Under the shade of the banyan tree: Rabindranath Tagore’s school
Bengalis say that Santiniketan is not a place, but a way of life. As its name suggests, it is the “abode of peace”, and its very atmosphere transports you to another world. Although it is located two hours from the big city of Kolkata, Santiniketan has managed to retain its idyllic old-world charm. In 1863, […]
Satyajit Ray ‘Meditations on India’
Ray was an artist of prodigious versatility; for this reason, the exhibition brings together for the first time material from all the artistic disciplines in which he expressed himself. Not only photographs of the director himself, but also his drawings, the costume designs he created and with which he changed Indian clothing trends, the music […]
Ravi Shankar
An exhibition dedicated to the world’s most famous sitar player and father of fusion music (World Music) between East and West, Ravi Shankar. Ravi Shankar (Benares, British Raj, 7 April 1920 – San Diego, United States, 11 December 2012) was an Indian musician and composer known worldwide as a sitar virtuoso. This exhibition revolves around […]