"Roads of Bhakti Poetry" a talk by Dr Andrew Schelling at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 26th March 2012
Time : 6:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 ( IIC ) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - 1, Main Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Details : 'Roads of Bhakti Poetry' a talk by Dr Andrew Schelling, Jack Kerouac School, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado.
A translator from Sanskrit, Pali and Hindi and author of six volumes of poetry indebted to studies in ecology and ethnopoetics, the speaker has edited The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011), and describes how Bhakti is ‘salted’ with an intensity that requires intellectual effort and a great deal of honest probing to get close to, how efforts to break free of social constraint took hundreds of forms across India and the resonances this literature evokes for audiences far removed in time and place.
Chair : Vidya Rao, scholar and singer
Related Links : Poetry
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 ( IIC ) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - 1, Main Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Details : 'Roads of Bhakti Poetry' a talk by Dr Andrew Schelling, Jack Kerouac School, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado.
A translator from Sanskrit, Pali and Hindi and author of six volumes of poetry indebted to studies in ecology and ethnopoetics, the speaker has edited The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011), and describes how Bhakti is ‘salted’ with an intensity that requires intellectual effort and a great deal of honest probing to get close to, how efforts to break free of social constraint took hundreds of forms across India and the resonances this literature evokes for audiences far removed in time and place.
Chair : Vidya Rao, scholar and singer
Related Links : Poetry
"Roads of Bhakti Poetry" a talk by Dr Andrew Schelling at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 26th March 2012
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