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Its an open space for an audience thats curious,interested and looking to explore beyond ones disciplines and boundaries.

Its an open space for an audience thats curious,interested and looking to explore beyond ones disciplines and boundaries. The Panjab University (PU),Chandigarh,has initiated a Colloquia Series,which will have guests from various fields of art,literature,science and economics from across the country,talk and interact with students,teachers and audiences.

Planned as monthly interactive sessions,the idea of the colloquium lectures,according to Professor AK Grover,Vice-Chancellor,PU,is to provide a platform for intellectual,creative and artistic exchange. While each department will have its own colloquium,the monthly ones will address a wider audience from outside the campus. It doesnt matter what discipline you belong to,these exchanges are mean to wake one up,explore possibilities,learn about diverse fields and share interests. The response to Professor BN Goswamys lecture,the first in the series,indicates that we are on the go, says Archana Singh,Chairperson,Department of Mass Communication.

An eminent art historian,Goswamy is,at present,Professor Emeritus,Department of Art History and Visual Arts,Panjab University,and his first lecture on Friday on Ways of Seeing: The World of The Indian Painter had the audience absorbed. Goswamy began with the definition of the word kavi a person with fine understanding,a prophet or thinker who is able to go behind appearance. A scientist,a psychologist or a sociologist would look at art in a singular way but the work of art is like an onion one layer opens after another. There has to be an awareness that there is something in every layer, he said.

Explaining the various ways of looking at art,he added that there is no one way of seeing,rather there are strategies of seeing a work of art,all you have to do is open the eyes and mind to look from various angles. Contrary to the usually held impression,the traditional Indian painter was not someone who simply plied an imitative brush.

In his own manner,he was a thinker,someone who saw things differently,but with great clarity. In the illustrated lecture,Goswamy aimed at leading the viewer into the painters world and,in the process,engage with some great works of Mughal and Rajput painters.

Interspersed with beautiful couplets in Hindi and Urdu,Goswamys lecture decoded works of art and interpreted them in a new light.

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Talking Heads

Its an open space for an audience thats curious,interested and looking to explore beyond ones disciplines and boundaries.

Its an open space for an audience thats curious,interested and looking to explore beyond ones disciplines and boundaries.