This is a collection of photographs taken by Dutch Art Institute student and network collaborator Eona McCallum during the second workshop, Kolkata and Santiniketan, West Bengal – 30 January to 8 February 2014.
In the grounds of Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Tagore’s House in Kolkata
At Santiniketan West Bengal
The Kala Bhavan campus, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
Visva Bharati, Santiniketan
Santhal Informal School
This is a collection of photographs taken by Tagore, Pedagogy and Contemporary Visual Cultures research member Wendelien van Oldenborgh during the second workshop, Kolkata and Santiniketan, West Bengal – 30 January to 8 February 2014.
Kolkata
Kolkata
Rustom Bharucha
Train to Bolpur
On the train from Kolkata to Bolpur
Rustom Bharucha
Santhal Family, sculpture by Ramkinkar Baij, 1938, Santiniketan
RUSTOM BHARUCHA is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice, Rajasthan: An Oral History, Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, and the recently published Terror and Performance. He was the Project Director of Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan devoted to traditional knowledge systems, and the Artistic Director of two inter-Asian performance festivals of the Ramayana at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Research, Pondicherry.