Telangana : Inheritance of a Dream Lost

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Solo show of Thota Vaikuntam
Presented by Art Alive Gallery
29th January 2007 - 12th February 2007
Art Alive Gallery

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Born in 1942, Boorugupalli (Andhra Pradesh), Vaikuntam studied at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad from where he graduated in 1960. In 1971, he won the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship to study Painting and Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda under Prof. K.G. Subramanyan. He won the Bharat Bhavan Biennale Award, Bhopal in 1988 and the National Award awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1993. He has also received the National Award for Art Direction of film �Daasi� in 1988-89. He has held several solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions, prominent being VII International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1991; �Art Encounter�, Kassel, Germany, 1992; �India-Encounter II�, Lee Arthur Studio, New York, 1994-95. A retrospective show of his works was organised by Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi in 2005. The gallery has also published a book on his life and art written by Sushma Bahl. He lives and works in Hyderabad.

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Telangana : Inheritance of a dream lost
By Ina Puri

What is the Indian dream? And who, for that matter, is the Indian? Even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the definitional challenge. How can one approach this land of snow peaks and tropical jungles with 23 major languages and 22,000 distinct dialects, inhabited by over a billion individuals of every ethnic extraction known to humanity?

The country’s national motto, emblazoned on its governmental crest, is Satyameva Jayate: Truth alone triumphs. The question remains, however: whose truth?

[Shashi Tharoor, excerpted from his keynote addess at the Wharton India Economic Forum 2006]

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