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Artists Alert (1989)
Participating artists: K. M. Adimoolam, Krishen Ahuja, Akhilesh, Vasudevan
Akkitham, Altaf, Navjot Altaf, Amit Ambalal, Amitava Banerjee, Maitreyi Banerjee,
Prabhakar Barwe, Manjit Bawa, Bishen Bhardwaj, Veena Bhargava, R. B. Bhaskaran,
Jyoti Bhatt, Harinder Singh Bhatti, Pulak Biswas, Usha Biswas, Shobha Broota,
Arpana Caur, Jayashree Chakravarthy, Jagdish Chander, Kanchan Chander, Suneela
Bindra Chopra, Bijon Chowdhury, Dhiraj Chowdhury, Jogen Chowdhury, Walter
D’Souza, Devraj Dakoji, Pratibha Dakoji, Amitava Das, Biman Das, Jatin Das,
Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, Robin David, Ajay Desai, Meera Devidayal, Jagdish Dey,
Atul Dodiya, Ajit Dubey, Laxma Gaud, Siddhartha Ghosh, K. Ganesh Haloi, Somnath
Hore, M. F. Husain, Rummana Hussain, Nirmal Kapoor, Naresh Kapuria, Kishori Kaul,
Bhupen Khakhar, Krishen Khanna, K. Khosa, Devayani Krishna, Kanwal Krishna,
Lalitha Lajmi, Madan Mahatta, Sheila Makhijani, Nalini Malani, Robin Mandal, Alex
Mathew, Anjoli Ela Menon, Leila Mukherjee, Meera Mukherjee, Mrinalini Mukherjee,
Reddeppa Naidu, Badri Narayan, Naren Nath, Akbar Padamsee, Jyoti Pandya,
Prashant Panjiar, Mukul Panwar, Madhvi Parekh, Manu Parekh, Gieve Patel, Jeram
Patel, Nagji Patel, Sudhir Patwardhan, Ashok Prajapati, Om Prakash, Surya Prakash,
Pushpamala N., Ram Rahman, Mona Rai, Raghu Rai, A. Ramachandran,
Raghavendra Rao, D. L. N. Reddy, Ravinder Reddy, Rekha Rodwittiya, Shyamal Roy,
Suhas Roy, Jehangir Sabavala, Piraji Sagara, G. R. Santosh, B. C. Sanyal, Paritosh Sen,
Himmat Shah, Parthiv Shah, Shamshad, Satish Sharma, Archana Shastri, Lalu Prasad
Shaw, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Ketaki Sheth, Deepak Shinde, Vilas
Shinde, Siddharth, Arpita Singh, Gurcharan Singh, Paramjit Singh, Prem Singh,
Raghubir Singh, Tejbir Singh, K. G. Subramanyan, Anupam Sud, Sudha, Vivan
Sundaram, B. V. Suresh, J. Swaminathan, Soni Taraporevala, Vasundhara Tewari,
S. G. Vasudev, Umesh Verma, S. S. Vohra, Yusuf, Moti Zharotia.
Chauraha: All India Street Theatre Festival, Delhi (1989)
Participating theatre groups: Chennai Kalai Kuzhu (Chennai), Duggar Manch
(Jammu), Indian People’s Theatre Association (Patna), Jagar Ladhau Lok Kala Aghadi
(Maharashtra), Jan Kala Manch (Bhavnagar, Gujarat), Jana Natya Manch (Delhi),
Praja Natya Mandali (Andhra Pradesh), Ritwik (West Bengal), Samudaya
(Karnataka).
Chauraha: All India Street Theatre Festival, Delhi (1990)
Participating theatre groups: Aavahan (Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh), Abhinaya (West
Bengal), Garage Studio (Ahmedabad, Gujarat), Goregaon Cultural Unit (Mumbai),
Jana Natya Manch (Delhi), Progressive Writers’ Association Theatre Group (Tamil
Nadu), Rang Chetna (Trichur, Kerala), Sahas (Cuttack, Orissa), Vihan (Banaras, Uttar
Pradesh).
Chauraha: All India Street Theatre Workshop (1991)
Resource persons: Ramgopal Bajaj, Rati Bartholomew, Bhaskar Chandavarkar,
Chandralekha, Rang Chetana G. P. Deshpande, Sudhanva Deshpande, Hasan, Alpana
Khare, Aishwarj Kumar, Sonal Mansingh, Sadanand Menon, Dadi Pudumjee, M. K.
Raina, Joy Sengupta, Tripurari Sharma, R. S. Shelke, Madan Gopal Singh.
