This page lists all relevant events and new releases, with the newest at the top. If you would like to list something here, or if you would like to review any of these events or new releases for the Sanskrit Literature Forum, please add a comment below or send an email to venetia.ansell@gmail.com.
NB: Page started April 2009; no listings from before that date.
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O, Shakuntala – A music album by Debashish Bhattacharya
Riverboat Records, June 2009
O, Shakuntala is currently touring the USA and Canada – for more details click here
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The Mahabharata Re-Imagined – Trisha Das
Rupa & Co, 2009, Rs 95 – click here to read a review
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Draupadi Remembers – A Nangiar Koothu performance
7-9pm, Sunday 19th July at Adishakti, Pondicherry
For more details contact aadishakti@vsnl.com
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Shakuntalam - A dance drama of Kalidasa’s play presented by Natyalakshana and the Indo-German Cultural Society
7.30pm, 29th May 2009 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore, INDIA
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Black Peacock – An online exhibition of illustrated kavyas, including the Gita Govinda and the Ramayana
For more details click here ; to visit the exhibition, click here
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Asthavadhanam – A kavya contest with Dr Shankar Rajaraman as the Avadhani, hosted by the Samskrta Sangha of IISC, Bangalore
9am, 23rd May 2009 at Satish Dhavan Auditorium, IISC, Bangalore, INDIA
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The Puffin Mahabharata – Namita Gokhale
Penguin India, 2009, 499 rupees – click here for more information
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Mayaravan – An ‘epic ballet’ of the Ramayana using dance and theatre by Shobhana and her theatre troupe, Kalarpana
7pm, 9th May 2009 at the J T Perorming Arts Centre, Kochin, Kerala, INDIA
For tickets, call9349528057 or go to www.jtpac.com.
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Sita Sings the Blues – An animated retelling of the Ramayana by Nina Paley. This event is co-hosted by the Sanskrit Literature Forum – download the sita-sings-the-blues flyer here.
6:45pm Saturday 25th April, 2009 at Suchitra Film Society, 36, 9th Main, Banashankari 2nd Stage, 560 070, Bangalore, INDIA
Admission is free, first come – first served.
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The Ramayana – a Bharatnatyam performance by Shashikala Ravi
6:30pm Saturday 25th April at Symbiosis Vishva Bhavan, Ganesh Khind, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune, INDIA. Phone: +91-20-25652444
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The Modernity of Sanskrit – Simona Sawhney
University of Minnesota Press, 2008, $22.50 – more details here
South Asia edition published by Permanent Black, April 2009, Rs 495 – more details here
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The Hindus: An Alternative History – Wendy Doniger
Penguin Press, March 2009, $35 - more details here
Read a review of the book in the Washington Post here
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An Indian Odyssey – Martin Buckley
Random House 2008 (UK) – more details here
Random House India 2009 (South Asia) - More details here
Read a review in the Daily Telegraph, or a review from the Independent
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Samskrutha Kavya Sangita
Sung excerpts from Valmiki, Kalidasa, Bhasa, Bana, Bhartrihari, Jayadeva, Adi Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madhvacharya with Carnatic music
Directed by musician and Sanskrit scholar Dr T S Sathyavathi, produced by Smt. Geetha Ramanand of AIR and sponsored by Sri Tirunarayana Trust.
All India Radio – FM 100.1, Amruthavarshini Classical Music Channel, Bangalore
7.30 a.m. to 8.00 a.m. every Thursday (IST)
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Image copywright the Mehrangarh Museum Trust
Garden and Cosmos – British Museum
An exhibition of several of the paintings in the royal collection of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur including some depicting epic and puranic material (see above picture or Rama and Lakshmana waiting out the monsoon in Kishkinda).
28th May – 23rd August 2009, Room 35, British Museum, London
£8, Members free
More details here
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