Jugalbandi: A Fusion of Art and Poetry March 24, 2010

The father daughter duo of Mr. Ram Varma and Ms. Vandana Sehgal presents Doublet art work”

A combination of Architectural and spiritual musings going to melt into incorporeal art at a solo exhibition cum book launch being presented by Ms. Vandana Sehgal along with her father, Mr. Ram Varma, at The Lalit on the occasion of Ram Navmi, on 24th march, 2010.

Aspired to make painting a passion, Vandana is an architect by profession and if we talk about her father then he is a retired IAS officer and was English lecturer in Jodhpur University. Ram Varma was drawn to the fount of English poetry right from his school day, but he entered the charmed world of Vedas, Valmiki, Vyasa, Kalidasa and Bhasa after his retirement.

Ram Varma’s rendering “Before He was God, Ramayana, and Reconsidered, recreated” is refreshingly different from the Valmiki’s Ramayana where ram is a historical figure like Krishna or Buddha. His re-creation takes support on the bedrock of the latest textual, sociological and archeological research. In his own words, “the story recited by the well meaning pundits of Puranic times was an senseless exaggeration.

Exhibition cum Book launch: Before He was God, Ramayana, Reconsidered, recreated.
Date: 24.03.10
Time: 4.30
Venue: The Lalit, (near Bengali Market)