Janotsav (1989)
Coordinators of Janotsav workshops:
Music: Kajal Ghosh, Madan Gopal Singh
Photography: Parthiv Shah
Fine Art & Graphics: Amit Paul, Pratibha Dakoji
Theatre: Habib Tanvir, Ashish Ghosh
Street Theatre: Rati Bartholomew, Jana Natya Manch
Environmental Projects: Romi Khosla, National Institute of Science, Technology and
Development Studies (NISTADS)
Painting: Vivan Sundaram, Shamshad
Literature and Poetry (Hindi and Urdu): M. M. P. Singh, Gauhar Raza
Dance: Bharat Sharma, Madhavi Mudgal
Video/TV: Sashi Kumar, Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT)
Puppetry & Creative Writing (English): Dadi Pudumjee, Randhir Khare
Newsletter: Anil Chandra, Indian Institute of Mass Communications (IIMC)

Children’s Books
PED
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Mickey Patel
RED FLOWER
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Mona Rai
BANSURIWALA
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Arpita Singh
HOLI
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Mohandas N. N.
GADBAD GHOTALA
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: B. V. Suresh
KITABEN
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Surendran Nair
SARE MAUSAM ACCHHE
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Nilima Sheikh
DUNIYA SABKI
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Bindia Thapar
NATAK KI DUNIYA
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Bindia Thapar
BAGH KI SAIR
Author: Safdar Hashmi
Illustrations: Vasudevan Akkitham
BAPU
Author: Uma Shankar Joshi
Illustrations: Madhavi Parekh
CHAMPA
Author: Haku Shah
Illustrations: Haku Shah
BAPU KA AITIHASIK MUKADMA
Author: Mulk Raj Anand
Illustrations: Shamshad
IDGAH
Author: Premchand
Illustrations: Jehangir Jani
SITARA GIR PADEGA
Author: Madhukar Upadhyaya
Illustrations: Sanjay Sharma
TOTA KAHANI /
THE STORY OF THE PARROT
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Illustrations: Patuas from Bengal
VIR PURUSH /
THE BRAVE LITTLE MAN
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Illustrations: Patuas from Bengal
BRISHTI PARE TAPAR TUPUR /
DAYLIGHT IS FADING
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Illustrations: Patuas from Bengal
Artists Against Communalism
AAC Delhi (1991)
Participants: Javed Akhtar, Manjit Bawa, Arpana Caur, Hari Prasad Chaurasia,
Fahimuddin Dagar, Dagar Bandhu, Jatin Das, Astad Deboo, Gopi Gajwani,
Moloyashree Hashmi, Shanti Hiranand, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bansi Kaul, Amjad Ali Khan,
Asad Ali Khan, Sabri Khan, Shafat Ahmad Khan, Krishen Khanna, Yamini
Krishnamurthy, Sharon Lowen, Birju Maharaj, Sonal Mansingh, Joy Michael, Rajan &
Sajan Mishra, Madhup Mudgal, Shubha Mudgal, Vishnu Nagar, Bansi Parimoo,
Indrani Rahman, M. K. Raina, Rahi Masoom Raza, Raja & Radha Reddy, Bhisham
Sahni, Leela Samson, Kiran Sehgal, Uma Sharma, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Prayag
Shukla, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh, Vivan Sundaram, J. Swaminathan, Habib Tanvir,
Wadali Brothers, Jana Natya Manch, and Naya Theatre.
AAC Aligarh (1991)
Participants: Manjit Bawa, Gopal Das, Rita Ganguli, Yunus Husain Khan, Sharon
Lowen, Sonal Mansingh, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Dadi Pudumjee, Lalit Rao, Ale Ahmad
Saroor, Shaharyar, Pt. Narendra Sharma, Vivan Sundaram, and Naya Theatre.
AAC Mumbai (1991)
Participating artists: Shamim Ahmed, Javed Akhtar, Kishori Amonkar, Aarti Ankalikar,
Kankana Banerjee, Ranjit Barot, Neela Bhagwat, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Baharuddin
Dagar, Fahimuddin Dagar, Wasifuddin Dagar, Zahiruddin Dagar, Astad Deboo,
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Sitara Devi, Nida Fazli, Dhruv Ghosh, Nayan Ghosh,
Shobha Gurtu, A. K. Hangal, M. F. Husain, Ali Sardar Jafri, Pt. Jasraj, Dileep Jhaveri,
Satish Kaleskar, Ulhas Kasalkar, Prabhakar Kaslekar, Amjad Ali Khan, Sultan Khan,
Randhir Khare, Kartik Kumar, Sonal Mansingh, Mehol, Shubha Mudgal, Amol Palekar,
Raghunandan Pansikar, Prabodh Parikh, Daya Pawar, Dadi Pudumjee, Lalit Rao,
Raghunath Seth, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Gulammohammed Sheikh,
Maya Upadhyaya, and C.R. Vyas.
