Join Contemporary artist Seema Kohli and distinguished Religious Studies scholar Dr. Linda Hess in a transforming discussion of Hariti, an ancient Goddess in a new Avatar. Experience how painting, drawing, sculpture and poetry by Harti assume a creative, expansive, and liberated form freed of gender, race, time and social conventions. Image: Hariti by Seema Kohli

Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting pre-modern and classical Indo-Persian miniature painting traditions and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Her practice explores gender roles, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories. This talk will present her powerful oeuvre, creative process, and multidisciplinary work, illuminating her critical […]

SACHI Invites Members and Friends to a Summer Offering of Theater and Lunch. A special weekend brunch at Amber Restaurant, Los Altos will be followed by Bay Area Drama Company’s Live Production of The Square Root of a Sonnet based on the life and story of Nobel Prize winning scientist, S. Chandrasekhar (1910-1995). The performance […]

SACHI and Asian Art Museum are honored to present celebrated Essayist, Novelist and Travel Writer Pico Iyer In Conversation with Paula Arai, Buddhist Studies scholar-practitioner, and Robert Mintz. Deputy Director, Asian Art Museum. Pico’s conversation will feature two most recent works on his adopted home country, Japan. These include Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan. Please see the attached invitation for more […]

Between the 14th and 18th centuries, a multitude of magnificent buildings were erected in the Deccan region of India by the Islamic Sultanates. Dr. Philon’s discussion on this architectural heritage will focus on the Bahamanis (with their courts in Gulbarga and Bidar) and the more versatile cultural legacy of the Adil Shahis (a prominent group […]

In the complex political landscape of the Indian subcontinent in the 16th and 17th centuries, portraits did more than simply convey a likeness of the sitter. This talk, by Marika Sardar , Curator at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, will examine portraits of the monarchs and courtiers of the Deccan Sultanates of Central India, looking […]

Please join in a musical adaptation and interpretation of Kitab-i-Nauras, compositions of poetic verses by Ibrahim Adil Shah II,  accompanied by an illustrated presentation and commentary. Glimpses of Nauraspur is an attempt to recreate and understand the 16th-17th century Adil Shahi court culture that eventually manifested itself in the idea of ‘Nauras’. The program consists […]

SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India Invites You to Celebrate An Exploration of Kolam Painting with Dr. Vijaya Nagarajan, author and professor of Theology and Religious Studies. Kolam patterns honor the goddess, who envelops the home with auspiciousness. It is said, in the symbolic use of rice flour as an artistic medium, […]

SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India invites you to an illustrated talk by ceramic artist and Art journalist, Rahul Kumar. This talk will give an overview of the contemporary ceramics in India, and dive deeper into a few select practices that have propelled the ancient clay tradition into a futuristic art form. […]

SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India Invites You to Join in a Celebration of Krishna, In a Free Webinar Presentation. In this illustrated presentation, scholar Kay Talwar will introduce the history and philosophy of a devotional sect, the Pushtimarg, which inspired a distinctive tradition of paintings in adoration of Krishna. She will […]