LILA PRISM lecture "Theyyam Ritual As Continuity: Annapoorneswari's Worlds" a talk by Pepita Seth at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm to 8:30pm on 4th October 2014

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Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Add to Calendar 04-10-2014 19:00:00 04-10-2014 20:30:00 68 LILA PRISM lecture "Theyyam Ritual As Continuity: Annapoorneswari's Worlds" a talk by Pepita Seth Event Page : http://goo.gl/Qt0C0B Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Venue : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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Event Description : LILA PRISM lecture "Theyyam Ritual As Continuity: Annapoorneswari's Worlds" a talk by Pepita Seth, writer and photographer. 

Abstract: After arriving in central Malabar, the goddess Annaporneswari offered protection to everyone and sought links with surrounding shrines. She thereby bound the many different communities together, with even the local Theyyam deities becoming associated with her, reflecting and enhancing her importance. Today, this importance remains in the everyday life of the locality.

Bio of the Speaker: Pepita Seth trained as a film editor, worked on many British and American feature films. She first visited India in 1970, to retrace her soldier great-grandfather’s diary account of his role in the 1857 march from Calcutta to Lucknow. All her subsequent visits were to Kerala, where she photographed Hindu rituals throughout the state. She lived in Kerala from 1979 to 1986 and, although based in Delhi from 1986-1999, made extended visits to Kerala to begin photographing Theyyam. In late 1999, she returned to Kerala. After working for 7 years on her book Heaven on Earth: The Universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple she restarted her still ‘in progress’ work on the Theyyam rituals of Malabar. In 2012 she was awarded the Padma Shree.


Bio of the Chair: Lotika Varadarajan, currently Tagore National Fellow at the National Museum, New Delhi, will chair the lecture and moderate the discussion. With a varied background, including higher studies at the Universities of Delhi and Bombay, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and Newnham College, University of Cambridge, U.K., her present field of interest is ethno-history, with special emphasis on indigenous artisanal knowledge systems and related art traditions within the local cultural context. Currently, she is also associated with the Centre of Traditional Knowledge, Ambedkar University, New Delhi. Widely traveled both within the country and outside, she has delivered ten Endowment and Special Lectures. She is the author of seventy-five articles and nine books.

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