AAC: Images and Words (1991)
Participants: V. G. Abhimanue, Sam Adaikalasamy, Balbhadra Agarwala, Fatima
Ahmed, Krishen Ahuja, Ajmal Ajmali, Akhilesh, Javed Akhtar, Vasudevan Akkitham,
Abid Alami, Altaf, Navjot Altaf, Amarkant, Amit Ambalal, Amitabh, Anand
(P. Sachidanandan), B. Anoop, V. K. Asthana, Kirat Babani, Bashir Badr, Ramesh Bakshi,
Nazeer Banarsi, Manabendra Bandyopadhyay, Anandamoy Banerjee, Anuradha
Banerjee, Maitreyi Banerji, Jitendra Singh Baoni, Waseem Barelvi, Alif Ahmed Barq,
Abbas Batliwala, Hemi Bawa, Manjit Bawa, Manmohan Bawa, Harish Bhadani,
Mahendra Bhalla, P. Bhaskaran, R. K. Bhaskaran, Jyoti Bhatt, Bireswar Bhattacharjee,
Dilip Bhattacharya, Malini Bhattacharya, Harcharan Singh Bhatty, L. M. Bhaud, Tapan
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Bhowmik, G. S. Bhullar, Bharat Bhushan, Abdul Bismillah, Pulak Biswas, Swapan
Biswas, Usha Biswas, Neeta Borker, Bilash Bose, Gulabdas Broker, Shobha Broota,
Ajeet Caur, Arpana Caur, Bachint Caur, S. K. Chaddha, Sadhan Chakraborty, Jagdish
Chander, Kanchan Chander, Anil Chatterji, Sukumar Chatterji, Surjit Singh
Chaudhury, Chanchal Chauhan, Bal Chhabda, Chillar J. K., Sunila Bindra Chopra,
Bijon Chowdhury, Dhiraj Choudhury, Jogen Chowdhury, Medini Choudhury, Shail
Choyal, Peter Colaco, Dinesh Dadhichi, Prafulla Dahanukar, Naina Dalal, Amitava
Das, Biman Das, Jatin Das, Nirmalendu Das, Debrata De, Jagdish De, Ashapurna Debi,
Ajay Desai, Arvind M. Desai, Sanjay Desai, G. P. Deshpande, Chandrakant Devtale,
Ramlal Dhar, Santokh Singh Dhir, Shiv Doblia, Atul Dodiya, Ajit Dubey, Vinay Dubey,
Kartar Singh Duggal, Manoj Dutta, B. S. Elias, S. R. Faruqui, Nida Fazli, Mridula Garg,
Balwant Gargi, Ramesh Gaur, Kishore Ghosh, Rajat Kumar Ghosh, Sankho Ghosh,
Subha Ghosh, Phal S. Girotia, Olivinho J. F. Gomes, Adam Gondavi, Sheela Gowda,
Hari Om Gulati, Prabir Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Gurpreet, R. M. Hadapad, Muzafar
Hanafi, Sudhir Hasamnis, Chandana Hore, Reba Hore, Somnath Hore, Satakadi Hota,
Harbhajan Singh Hundal, M. F. Husain, Owais Husain, Rummana Hussain, B. Ingle, Ali
Sardar Jafri, Jagdish, Raj Jain, Habib Jalib, Ali Jawed, Gurmukh Singh Jeet, Ramahari
Jena, Prayag Jha, Dileep Jhaveri, Samar S. Jodha, Hema Joshi, Rajesh Joshi, Meena
Kakodkar, Kamal Kansara, Nirmal Kapoor, Naresh Kapuria, Prakash Karmakar, Basant
Kashyap, Nand Katyal, Bhushan Kaul, Rajinder Kaul, Amarjit Kaunke, Prabhjyot Kaur,
Surjit Kaur, Jagdish Kaushal, Dinkar R. Kaushik, Krishen Khanna, Randhir Khare,
Shuja Khawar, Saghar Khyami, Shri Kishorewala, Valson Kolleri, K. N. Kulkarni, K. S.
Kulkarni, Meenu Kulkarni, Shakuntala Kulkarni, U. Vijay Kumar, Punathil
Kunhabdullah, Prithpal Ladi, Shanu Lahiri, Lalitha Lajmi, Ram Lal, Rajiv Lochan,
Yurika Lochan, Promilla Luthra, Amritlal Madan, Jayanta Mahapatra, Madan
Mahatta, Sheila Makhijani, Nalini Malani, Robin Mandal, Anjana Mehra, Tyeb
Mehta, Ushakant Mehta, Arvind Membro, C. D. Mistry, Isha Mohammad, Wasi
Mohammad, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Kaushik Mukhopadhyaya, Ashok Mullick, Veer
Munshi, B. R. Musafir, M. K. Muthuswamy, Rakesh Nagar, Vishnu Nagar, Sachida
Nagdev, Bharat Naik, Surendran Nair, Vasudevan Nair, Jagdish Nandwana, Badri
Narayan, T. Narayan, Neena Nehru, Nisreen, Ashokan Paduval, Naren Panchal, Jyoti
Pandya, Mahendra Pandya, B. R. Panesar, Khumar Panipatti, Prashant Panjiar,
Mukesh Papiani, Madhavi Parekh, Manu Parekh, Bansi Parimoo, Ratan Parimoo,
Avinash Pasricha, Gieve Patel, Jeram Patel, Amaresh Pathak, Devilal Patidar, Ramesh
Chandra Patkar, Malati Pattanashetti, D. P. Pattanayak, Sudhir Patwardhan, Ashit
Paul, Neeraj Paul, S. Paul, Pavanan, Virendra Prabhakar, Vishnu Prabhakar, K.
