Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India

03/23/2022

Join a powerful, historic, and urgent Conversation with distinguished and internationally renowned author Amitav Ghosh, in his latest publication, The Nutmeg’s Curse.
Do Not Miss this Conversation on a deeply researched theme, that takes off from the Nutmeg Islands in Indonesia.
Buy tickets for the event from the link below.

In Conversation with internationally distinguished author, Amitav Ghosh will be Dr. K*m K*m Bhavnani

11/05/2021

Happy Diwali! ✨ is known as the Festival of Lights and comes from the Sanskrit word, Dipawali, which literally means “row of lights.” Every year, Diwali is celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs around the world to mark the beginning of the new year and usually falls on the darkest night of the year.

Celebrate at home with fun activities or join us for virtual Diwali Storytelling on Sunday, Nov. 7.

Diwali Storytelling: calendar.asianart.org/event/diwali-storytelling/

Diwali Cultural Celebration Packet: asianart.org/cultural-celebrations/celebrate-diwali/

📷: The Hindu deity Lakshmi with elephants, 1900-1950. Southern India. Wood. Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection, B61S52+. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.

09/02/2021

SACHI friends were delighted to join in a viewing of this superb play. We were particularly fortunate to be accompanied by leading black hole scientists who added to the talkback with their personal connections to S. Chandrasekhar. A fine afternoon of lunch and theatre.

‘Square Root Of A Sonnet’ – Staging the Visual Imagery of ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’ in Sunnyvale

06/04/2021

More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer -- who himself has three or four “origins” -- meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing still.

05/07/2021

Indian filmmaker and writer Amit Dutta has created his own distinctive cinema through deep explorations of India’s artistic, literary, and cultural traditions, both contemporary and historical. This season showcases his recent shorts and features, including the premiere of If I go, where do I go?, featuring five visits with Hindi experimental writer Krishna Baldev Vaid. We return as well to his landmark Nainsukh, on the eighteenth-century painter

Who's ready to go on a journey? 🌏 Our newest film series, Recent Films of Amit Dutta, “travers[es] genres, moving effortlessly from crafted scenario to spontaneous encounter, from mindful self-reflexivity to ghostly magic.” ✨

You won't want to miss this showcase of Amit Dutta's most evocative films, releasing on April 30. 🔹 Pre-Order today: http://bit.ly/RecentFilmsOfAmitDutta

05/06/2021