tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post1438972758705831185..comments2024-03-28T07:50:54.044-07:00Comments on anisha shekhar mukherji: National and Regional Identity in Design: Part Ianisha shekhar mukherjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08904611771998738664noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-90764454895390199882013-12-11T05:36:16.069-08:002013-12-11T05:36:16.069-08:00Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam
Namaste. Anisha Sekh...Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam<br /><br />Namaste. Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam thank you very much for your precious comment to my Lamps of India message.<br /><br />Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam very good article on Traditional saris of India. Anisha madam in my blog you find several posts with the images of vintage indian postcards in traditional saree wearing like this.<br /><br />http://indian-heritage-and-culture.blogspot.in/2012/12/indian-woman-in-19th-century-vintage.html<br /><br />Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam your blog's articles covered many topics with so much useful information and some of those topics are of my interest. Anisha madam i like your blog and just now i joined as a member to your blog.<br /><br />Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam please look into my latest post "The Ramakien - Thailand Ramayana" and give your valuable comment for the same.<br /><br />http://indian-heritage-and-culture.blogspot.in/2013/12/the-ramakien-thailand-ramayana.html<br /><br />Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam apart from sharing my knowledge and collections through my Heritage of India blog i am also sharing my knowledge with school and college students by giving seminars to them on Indian Heritage and Culture. Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam so far i gave 2 seminars to students and these are my 2 seminars links.<br /><br />http://indian-heritage-and-culture.blogspot.in/2013/02/my-first-seminar-on-indian-heritage-and.html<br /><br />http://indian-heritage-and-culture.blogspot.in/2013/07/my-second-seminar-on-indian-heritage.html<br /><br />Anisha Sekhar Mukherji madam please look into my above links and share your valuable comments. <br /><br />Thank you very much Anisha madam.dokka srinivasuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14640595403565294391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-23237182083955781212013-08-12T22:18:14.511-07:002013-08-12T22:18:14.511-07:00Thank you for your very encouraging,thought-provok...Thank you for your very encouraging,thought-provoking and useful comments. I have added captions to the photographs of the saris - all of those featured so far are Benarasis - to help clarify the text. I hope to add on a footnote and pictures of the lehnga as worn, too.<br /><br />Your point about the possible meanings and possibilities of 'design', is very pertinent. In fact, it makes me wonder about the equivalent term(s) in Hindi and Sanskrit, and how their meanings corelate with what we commonly understand about design in the English language. That may be an interesting line of enquiry, especially in looking at what design meant in the older Indian context. <br /><br />Sanskrit, in particular, has many synonyms for most terms, conceived in part to explain specific invested attributes of an object/person - a circumstance that paradoxically makes the language difficult to follow (something the medieval traveler to India, Al-Beruni remarked upon with dismay)since a word may simultaneously have literal, metaphorical or metaphysical meanings. <br /><br />Your observation about the many words for 'snow' that Eskimos have, makes me recollect the information that Anupam Mishra gives about the numerous words for 'water' and 'ocean' in the language of the people of Rajasthan - an area in India that has been a desert for centuries. This may seem strange and a little like wishful thinking, till one recollects that this is one of the places which is said to have been located on the route of the legendary river Saraswati (also revered as the Goddess of Learning) along whose banks the Vedas are said to have been composed. Interestingly, archaeological investigations reveal that a huge river once did flow in this desert area, with remnants of many cities of the Harrappan civilization alongside.<br /><br />The link between memories, language and objects, is indeed very complex. And I suppose as languages lapse or disappear, memories fade and objects and their design attributes transform.anisha shekhar mukherjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08904611771998738664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-85579262834733278702013-08-11T03:14:10.014-07:002013-08-11T03:14:10.014-07:00John Habraken, August 11
It was a pleasure to read...John Habraken, August 11<br />It was a pleasure to read this piece, in fact I did so several times. The sari is a very interesting example of an object thoroughly embedded in a culture, a form shared by all for many generations. The way you discuss it is very attractive and enlightening.<br /><br />Inevitably the subject raises the question of the meaning of the term ‘design’ and I like very much the idea of considering attributes to avoid definition. Yet the limitation of the English language ( or for that matter probably any language) to convey the many possible meanings remains. To name only three:<br />* Design as a proposal for something to be made by someone else.<br />* Design as the intention of the maker to make a personal variation on a familiar object<br />* Design as the way an object or configuration of parts presents itself - has been done.<br />One could go on.<br /><br />It would be nice if we had specific terms for these different meanings in the way the proverbial Eskimo known many words for ‘snow’<br />But mentioning this only makes me appreciate more the way you navigate these variations in your writing.<br /><br />As a non-native reader I do not know what, for instance, a lehnga looks like and how one wears it. Perhaps a footnote can be added to inform the ignorant.<br /><br />The pictures of the sari samples are wonderful, but one would like to know, for instance, which is the Benarasi example.<br /><br />I am looking forward very much to reading the follow up pieces,<br /><br />John HabrakenJohn Habrakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06444094858931704486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-87321419888165753212013-08-05T04:02:45.285-07:002013-08-05T04:02:45.285-07:00Thank You, Bharat ji,
I do hope the sari stages a...Thank You, Bharat ji, <br />I do hope the sari stages a come-back. It has so many things going for it, that it would be surprising if it didn't. But then, truth is stranger than fiction. anisha shekhar mukherjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08904611771998738664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-88119987646611185712013-08-04T08:11:27.295-07:002013-08-04T08:11:27.295-07:00An extremely beautiful piece of writing of the Sar...An extremely beautiful piece of writing of the Sari or Shatikaa as it was called in ancient times. This is an example of art work saris.<br /><br />Now what I am worried about is the disappearence of this garment. The modern Hindu mind is so colonised that young women are giving up saris saying it is unwieldy for modern conditions of hasty travel and quick movements. Now that only shows how women and men also have become unimaginative. Why not customize the sari for modern urbanoty? If Indian soldiers could fight in dhotis, if they can dance in saris,why can they reinvent it. If some designer like Ritu Beri is game, I can help her.<br /><br />Art work saris will survive only if work place are also used.<br /><br />Bharat Gupt<br />(Retd) Associate Professor, Delhi University,<br />Founder member and Trustee<br />International Forum for India's Heritage.<br />PO Box 8518, Ashok Vihar, Delhi 110052 INDIA.<br />mobile: +91-98100 77914<br />home phones: +91-11-2724-1490, +91-129-404-4590<br />email: bharatgupt@vsnl.com<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Gupt<br />Homepage: http://bharatgupt.comBharat Gupthttp://bharatgupt.comnoreply@blogger.com