Prabhakaran, Ashok Prajapati, Brahm Prakash, Uday Prakash, Nawab Punathil,
Pramod Pushkarna, Ram Rahman, Mona Rai, Sampurna Rai, Gargi Raina, Basav Raj,
Indira Raj, A. Ramachandran, V. Ramesh, Raghavendra Rao, Rekha Rao, Balbir Singh
Rathi, Manu Rathod, Balvir Rawat, Anand Shankar Ray, Debes Ray, Pratibha Ray,
Gauhar Raza, P. T. Reddy, T. Sudhakar Reddy, N. N. Rimzon, K. K. Rishi, Rekha
Rodwittiya, Samir Roy, A. G. Ryan, Jehangir Sabavala, Naveen Sagar, Bhisham Sahni,
Kashinath Salve, Soni Sanjeev, G. R. Santosh, Dayal Sarbapriya, K. Satchidanandan,
Shukla Sawant, Savinder Sawarkar, Amarnath Sehgal, P. S. Sehrai, Mrinal Sen,
Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Orijit Sen, Haku Shah, Parthiv Shah, Prabha Shah, Sumant Shah,
Shaharyar, Shamshad, Gauri Shankar, Sandeep Shankar, M. Shanthamani, Asha
Sharma, Bulbul Sharma, Natraj Sharma, O. P. Sharma, Sanjay Sharma, Satish Sharma,
Shyam Sharma, Suresh Sharma, M. Shashidharan, Archana Shastri,
Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Khushbash Sherawat, Shibu, Jin Sook
Shinde, Vilas Shinde, J. S. Shraddha, Shriprasad, Jaydev Shukla, Jayesh P. Shukla,
Prayag Shukla, Shuvaprasannna, Shrilekha Sikander, Arpita Singh, Bhagwan Singh,
Dayanita Singh, Gurcharan Singh, Gurdial Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Maheep Singh,
Namita Singh, Narenderpal Singh, Paramjit Singh, Prakash Singh, Prem Singh,
Rameshwar Singh, S. K. Singh, Thakur Dilip Singh, S. N. Sinha, Vrundavan Solanki,
Mahinder Soni, Sreejith, Vivan Sundaram, B. V. Suresh, J. Swaminathan, Ghulam
Rabani Taban, Habib Tanvir, Jaidev Thakore, Nita Thakore, N. Thiagarajan, Vasudha
Thozhur, Rajendra Kumar Tiku, Vinod Tiwari, Atiq Ullah, Kishore Umrekar, Carlos
Valles, R. Varadarajan, Venkatesh Vasudevan, Hemant Vayangarhkar, Vasantharao
Venkatarao, Umesh Verma, Rajesh Vora, Asghar Wajahat, Yusuf, Paul Zacharia, and
Zahoor Zargar.
Special banners at auction of Images and Words exhibition panels (1992)
Participating artists: Altaf, Navjot Altaf, Prabhakar Barwe, Bal Chhabda, Meera
Devidayal, Mehli Gobai, Owais Husain, Rummana Hussain, Prabhakar Kolte,
Shakuntala Kulkarni, Lalitha Lajmi, Nalini Malani, Aryana Mehra, Pritam Patil, Smin
Punegar, Pushpamala N., Deepak Shinde, Jinsook Shinde, Vilas Shinde, Lakshman
Shreshta, Srilekha Sikander, and Praful Vahanukar.
Ayodhya: Demolition of the Babri Masjid and After
Anhad Garje, Delhi (1993)
Participants included: Keshav Badge, Kankana Banerjee, Gopal Das Baul, Kartik Das
Baul, Randasi Baul, Nitai Das, Abdul Rab Fakir, Allan Fakir, Fakirni, Shobha Gurtu,
Shanti Hiranand, Shubha Mudgal, Bunger Khan, Hafiz Khan, Jaffar Husain Khan,
Gulam Husain Niyazi, Naseeb Pyare, Eltaf Husain Sarahang, Bhai Dilbagh Singh, and
Gulbagh Singh.
Posters by artists: Manjit Bawa, Gopi Gajwani, M. F. Husain, Nalini Malani, Akbar
Padamsee, Manu Parekh, Orijit Sen, Haku Shah, Shamshad, Gulammohammed
Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh, Vivan Sundaram.
Anhad Garje, Bombay, Gujarat, and Lucknow (1993)
Participating artists: Kishori Amonkar, Keshav Badge, Kankana Banerji, Bhakto Das
Baul, Neela Bhagwat, Hemant Chauhan, Atul Desai, Shobha Gurtu, Shanti Hiranand,

Pt. Jasraj, Sweta Jhaveri, Bungar Khan, Jafar Husain Khan, Shubha Mudgal, Nasib
Pyare, Eltaf Husain Sarahang, Bhadra Savai, Madan Gopal Singh, C. R. Vyas, Wadali
Brothers, Nasib Wali, and Warsi Brothers.
