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Portraying the mortal anguish of a man unsure of his identity, Karnavaram (written by Bhasa in 500 BC) is based on an important episode of The Mahabharata. The time and space of its action is the 11th day of the battle of Kurukshetra. It begins with Duryodhana calling Karna to fight for his side as Bhishma has fallen. Karna, the fearless warrior, is found to be in despondent mood on the battlefield. The play explores and analyses its reasons. Conscious of his questionable birth, caste and social status, Karna, the protagonist, is heroic and pathetic at the same time as he tries to find his place between the mockery and adulation of social forces on the one hand and the taunting challenges of fate on the other. His troubled mind moulds his vision and makes him understand the utter futility of a war where men kill one another. His fatalistic realisation that war is a waste irrespective of his own win or loss adds to his mental turbulence. Karna also understands that no matter how bravely he may fight, he is pitted in a losing battle against destiny and the gods. The treatment of the play takes it beyond its epic dimension, relating it to the social realities of the present. Karna lingers in the audience’s consciousness as the symbol of the universal man trying to solve his existential dilemma and discover his own self. The play ends with a revitalised Karna proceeding to his ultimate fate heroically. Design and direction: Chandradasan.
Event: Play in Malayalam, Karnavaram, produced by Lok Dharmi (Kerala) When & Where: Today at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm & tomorrow at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm
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July 21 - 28 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F park Street; 2 pm - 8 pm: Flame presents its first ceramics exhibition featuring works by Chittaranjan Saha, Sanjoy Samanta, Shibram Das, Somnath Raha, Subra Das, Swarup Nandi and Tanmoy Kundu. Inauguration today at 5 pm.
Till July 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Sanjoy Kumar Samanta, Sutapa Dutta and Subrata Karmakar.
Till July 21 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South-B; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of sculptures by Subrata Paul.
Till July 23 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of recent work by Sandip Roy.
Till July 25 at Aakriti Art Gallery, Orbit Enclave, 1st floor, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 3 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by various artists.
Till July 26 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; #2440 8937; 11 am - 8 pm: Kolkata Smiles 08, an exhibition celebrating the cartoon heritage of Calcutta, displaying both rare vintage and contemporary cartoons. Exhibition curated by Chandi Lahiri.
Till July 26 at Gallery Exposure, 54B Mahanirban Road; 3 pm to 8 pm: Art Mela, an exhibition of affordable art featuring the works of about 50 artists from Calcutta and Santiniketan.
Till July 28 at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur E.M. Bypass, #4011 3182/3183: Whispered Legacy, a retrospective of paintings and drawings by Abani Sen. Curated by Ina Puri
Till July 28 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue, #2283 3176; 2 pm - 7 pm: Small format works featuring canvases and sculptures by well-known artists from Delhi, Mumbai, Baroda and Hyderabad.
Till July 30 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kanishka's , 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 11 am - 8 pm: Confronting Masters – an exhibition of paintings by Paritosh Sen, F. N. Souza, Ram Kumar, Amit Ambalal, Ganesh Pyne, Kartick Pyne Ganesh Haloi, Rabin Mandal and Shyamal Datta Ray.
Till July 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 11 am - 7 pm: In the Realms of Fantasy, — works by Sanatan Dinda, Prokash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday, Samir Paul, Subrata Pal, Gourango Beshai, Bratin Khan, Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay and others.
Till July 31 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Installation Photographs Video Art. Participating artists: Jayashree Chakravarty, Aditya Basak, Chhatrapati Dutta, Paula Sengupta, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Debnath Basu, Tapati Chowdhury and Adip Dutta. Curated by Jayashree Chakravarty.
Till August 3 (weekdays only) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chambers, 2nd floor, #3052 3243; 3 pm - 7 pm: Colorscape II, a solo exhibition of paintings by Sukanta Das.
Till August 9 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Gallery Sanskriti and Apparao Galleries present The Wandering Alchemist — paintings and sculptures by Alexis Kersey, George K, and Manish Nai.
Till August 16 at Mon Art Gallerie, 6 Hungerford Street, Regency, 3rd floor: Ideas, Images & Experiences, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures curated by Anirudh Chari. Participants: Arunima Sanyal, Bhasher Chowdhury, mahmud Husain, Ramu Das, Saihat Surai and Soumya Samanta.
DRAMA
July 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Mukhomukhi presents Nashto Asim. Drama: Haro Bhattacharya. Direction: Biplab Bandyopadhyay.
