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THE birth centenary of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya is being celebrated at the NGMA with the work of Paramparik Karigars. The exhibition sponsored by the Aditya Birla group remains open till January 26, Republic Day. Kamaladevi helped organise the first World Crafts Council and was its Senior Vice President. She was also the President of the All India Handicrafts Board for as many as 17 years. In 1952, she helped set up the Central Cottage Industries Emporium and the Indian Cooperative Union. This extraordinary lady was also the President of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. One of her final activities was the formation of the Paramparik Karigar,which today is run by a full-fledged managing committee headed by J. Gurappa Chetty.
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GREAT oaks from little acorns grow.
Chiara Lubich, the white haired charismatic lady, who founded the International Focolare Movement, is in Mumbai confabulating with faculty and students and her old friend Dr. Somaiya at the K.J. Somaiya College and attending inter-religious meetings at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
Other meetings have been lined up (January 19) with Focolare members at their Bandra and Andheri Centres.
Focolare means the flame of love in Italian and Lubich was a primary school teacher in Trent when she founded the Focolare in the middle of the Second World War. Today, the Focolare movement has global presence in 182 countries of the world with over 120,000 members and some two million people who work "to bring together the human family in unity".
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THE Max Mueller Bhavan and Herr Joseph Sartorius from Munich have brought to Mumbai "The Magic of Distant Lands", an exhibition of 39 photographs by the Schlagintweit Brothers.
On show at the Hacienda Art Gallery till January 30, the photos were taken by Hermann and Adolf Schlagintweit during their 1854-57 expedition to India and North Asia.
The expedition was financed by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the British East India Company following the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, advisor to the Prussian king.
RONITA TORCATO
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