Hum Sab Ayodhya (1993)
Resource Persons: Aijaz Ahmad, Athar Ali, Rajinder Arora, Benoy Behl, Prakash
Bhakuni, Ravindra Bhan, Vani Bhan, Indira Chandrasekhar, Prashant Dhawan, Irfan
Habib, Suvira Jaiswal, Vivekanand Jha, Samar Jodha, Vijay S. Jodha, Geeta Kapur,
Bhupen Khakhar, Ravinder Kumar, Alex Mathew, Arun Mathur, Surendran Nair,
K. N. Panikkar, G. N. Pant, Madhu Prasad, Rajendra Prasad, Ram Rahman, M. K.
Raina, K. T. Ravindran, Rajat Ray, Shounack Ray, Sanjog, Arshiya Sethi, Parthiv
Shah, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Anisha Shekhar, P. K. Shukla, Kulwant Singh,
Snehanshu/team, Sushil Srivastava, Vivan Sundaram, Romila Thapar, and Asad Zaidi.
Muktnaad (1993)
Performers (individuals and groups): Girija Devi, Sitara Devi, Guru Kelucharan
Mahapatra, Rajan & Sajan Mishra, Madhavi Mudgal, Palakkad K.V. Narayanaswami
& Padma Narayanaswami, Swami Pagaldas, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Mandolin
Srinivas, IPTA (Indian People’s Theatre Association) Patna, Naya Theatre, Habib
Tanvir.
Participants (individuals and groups): Janaki Abraham, Dinesh Abrol, Imran Ahmad,
Shabi Ahmed, Akhilesh, Vidya Das Arora, Mohammad Aslam, Baharuddin, Akshaya
Bakaya, Pritam Bali, Sudip Banerjee, Pablo Bartholomew, Devdas Baul, Manmohan
Bawa, Manu Bhandari, Malini Bhattacharya, Mihir Bhattacharya, Amitava
Bhowmick, Gurcharan Bhullar, R. S. Bisht, Indira Chandrasekhar, Manini Chatterjee,
Aditi Chowdhury, Bijon Chowdhury, Amitabh Dasgupta, Manjira Datta, Ramesh Dixit,
Partho Dutta, Mehr Afsan Farooqui, Meenakshi Ganguli, Nanak Ganguly, Yubaraj
Ghimire, Siddharth Ghosh, Adam Gondavi, Ravindran Gopinath, Prabir Guha, Joyoti
Gupta, Ruchira Gupta, Suman Gupta, Sohail Hashmi, Rummana Hussain, Leela Dhar
Jaguri, Ajay Jaitley, Vijay Singh Jodha, S. Kalidas, Lima Kanungo, Geeta Kapur,
Prakash Karmakar, Girish Karnad, Kartik, Shaji Karun, Rajinder Kaur, Mohd. Farid
Kazmi, A. Khan, Alpana Khare, Romi Khosla, Pixie Lemac, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra,
Farida Mehta, Sadanand Menon, Kristine Michael, S. C. Mishra, Neelanjana Mukhia,
Javed Mulick, Babli Nagpal, Chitra Padmanabhan, S. K. Pande, K. N. Panikkar,
Prabhat Patnaik, Damini Pola, Ponnappa, Kalpana Prasad, Madhu Prasad, Ram
Rahman, Mahua Raichandani, Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan, Radhika Ramaseshan,
G.K. Govind Rao, Nina Rao, Sajeda Rashid, Anuradha Marwah Roy, Sudha Sachdev,
Bhisham Sahni, Kalpana Sahni, K. Satchidanandan, H. C. Satyarthi, Maya Satyarthi,
Lakshmi Sehgal, Sabina Sehgal, Sethu, Mukesh Shah, Parthiv Shah, Shamshad, Jugnu
Sharde, Rajendra Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Ramchandra Sharma, K. M. Shrimali, P.K.
Shukla, K. Marul Sidappa, Siddhalingaiah, Hisamul Islam Siddiqui, Madan Gopal
Singh, Ratan Singh, Sheetla Singh, Sushil Srivastava, Vivan Sundaram, P.
Sunderarajen, Prakash Upadhyaya, Urfi, S. G. Vasudev, Rajendra, Rooprekha Verma,
Neena Vyas, Yadav, Kalam Natya Manch, Sewa, Jana Natya Manch, Prayog, IPTA
(Indian People’s Theatre Association), Prerna, Vishal Natya Manch, Rashtriya Ekta
Kala Manch, Ensemble, Puppet Theatre, Alternative Living Theatre, and students and
teachers of Patna Art College.
Tribute to Gandhi
Postcards for Gandhi (1994–95) Exhibition of postcards in six cities: Delhi,
Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Calcutta and Ahmedabad.
