Join us at Gallery Gitanjali for a series of Friday engagements starting with a talk this Friday, 1st April at 7 pm by celebrated writer Dr. Sudhir Kakar entitled "Artistic Creativity - Western and Indian Perspectives"
The riddle of extraordinary artistic creativity has always fascinated curious minds in East and West. This talk discusses the psychological and spiritual approaches to art and artistic genius as it compares European views of creativity with those of the Hindu tradition. Dr.Sudhir Kakar is India’s leading psychoanalyst, in addition to being a novelist, and a scholar in the fields of Cultural Psychology and the Psychology of Religion. Dr. Kakar’s many honours include the Bhabha, Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowships, Fellowships of the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton, Berlin and the Centre for Advanced Study of Humanities, University of Cologne, the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany’s Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Dr. Kakar is the author / editor of twenty two books of non-fiction and five of fiction. His latest books are Young Tagore: The makings of a genius (Penguin-Viking, 2013) and the novel The Devil Take Love ( Penguin,2015) . His books have been translated into twenty-two languages around the world. Thanks & Regards Aisha Khalifa Gallery Gitanjali E-212,31st January Road, Fontainhas,Panjim, Goa-403001 India www.gallerygitanjali.com 00918806035195