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pre noon (Bilawal), noon (Sarang) cry of peacock and its presiding Cultural Calendar - October 2017 afternoon (, ), deity is the Fire God Agni, with the dusk (Marwa, Aiman), evening colour being the white of a lotus; (, Des) and finally, late at night re was said to be the cry of the Performances by ICC students at “Shilpa Abhimani – 2017” (Malkaus, Kanhara), Ustad Rashid hawk, the deity represented is Khan, a leading singer today, does 6 - 8 International Handicrafts Exhibition Brahma and the colour is red; ga Friday - Sunday organized by the National Crafts Council, Sri Lanka not like to even do riyaaz (practice) is the sound of a goat, the deity is Venue: BMICH, Colombo 07 of a morning in the evening ! Goddess Saraswati and the colour Sanskarika is green; ma is the call of the deer Not only the mood and time of a Newsletter of the Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo October 2017 and is represented by Lord Shiva, raga, but the visual depiction of whose colour is blue, pa is the call , is enlightening too. There are Garba and Dandiya Night 6 of the cuckoo bird; Lord Vishnu is six main ragas, pictorially always Organized by the Friday the deity, the colour is Black; dha Hindi students of ICC 6.00 p.m. depicted as males. Each of these is the neighing horse represented Venue: ICC Auditorium onwards has eight female consorts and eight sons, or ragaputras. The familial by Lord Ganesha and the colour is links are made due to the notes of yellow; ni is the elephant’s trumpet, Friday matinee Hindi Film – Manjhi – The mountain man the ragas that link them. The visual symbolized by the Sun God and the colour is a combination of all (duration – 2hrs) depiction of ragas in the series of Directed by Ketan Mehta the other six colours. The late Ustad Ragamala paintings was started 13 Starring – , Radhika Apte, Friday around the 15th century in various Vilayat Khan, sitar wizard, too, and Urmila Mahanta 3.00 p.m. courts –Mughal, Deccan, Pahari , associated ragas with colours as Venue: ICC Auditorium Rajasthani and Central Indian. The well as images. These inescapable earliest known Ragamala paintings connections between sound and date back to 1475 and were visual, mood and time, prevailing found in . since the last 500 years or so are Hindustani Violin Recital 20 indeed a marvel. How a sur(note) by the disciples of Dr. Somasiri Illesinghe Friday The seven notes – sa re ga ma pa sung at the appropriate time, can Venue: ICC Auditorium 6.00 p.m. dha ni – were also symbolized create a strong emotion or indeed by the cry of an animal as well a physical phenomenon like rainfall as its representing deity and a is truly miraculous! Asia Pacific Choir Games colour to aid the process of visual Workshops representation. Thus according to Source : India Perspectives 22 - 28 Organized by Colombo Cultural Hub and Intekultur Sunday - Saturday one manuscript, sa was taken to be March - June 2017 (Closed Event) Venue: ICC Auditorium

Programmes subject to change Published by the Indian Cultural Centre,16/2, Gregory’s Road, Colombo 07. Tel: 011 2684698 Admission to all programmes are on first come first serve basis. Email: [email protected] Facebook: facebook.com/indianculturalcentre All are cordially invited 2330195 UNIE ARTS, P.C.: India Perspectives Cultural Tapestry There are also specific ragas meant pouring rain or dark overhanging to be performed during two of clouds. The lyrics, too talk about the six main seasons spring and clouds rain and thunder. There Moods of the ragas to have esoteric origins as their monsoon. Raga and are many tales of concerts rendering is linked with so many are specifically sung in spring in the bringing on rains, even in modern day or at night. times.. Intrinsic to the musical heritage other ideas of mood (rasa), colour, of India, ragas possess not just seasons and time - concepts that The lyrics are also to do with Apart from representing different auditory beauty but also visual and don’t have anything to do with blooming flowers and verdant moods, ragas are also linked to the cultural richness notes. The Sanskrit word ‘raga’ in forests. A famous composition in theory of time. There are specific Shailaja Khanna fact, translates into emotion and Basant talks of the dairy maids going times of day at which specific colour. to pluck the profusion of flowers in ragas are to be performed. This Ragas are integral part of Indian. the forests of Vrindavan Raga Megh concept is still adhered to in the classical music, and are indeed a Each raga is a melodic idea that uses and various forms of Malhar are north Indian classical tradition. Left: Raga Basant, 18th century, Bundi, from a collection of HK Swali; (Right:) a 17th purely Indian concept seeming at least five notes of the octave, There are pre dawn ragas (, century Manwar painting depicting Raga performed in the monsoon and are associated with the rains – visually Ramkali) ragas to be sung at dawn and two ragas may have exactly the melancholic solitude (vairagya). shown as dark blue or grey, with () in the morning (), same set of notes like Darbari and Ragas like Des and are but their sound and the considered romantic, Bhupali mood they create are completely brings peace and Shri is a raga different, since they use the same of vairagya. There are anecdotes notes differently. Rasa or emotion associated with many of the is associated with a raga - a raga ragas too, delineating their cultural like is meditative, while the significance. According to one same set of notes with different anecdote, Raga , a emphasis in Raga Marwa create a lyrical, light raga was being played restless energy. Raga Sohini, also on the sitar and a spider on the with similar notes, is effervescent wall nearby slowly started inching and is associated with the season towards the music. The moment of spring. The examples are too the notes of the sombre and many to enumerate! melancholic Raga Malkaus began Ragas can evoke the nine rasas to play, however, the spider ran back up the wall! This experiment An imaginary depiction of Mughal emperor akbar watching Tansen receive a or emotions- the predominant was repeated two or three times, lesson from Swami Harida (Mughal miniature painting). Miniature painting in India ones being love (shringara), Left: Kalubha ragini, Rajasthani miniature painting ; (right:) Raga Bhairav, 18th century, often depicted ragas in human form or associated with gods peace (shanti), detachment and with exactly the same result. Deccan