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A vision for art
The University of Hyderabad (UoH) plans to improve its golden threshold campus in the city with a view to establishing a cultural hub of the university. The gesture of Sarojini Naidu\'s family in providing the premises to establish the UoH was recalled and also the fact that SN School was established to acknowledge this gesture.
The University of Hyderabad (UoH) plans to improve its golden threshold campus in the city with a view to establishing a cultural hub of the university. The gesture of Sarojini Naidu's family in providing the premises to establish the UoH was recalled and also the fact that SN School was established to acknowledge this gesture.
Eminent danseuse and cultural historian, Dr Padma Subramanyam was the chief guest at Natraj Ramakrishna Memorial Lecture, she said, “The plan to encourage art by providing spaces for art exhibition, classical programmes, etc by opening a small museum.”
Recalling the significant contributions of NRK as he was known, she acknowledged his versatility in Perini. She further elaborated on Bharata's Natyasastra and his “rasa” concept. Dr Padma's talk dwelt with the date, content and philosophy of Bharata's Natyasastra.
In the well attended lecture she emphasised the need for one to revisit and understand Indian history from an indigenous perspective. Categorically stating that the Puranas were treasure houses of information that could hardly be understood by Westerners; she also stated that these sources ought to be used interpret Indian treatises and philosophy.
Dismissing the commonly accepted date of Natyasastra propounded by scholars as between 500 BCE and 500 CE, Dr Padma firmly places the text several millennia before to the time of Valmiki’s Ramayana (the date of birth of Rama being’ 11 February 4433 BCE).
Citing several references, textual, historical, mythological and geographical from within the text that lend authenticity to her statement she said that while the content of the text could be of a much earlier period, the text by itself could be the authorship of one individual.
Commenting on the philosophy of Bharata Dr Padma believed that the idea of dance as envisaged by Bharata was to create beauty, educate and elevate. She added that the refined and beautiful have always been associated with divinity. She demonstrated the universality of the compendium and its applicability, saying that the tenets of Natyasastra could also be used to interpret Ballet.
Dr Padma concluded her talk with a visual aid presentation where a significantly alien (western) music of Tchaikovsky was used by her to dance to the epic story of Ravana abducting Sita. The evening was presided over by Pro Vice-Chancellor of the UoH, Prof. BP Sanjay, Dean SN School, Prof. Ramalinga Sastry, HOD Dance Dept. Dr Sivaraju, Dr Kalakrishna and Professors from the Department of Dance.
