Worked as Personal Secretary to Late
Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale (Parliamentarian, President of International
Vegetarian Society, President - Animal Welfare Board, Founder-Director,
Kalakshetra)
Worked as Personal Secretary to Late
K Sankara Menon (Scholar. Writer and Co-Founder, Kalakshetra)
Fourteen years experience in day
to day office administration, personnel management, budgeting and maintenance
of accounts, organization of meetings, festivals, exhibitions, Audio-Video
Documentation, Compilation and Production of Video films and seminars
etc. as Programme Officer and later as Deputy Secretary of SNA - Dept.
of Culture, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Good working experience in Microsoft
Word, Internet Web page design with Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Pagemaker
and Photoshop, PowerPoint, Paint Shop etc.
Participated in the organization
of Indo-Soviet seminar on music, New Delhi-1988.
Participated in the organization
of Festivals of India abroad-1987-89.
Design/Execution of the first ever
international exhibition of puppets in India on the occasion of India
International Puppetry Festival-1991.
Organized a twenty-day workshop of
modern dance with faculty from American Dance Festival (ADF) on the occasion
of India International Dance Festival-1992.
Organized a three-day festival of
traditional theatre, Paramparik Natyotsava. Designed the stage and outside
decor -1994.
Organized a five-day festival of
classical music at Aurangabad-1995.
Organized a five-day festival of
classical music at Goa-1996.
Audio/Video documentation of performing
arts, Interviews, recordings Computerization of archival material-1986-97.
Designed logos, brochures, stage
sets, publicity etc. for innumerable festivals and programmes, seminars
and workshops.
Artistic Director - Festival of music
and dance on the occasion of International
Conference of Interpol - Delhi 1997.
Artistic Director - Festival of music
and dance on the occasion of International
Conference and exhibition of Terrestrial Broadcasting Engineers. - Delhi-1997
Officer-in-Charge - German Festival
in India SNA Cell. 2000-2001.
Co-ordination of 'Ganatantra Mahotsav'
series and 'Swarnotsav' series (music and dance festivals all over India
including special shows by an ensemble conducted by Pandit Ravi Shankar)
celebrating 50 years of the Republic of India for Sangeet Natak Akademi,
National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, Government of India 2000-2001
Designed and presented 'Expressions'
an evening of choreographic works by Narendra Sharma, Madhavi Mudgal,
Rama Vaidyanathan, Sharon Lowen and Maithreyi Pahari on 31 December 2001.
Organized award presentation ceremony
- Swaralaya Puraskaram - to Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar. February
2002. Also organized award presentation ceremonies of DK Pattammal in
Chennai's Kalakshetra, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan in New Delhi's Kamani Auditorium.
Launched the first exclusive dance
and music magazine of North India - Rasamanjari - on 11 July 2002. Released
by Justice Eradi and Minister for Culture and Tourism, Jagmohan received
the first copy.
Designed, constructed and maintains
websites of fellow artists: Veronique Azan (www.kathakazan.com), Prathibha
Prahlad (www.prathibhaprahlad.com), Rama Vaidyanathan (www.ramavaidyanathan.com),
Anjana Rajan (www.anjanarajan.com) in addition to the first portal on
Indian performing arts (www.artindia.net).
Artistic Director - Monsoon Festival
- http://monsoonfestival.tripod.com - jointly presented by Shriram Bharatiya
Kala Kendra and Art India featuring classical musicians and dancers from
all over India, May-June 2003.
Artistic Director - Spring Festival
- presented by Art India featuring classical musicians and dancers from
all over India, February 2004.
Artistic Director - International
Programmes: Nuits de L'Inde, May 2005. Marseille. France.
Artistic Director - Third edition
of Monsoon Festival 2005. July 2005. New Delhi.
Jury-Member, Sanskriti Awards. (Since
2004).
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