Till July 25 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6 pm: Short-length Bengali drama competition, organised by Shouvanik.
July 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Gandhar presents Kachher Manush, a play by Dr Sirish Atawale; translated by Kamal Sanyal and Bijoylakshmi Barman. Direction: Gautam Haldar.
July 22 at Madhusudan Mancha; 7 pm: Rangakarmee presents Rudali. Design & direction: Usha Ganguli.
July 24 at Academy of Fine rts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Abanindranath Tagore’s Bappaditya. Direction: Goutam Halder.
July 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nehru Children’s Museum presents Saraswati Samipeshu, to be performed by its students. Direction: Ramaprasad Banik.
July 25 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rang Roop presents its latest production, Byaram Biram, directed by Seem Mukhopadhyay.
PERFORMING ARTS
July 21 at Sisir Mancha; 5.15 pm: Shabda Shilpi presents an evening of recitation by Joydeep Chattopadhyay, Bhaskarjyoti Sengupta, Anutosh Mukhopadhyay, Shikha Biswas, Joy Chakraborty, Dalia Basu Saha and others in solo, and Swapan Basu and Nayan Basu in duet.
July 21 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; #2440 8937; 6.30 pm: The eighth evening of Sange Dohar, a series on folk music of Bengal, features Dohar’s performance of rustic folk songs/forms of different areas of Bengal and the North-east. Also, kirtan recital by Parvin Sultana of Cooch Behar.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till August 12 at Photographers’ Gallery, 59A Southend Park, #65406499, 98303 31556; 3 pm - 8 pm: Bouquet of Photographs, featuring images taken by Atanu Paul and members of Third Eye.
TALK
July 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Arunatmananda will speak on Mayer Katha.
July 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Ritananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga.
July 21 at Nandan-II; 6.30 pm: Cine Central, Calcutta presents the 4th Alok Chandra Chandra Memorial Lecture. Speaker: Samik Bandyopadhyay. Topic: Natun Film Society-r Sambhabana.
July 21 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Dr Bhupendra Nath Sil will speak on Bharat Premik Swami Abhedananda.
July 21 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake, #2334 9265; 7 pm: Swami Putanandaji Maharaj will speak on Srimad Bhagavad Gita.
FILM SHOW
July 21 - 26 at Gorky Sadan; 6.30 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club and Bengali Film Lovers Society host Nakshi Kantha, a festival of films from Bangladesh. Today: Kittonkhola, directed by Abu Sayeed.
EXHIBITION
July 21 - 31 at Cottage Emporium, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road: central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Ltd hosts a jewellery exhibition. Inauguration today at 2.30 pm.
Till July 25 at Soumya’s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: Monsoon Magic, an exhibition of saris, jewellery, accessories and home linens.
Till August 3 at Shoppers Stop, Elgin Road, City Centre & South City Mall: Monsoon Makeovers fest.
Till August 14 (except Sundays) at Artisana, 13 Chowringhee Terrace, #2223 9422; 11 am - 7 pm: Display of kantha embroidery sarees, dupattas and pillow covers.
Till August 15 at Starmark (3 Lord Sinha Road, G-202 City Centre, and South City); 10.30 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of Penguin Classics Collection covering Greek and Roman works, and Victorian literature and modern classics.
BOOK LAUNCH
July 21 atCrossword Bookstore, Elgin Road; 6 pm: Launch of Vanaja Banagiri’s Hyderabad Hazir Hai: Writings from the City of Nizams, to be followed by an interactive session with the author.
DISCUSSION/FILM SHOW
July 21 at Starmark, South City Mall; 3 pm: Interaction with santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, filmmaker Jabbar Patel, Ina Puri and Richa Agarwal, to be followed by the screening of Antardhwani, a 70-minute documentary on Pandit Shivkumar Sharma.
WORKSHOP
July 22 - 26 at Padatik, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 11 am - 4 pm: Padatik organises Patton Theatre Workshop for the preparation of Patton School One Act Play Competition involving 12 selected schools. To be conducted by eminent theatre personalities Dolly Basu, Sohini Sengupta and Santanu Bose.
July 27 at Disha Foundation; 9.45 am - 12 noon: www.writeherewritenow.co.in, an online writing community for school children, is conducting a workshop on translation to be conducted by Megha Malhotra, Richa Wahi and Reeti Roy. Details at #98316 87989.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244
All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less
than a week ahead to:
Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001;
Fax: 2234-8244
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