TALK "On Grief and Dharma: Encountering a ‘hard bhāva’ in the Mahābhārata and Tagore" An illustrated talk by Professor Purushottama Bilimoria at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 27th January 2016

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 27/01/2016 18:30 27/01/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "On Grief and Dharma: Encountering a ‘hard bhāva’ in the Mahābhārata and Tagore" An illustrated talk by Professor Purushottama Bilimoria Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/01/talk-on-grief-and-dharma-encountering.html Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : "On Grief and Dharma: Encountering a ‘hard bhāva’ in the Mahābhārata and Tagore" An illustrated talk by Professor Purushottama Bilimoria, senior research fellow with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, senior lecturer at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He is a Chancellor's Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; an honorary professor at the Deakin University and senior fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia

 The presentation explores recent thinking on the 'hard emotions', in particular, grief, sorrow and mourning, and links the challenging inner and social condition to the calling of Dharma (righteous law, normatively worthy action).  Drawing from some comparative work (academic and personal) in the study of grief, mourning and empathy, the talk will discuss the treatment of this tragic pathos in classical Indic literature and modern-day psychotherapy.  Drawing on the moving series of paintings (especially of women in various shadows of grief by Rabindranath Tagore),  the talk will demonstrate that even though secularised, these emotions continue to serve as the sites of imagination at much deeper personal and inter-personal levels. As such these bhāva-s (that don't always play out in corresponding rasas-s) are not antithetical to a dharmic quest despite their haunting presence even when 'the four walls collapse around one in the intensity of duḥkha'

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