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Art For Gender Equality In India

Art For Gender Equality In India

by The Daily Eye Team March 16 2016, 1:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

After a jam-packed month of arts-based social projects in slum communities in Delhi and Mumbai through the Shanti Arts for Action project, it was time for new adventures through a program organized by the Meridian International Center, based in Washington, DC. The program began in South Bombay’s Sitara Studio, where my wife, CJ, and I joined forces with local artist Krishna Sharma to facilitate the creation of a 40-foot canvas mural designed and painted with a group of 25 local students, to be displayed at one of India’s most prominent art festivals, Kala Ghoda.

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O.P. Srivastava


OP Srivastava is a career banker. His first feature documentary, Life in Metaphors, won the National Award for Best Biopic in 2015. In 2019, his first book, Life in Metaphors: Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli, was released. Followed by Banking on Technology (2020), Krishna Calling (2021) and Pillars of Parallel Cinema in April, 2022. He also runs a not-for-profit initiative, ‘Oorjaa’, for making and propagating ‘Cinema for a Cause’. In February 2023, he completed a fiction film ‘Banwari Ki Amma’, which was written, directed and produced by him.


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