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Its omnipresent, said Raghvendra Singh,former Secretaryofthe Ministry of Culture whohadcurated the IndiasRootsandRoutesexhibitionattheNational Gallery of Modern Arton account of the G20 last year..
Singhs 50-minute presentationon the exhibition exploredthematic richness, curatorial challenges, and theimpact of such exhibitions onIndias cultural narrative.Dalrymple vouched for the exhibits rarity.In.
Itisthe first time that an exhibition has seen such large-scale participation to showcase original antiquities.Sixteen iconic institutions of India, including the Indian Museum in Kolkata, Chennai and Chandigarh andtheAsiatic Society of Kolkatasent out their antiques to Singh and his team.From the depiction of love and music to reflections on nature and spirituality, each artefactwas a marker ofIndias civilisational ethos...
When an audience member asked Singh about the state of the project, he saidThe space in the National Museum and its collection, you know, what India is and what Indias National Museum ought to reflect is not there..
So, all that talk is going on, he said.. Dalrymple soon intervened and questioned Singh about whether the suggestion thatthe British Museum would assist Indiain building new museums at the North and South Blocks was true.I think there is some talk, Singh replied, addingthat it would takefive, six orevenseven yearstoproperly curatethe museumsand comeup with a museology school...
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