Participating artists: V. G. Abhimanue, K. M. Adimoolam, Ravi Agarwal, Ajaykumar,
Vasudevan Akkitham, Navjot Altaf, Amit Ambalal, Abul Kalam Azad, Vijay Bagodi,
R. B. Bhaskaran, Jyoti Bhatt, Tapan Bhattacharyya, Arpana Caur, Barry Chan, Jagdish
Chander, Kanchan Chander, Bijon Chowdhury, Jogen Chowdhury, Walter D’Souza,
Amitava Das, Jatin Das, Sunil Das, Subha De, Atul Dodiya, M. J. Enas, Gopi Gajwani,
Siddhartha Ghosh, P. Gopinath, N. S. Harsha, Rummana Hussain, Nand Katyal,
Surjeet Kaur, Bhupen Khakhar, Krishen Khanna, Bharti Kher, Yunus Khimani,
Shakuntala Kulkarni, Ram Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Rajiv Lochan, Chitrabanu Majumdar,
Sheila Makhijani, Nalini Malani, Robin Mandal, Alex Mathew, Shami Mehndiratta,
Veer Munshi, Sashidharan Nair, Surendran Nair, Badri Narayan, R. M. Palaniappan,
Amlan Paliwal, Madhavi Parekh, Manu Parekh, Jeram Patel, Nagji Patel, Sudhir
Patwardhan, K. Prabhakaran, Prakash, Pushpamala N., Jayanti Rabadia, Ram
Rahman, Mona Rai, A. Ramachandran, Judy Blum Reddy, P. T. Reddy, N. N. Rimzon,
Rekha Rodwittiya, Indrapramit Roy, Suhas Roy, Jehangir Sabavala, Tara Sabharwal,
Shukla Sawant, Orijit Sen, Haku Shah, Parthiv Shah, Shambhavi, Shamshad, Bulbul
Sharma, Gulammohammad Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Shibu N., Deepak Shinde, V. M.
Shinde, Vilas Shinde, Shuvaprasanna, Prem Singh, Sanjiv Sinha, K. G. Subramanyan,
Anupam Sud, Vivan Sundaram, B. V. Suresh, Jaidev Thakore, Roy Thomas, Vasudha
Thozhur, R. Varadarajan, Umesh Verma, Viswanathan, Yusuf, and Babu Xavier.
Gift for India (1997)
Participating artists from India: Molly Abhimanue, V. G. Abhimanue, Ayisha Abraham,
Vasudevan Akkitham, Amit Ambalal, Abul Kalam Azad, T. M. Azis, Eleena Banik,
Jitendra Baoni, Arup Kumar Barua, Hemi Bawa, Pooja Broota, Shobha Broota,
Arpana Caur, Jagdish Chander, Kanchan Chander, Sukumar Chatterjee, Bhagwan S.
Chavan, Vidya Chitre, Suneela Bindra Chopra, Arunanshu Chowdhury, Gautam Das,
Samir Das, Subha De, Meera Devidayal, Manisha Doshi, Nicola Duruvasula, M. J.
Enas, Rajan Fuleri, Sumati Gangopadhyay, Pramod Ganpatye, Manisha Gera, Shilpa
Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Suman Gupta, Archana Hande, Rummana Hussain, Shridhar
Iyer, Kavita Jaiswal, Jehangir Jani, Tushar Joag, Joejo, Hem Jyotika, Durga Kainthola,
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Bharati Kapadia, Vijayan Kannampilly, Naina Kanodia, Ratnabali Kant, Sachin Karne,
Ravi Kumar Kashi, Nand Katyal, Rajnish Kaur, Bhupen Khakhar, Yunus Khimani,
Shakuntala Kulkarni, Sushil Kumar, S. Kundu, Lalitha Lajmi, Shantanu Lodh, Madan
Mahatta, Pavan Mahatta, Sheila Makhijani, Nalini Malani, Anita Malhotra, Robin
Mandal, Alex Mathew, Vijay Saraf Meenagi, Mekhala, Neeta Mohindra, Prashant
Mukherjee, Kaushik Mukhopadhyay, Veer Munshi, S. Lakshmana Murthy, Peter Nagy,
Surendran Nair, Anuradha Nalapat, Babu Namboodiri K., P. K. Nandakumar, Shruti
Nelson, Madhavi Parekh, Manisha Parekh, Manu Parekh, Nagji Patel, Virendra Patel,
K. S. Radhakrishnan, Mimi Radhakrishnan, Ram Rahman, Gargi Raina, M. K. Rajan,
Chameli Ramachandran, N. N. Rimzon, Rekha Rodwittiya, Indrapramit Roy, Samir
Roy, Sanjay Roy, Sharmila Sawant, Amitabh Sengupta, Haku Shah, Kavita Shah,
Neehal Shah, Parthiv Shah, B. O. Shailesh, Shambhavi, Shamshad, Bulbul Sharma,
Natraj Sharma, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Jin Sook Shinde, Vilas
Shinde, Shrilekha Sikander, Anjum Singh, Sanjeev Sinha, Praneet Soi, P. Srinivasan,
K. G. Subramanyan, Vivan Sundaram, Shyam Sunder, B. V. Suresh, Vasundhara Tewari,
Nita Thakore, Roy Thomas, R. Varadarajan, Darshan Vora, Manoj Vyloor, and Yusuf.
