Empathy, Intelligence and Love: Sita and Rama in a Miniature Painting from the Chamba Ramayana Folio (1760–1800)
Speaker: Prof. Alok Bhalla, critic, academic and poet
 
The speaker will 'read' one painting from the Chamba folio of Valmiki’s Ramayana in the Bhuri Singh Museum. The painting depicts a sublime incident that has rarely been imagined or interpreted. It offers a complex interpretation of the conversation in Panchavati Forest between Rama, Sita and Jatayu about the relation between kingship, nature and the sacred.
 
Thirteenth in a series of lectures organised by IIC-International Research Division with the support of the Ministry of External Affairs