Lecture under the aegis of Centre for Labour Studies by Professor Bino Paul, Centre for Human Resources Management and Labour Relations School of Management & Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, on “Indian Labour Market: a history of hope and despair” will be held on Tuesday 6th September 2022 at 5.30 p.m. in the Durbar Hall of the Society.
Dr. Krishnan Narayanan, India Value Fund Chair Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, will preside.
The Literary Club of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Invites you to a talk on “Identity in Indian Art since Independence”
by Girish Shahane
on Tuesday 13th September at 5 pm in the Durbar Hall
The Literary Club of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai is pleased to invite you to a talk by Girish Shahane titled “Identity in Indian Art since Independence” in the Durbar Hall of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai on Tuesday 13th September at 5 pm.
In the 1950s, 1970s, 1990s and 2010s each witnessed the emergence of different approaches to identity as well as different notions of what art ought to be and the values it ought to embody. Using examples from leading artists of each era, the lecture illustrates the four stages in the development of ideas of identity in Indian Art over the past 75 years.
Girish Shahane is an independent writer and curator based in Mumbai. He has degrees in English Literature from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay and Oxford University which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was Editor and later consulting editor of Art India magazine. Shahane has been Director of the Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art Chennai, Artistic Director of Art Chennai, and Artistic Director of the Indian Art Fair 2015. He has been a columnist for TimeOut magazine, DNA newspaper, Yahoo India, Mint Lounge and Scroll.in
Please join us for tea at 4.30 pm.
- Meenal Kshirsagar, Vice President of the Society & Chairperson - ASM LitClub
- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Officiating Hon. Secretary
The Mumbai Research Centre of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai presents a specially curated bus tour of Udwada and Sanjan, led by Dr. Kurush Dalal.
the Society's Mumbai Research Centre's research methodology course comes to an end, a special valedictory lecture "The Historian's Craft Revisited" will be delivered by Prof. Arvind Ganachari at the Durbar Hall. All are invited.
Greetings from the Asiatic Society on the occasion of Independence Day
We wish you a happy 75th Independence Day!
We are pleased to share with you some pages from the Times of India and the Bombay Chronicle from 15 August 1947, marking 75 years of Independence. Flipbook: https://www.flipsnack.com/iambecomedeath_2/pages-of-freedom.html
PDF for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EcvKk_VJ4JoCFFjrKbT1BuCYDJEzdwUP/view?usp=sharing
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With Regards and Best Wishes for Independence Day, and a bright future for our country.
- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Officiating Hon. Secretary Asiatic Society of Mumbai
The lateritic plateau of the southern Konkan (Sada) is home to potentially thousands of petroglyphs — drawings etched into stone. Representing humans, animals, plants and abstractions, these are silent sentinels of a culture that has long vanished. Yet their continuing sacredness to the residents talk of cultural continuity that has lasted millennia. Since 2018, the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Maharashtra has worked with amateur and professional rockart enthusiasts, archaeologists and local residents to document and conserve these petroglyphs and promote sustainabletourism around them. The efforts have culminated in UNESCO listing them in its tentative list of WorldHeritageSites.