Participating artists from outside India:
Australia: Lyndell Brown, Pip Cozens, Neil Degney, Edwin Easydorchik, Bonita Ely,
Charles Green, Noelene Lucas, Janis Somerville, Rodney Spooner, Robin Stieger,
Judith Wright
Brazil: Dora Longo Bahia, Angele Freiberger, Jeanette Musatt
Chile: Carlos Altamirano, Ian Szydlowski
Canada: Gwen Curry, Debora, Daniel Dion, Mansaram, Eric Metcalfe, Michael Morris,
Bryan Mulvihill, Su Schnee, Vincent Trasov, Henry Tsang, Richard Turner
Costa Rica: Kaisu Koivisto, Cecilia Paredes
France: Philippe Bouriette, Rajendre Dhawan, John Felton, Agathe de Filippi, Chantal
Georgens, Anne Rochette, Sarkis, Wade Saunders, Christopher Taylor, Viswanadhan.
Germany: Johannes Brus, Inge Mann, Peter Nagel, Julia Neuenhausen, Siegfried
Neuenhausen
Hong Kong: Choi Yan-Chi
Finland: Ilona Lovas
Indonesia: Nindityo Adipurnomo
Hungary: Heri Dono, Mella Jaarsma, Agus Suwage
Israel: Judith Guetta, Simcha Shirman
Kenya: Archana Hebbar
Japan: Andrew Wamae
Macau: Konstantin Bessmertny
Mexico: Vida Yovanovich
Netherlands: Kate Bowes
New Caledonia: Rene Boutin, Luc Harring, Shibu Natesan, Bernd Strik
Pakistan: Elizabeth Dadi, Iftikhar Dadi
Peru: Juan Enrique Bedoya, Anamaria McCarthy
Philippines: Imelda Cajipe Endaya
Puerto Rico: Rosa Irigoyan
Thailand: Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Pinaree Sanpitak, Vasan Sitthiket
UK: Rasheed Areen, Ranjana Appoo, Mark Cazalet, Stephen Cox, Alison Harper,
Timothy Hyman, Carl Jaycock, Richard Lannoy, Alnoor Mitha, Prafulla Mohanti,
Ranjana Thapalyal
USA: Ray Barrie, Lynda Benglis, Eric Bowen, Abraham David Christian, John Cross,
Linda Cross, Zarina R. Hashmi, Alfredo Jaar, Mary Kelly, Marta Violette Kot, Azyz
Sharafy, Paul Smith, Richard Turner
Vietnam: Vu Dan Tan
Art on the Move (2001)
Participating artists: Arunkumar H. G., Eleena Banik, Nicola Durvasula, M. J. Enas,
Subba Ghosh, Jehangir Jani, Tushar Joag, Reena Saini Kallat, Manjunath Kamath,
Bharti Kher, Sonia Khurana, M. Sovan Kumar, Prashant Mukherjee, Kaushik
Mukhopadhyaya, Veer Munshi, Mahua Ray, and L. N. Tallur.
Ways of Resisting (2002)
Participating artists: Altaf, Navjot Altaf, Pablo Bartholomew, Suranjan Basu, Arpana
Caur, Sheba Chhachhi & Sonia Jabbar, Atul Dodiya, Walter Emilio D’Souza, M. J. Enas
Probir Gupta, Rummana Hussain, Jehangir Jani, Jitish Kallat, Riyas Komu, Nalini
Malani, Veer Munshi, Surendran Nair, Akbar Padamsee, Prashant Panjiar, Sudhir
Patwardhan, Pushpamala N., Gargi Raina, Ram Rahman, Sahir Raza, N. N. Rimzon,
Inder Salim, Savi Savarkar, Parthiv Shah, Tejal Shah, Nataraj Sharma,
Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh, and Vivan Sundaram.
There was group participation from Open Circle (Mumbai), Vistaar (Bangalore), and
Voices against Violence (Vadodara). Alongside the exhibition, there was continuous
screening of video documentaries by Manjira Datta, Saba Dewan, Madhushree Dutta,
Shohini Ghosh, Suma Josson, Gopal Menon, Anand Patwardhan, Gauhar Raza, Rahul
Roy, Teesta Setalvad, and others.
