Abdul Huq Usmani, Ms. Niyati P. Rathod and Mr. Kalyan Choudhury.

Rajkumar will research the incorporation of the Alienation theory of Bertolt Brecht into experiments upon character expression.

Abdul Huq will study the Nautanki form.

Niyati is documenting Goor Rajput Banjaras.

Kalyan will explore the traditional Vidushka Clown.

INLAKS Theatre Awardees 2011

Rajkumar Rajak at work with his theatre group

Newsletter 2011 - CREDITSCOVER IMAGES: INLAKS Fine Arts Awardees 2011; Mitali Shah, Karishma D’Souza NEWSLETTER DESIGN: Gauri Bajaj (2008) www.gauribajaj.com

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