Curators

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2016

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Manjari Nirula has been instrumental in reviving languishing crafts, the marketing of craft products and the participation of craft-persons in regional and international fairs. The vice-president of World Crafts Council Asia-Pacific Region and the Crafts Council of India, and member of the Indian government’s committee for the selection of master craft persons, Manjari has been coordinating the UNESCO Award of Excellence Programme for South Asia since 2004. She is a member of the Commitment to Kashmir (CtoK) panel that examines business plans of young Kashmiri craftsmen and women to allocate interest-free loans to them in order to begin a small-scale business. The panel also conducts workshops, field visits, and individual mentoring for selected applicants.

Dinesh Khanna

2016

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Dinesh Khanna has been working as a professional photographer for more than 35 years with an eclectic blend of commercial and personal work. His personal work has been published as acclaimed books like Bazaar and Living Faith. The latest books he has worked on are: Right of the Line–The President’s Bodyguard and Life in Rashtrapati Bhawan which have been commissioned by the Rashtrapati Bhawan and Sahapedia. 

Over the years his work has also been shown in solo, and group shows in galleries from Delhi to New York and Varanasi to San Francisco. He has also done several assignments for the Incredible India campaign, including the prestigious one for the Taj Mahal’s 350th anniversary. Dinesh is also a Managing Trustee of Nazar Foundation, and one of the Co-founders of the Delhi Photo Festival and also a Photography Curator for the first two editions of Serendipity Arts Festival. He has taught Photography in various institutions like Ashoka University, The One School, Goa, Jamia Milia and MICA, Ahmedabad amongst others. He is a Director of the Dhrish Academy of Photography at the Museo Camera, conducts Photography courses and workshops and was a Visual Consultant with Sahapedia.

Anuradha Kapur, theatre director and curator
Anuradha Kapur, theatre director and curator

2016

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Anuradha Kapur is a theatre-maker and teacher. She is the founder-member of Vivadi, a cross-disciplinary group of theatre-makers, visual artists, film-makers, musicians and writers who attempt to connect practice with research in their work. 

Anuradha Kapur taught at the National School of Drama, New Delhi for more than three decades; and was Director of the School from 2007 to 2013. She has also held visiting professorships at Ambedkar University, Delhi, the University of Warwick and the University of Cape Town. She curated the performance window of the exhibit body.city: siting contemporary culture in India at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, in 2003; co-curated the theatre section of the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa in 2015 and 2016; and was part of the curatorial team of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK), Thrissur in 2017 and 2023. Her book, Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods: The Ramlila at Ramnagar, was published by Seagull Books, Calcutta (1993, 2004). For her work in the theatre, Anuradha Kapur was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 2004.  

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2016

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Jyotindra Jain is a Member of the International Advisory of the Humboldt Forum, a multi-arts complex in Berlin; a Tagore National Fellow; and Editor of Marg Publications, Mumbai. Prior to this, he has served as the Director of the National Crafts Museum (New Delhi); Professor of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi); and Member Secretary of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and a Rudolf-Arnheim Professor at Humboldt University (Berlin). An eminent scholar of Indian art and popular visual culture, Jain has extensively published in the areas of his specialisations, and curated exhibitions shown in some of the most prestigious cultural institutions and museums in India and abroad. He has received the Prince Claus Award for Culture in 1998, and the Cross of Merit—the highest civilian award of Germany—in 2018