The Making of India (2004)
Participating artists: M. Angley, Yusuf Arakkal, Kriti Arora, Arunkumar H. G., Abul
Kalam Azad, Sabrina Moutishi Banerjee, Eleena Banik, Pablo Bartholomew, Manisha
Gera Baswani, Veena Bhargava, Jyoti M. Bhatt, Vinayak Bhattacharya, Shobha
Broota, Arpana Caur, Samir Chakraborty, Kanchan Chander, Vidya Chitre, Jogen
Chowdhury, Samit Das, Rakhi De, Ajay Desai, Devendra, M. J. Enas, Gopi Gajwani,
Hema Guha, Subodh Gupta, Harshvardhan S., Saba Hasan, Pooja Iranna, Raja

Jaikrishen, Jehangir Jani, Rotabrata Joarder, Hem Jyotika, Ranbir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat,
Reeni Saini Kallat, Ratnabali Kant, Bharati Kapadia, Naresh Kapuria, Sachin Karne,
Nand Katyal, Krishen Khanna, Nawal Kishore, Riyas Komu, M. Sovan Kumar,
S. Prasanna Kumar, Nupur Kundu, Subrata Kundu, Shantanu Lodh, Sheila Makhijani,
Manmeet, George Martin, Merlyn, Neeta Mohindra, Prasanta Mukherjee, Veer
Munshi, Babu Namboodiri K., Madhavi Parekh, Manisha Parekh, Manu Parekh,
Ashim Purkayastha, Pushpamala N., Ram Rahman, Sukanya Rahman, N. N. Rimzon,
Tara Sabharwal, Piyali Sadhukaan, M. S. C. Satya Sai, Inder Salim, Gigi Scaria,
Anshuman Sen, Mithu Sen, Haku Shah, Parthiv Shah, Shamshad, Ajay Sharma,
Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh,
Prem Singh, Premalya Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Deepak Tandon, Roy Thomas, Umesh
Verma, Viswanadhan, and Ankita Yadav.
Making History Our Own (2007)
Participating artists: V. G. Abhimanue, Yusuf Arakkal, Kriti Arora, Kahini Arte-
Merchant, Arunkumar H. G., Abul Kalam Azad, Eleena Banik, Pablo Bartholomew,
Tapan Bhattacharya, Vinayak Bhattacharya, Shobha Broota, Arpana Caur, Samit Das,
Meera Devidayal, Anita Dube, M. J. Enas, Mahula Ghosh, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta,
Pooja Iranna, Jehangir Jani, Hem Jyotika, Manjunath Kamath, Sonia Khurana, Tamal
Krishna, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Lalitha Lajmi, Nitin Mukul, Veer Munshi, Peter Nagy,
Anuradha Pathak, Ashim Purkayastha, Pushpamala N., Ram Rahman, Sukanya
Rahman, Gargi Raina, Aditi Singh Reddy, Biswajit Saha, Inder Salim, Tanmoy
Samanta, Gigi Scaria, Mithu Sen, Shamshad, Bulbul Sharma, Gulammohammed
Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh, Kavita Sukhani,
Vivan Sundaram, Kiyomi Talaulicar, Deepak Tandon, and Zarina.
Free Speech and In Defense of Husain
For Husain at 94 (2009)
Participating artists: Hafeez Ahmed, Aji V. N., Navjot Altaf, Arunkumar H. G., M. S.
Prakash Babu, Eleena Banik, Richard Bartholomew, Sandeep Biswas, Shobha Broota,
Arpana Caur, Kanchan Chander, Pallav Chander, Amitava Das, Aurogeeta Das, Samit
Das, Ajay Desai, Venktesh Desai, Meera Devidayal, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya,
Priyanka Dua, Vibha Galhotra, Akash Gaur, Ashim Ghosh, Gauri Gill, Subodh Gupta,
Sunil Gupta, Archana Hande, Saba Hasan, Samjo Husain, Raja Jaikrishan, Jehangir
Jani, Vijay S. Jodha, Megha Joshi, Durga Kainthola, Ranbir Kaleka, Rashmi Kaleka,
Jitish Kallat, Bharati Kapadia, Showket Kathjoo, Nuzhat Kazmi, Alexis Kersey, Bharti
Kher, Bari Kumar, Nida Mahmood & Raoul Chandra, Mithila Maniketh, Alex Mathew,
Anjolie Ela Menon, Pravat Mishra, Neeta Mohindra, Veer Munshi, Mira Nair, Kavita
Nayyar, Satish Panchal, Birendra Pani, Prashant Panjiar & Itu Chaudhuri, Madhavi
Parekh, Manisha Parekh, Manu Parekh, Sudhir Patwardhan, Meher Pestonji,
Kanishka Prasad, Pushpamala N., Habib Rahman, Ram Rahman, Mona Rai, Gargi
Raina, Rekha Rao, Inder Salim, Tanmay Santra, Gigi Scaria, Vijay Sekhon, Joydip
Sengupta, Kaushik Sengupta, Haku Shah, Parthiv Shah, Shamshad, Mukesh Sharma,
Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh,
Prem Singh, Kaushal Sonkaria, Vivan Sundaram, Kiyomi Talaulicar, Tanmaya Tyagi,
Viswanadhan, Gazanfar Zaidi, and Tabassum Zaidi.
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