Ateliers of Love: A Journey of Poets, Painters and Patrons

Speaker: Harsh Dehejia

February 5, 2009 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

This coffee-table book along with a DVD, Ateliers of Love, is a journey of poets, painters and patrons featuring paintings of the loves of Krishna, His sports, divine deeds and above all the celebrated rasa lila. Krishna is not only for the royalty and the nobility. He belongs to the people, the potter and the puppeteer, the bride and the mother for He is celebrated at village fairs and in chowks. Equally the modern artist does not remain untouched by the magic of Krishna and depicts Him on his palette.

This mystical journey is a festival of heart throbbing love and pulsating romance, of tender moments of longing and belonging, and ultimately of listening to the flute of Krishna within oneself for that is where the journey ends.

To wait under the Kadamba tree is to invite Krishna into our lives and enter the magical and charmed world of His love.