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City As Museum Festival | UNESCO World Heritage Week | KNMA X Tales of City
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art presents ‘City as Museum’, a thoughtfully curated series of guided walks across Delhi, led by experts from various artistic fields. This initiative brings attention to significant areas within Delhi and the National Capital Region that have historically served as cultural and creative hubs, inspiring artists and historians alike. The City as Museum concept is an original vision of the museum’s curatorial team.
Tracing Mahalaya’s Timeless Traditions
The soil, still moist from the recent rains, has awakened the wild, open spaces along the Yamuna River. The delicate white blooms of 'Kaash Phool' (Sugarcane Grass Flowers) now dot the landscape, signaling the arrival of autumn—or as Bengalis call it, "Shorot Ritu"—a prelude to the much-anticipated arrival of Devi Maa Durga.
Funoon-e-Latif ki Dilli
Explore the rich history of the tawaifs and their influential roles in shaping urban culture, and challenging the stereotypes associated with their names. The experience will feature a special walkthrough led by Tokeer Khan from Tales of City and poetry baithak by a well-known Kathak dancer Rani Khanum."
Aai-Bo-Kaate : An Experience of Syncretism
Join us for a specially curated event on the very special day of National Independence Day of India. City As Museum, KNMA collaborates with Tales of City to jointly bring you an enriching experience of witnessing the tradition of Pantang-baazi (Kite flying) in Old-Delhi’s skies celebrating the ethos of freedom and the spirit of syncretism. Kick starting with a session of Daastangoi, we celebrate not just the stories of togetherness but also remember the wounds of Partition through Daastan-e-Fahmida, story of a Urdu shaiyra/ poetess. The event culminates with fireworks against the silhouette of Old Delhi skyline, and setting aflame the air-borne lamps of joy and unity, and truly cherishing the coming together of diversity.
The Qutub Minar Complex – Exploring the Roots of a Composite Culture
Join us for our upcoming walk of the Qutub Minar Complex, part of our ‘City as Museum’ series led by historian and author Swapna Liddle. This walk leads us through one of Delhi’s most important historic sites, its structures spanning several centuries of Delhi’s history. A special focus on the development of forms and motifs, and a discussion of little-known inscriptions, will help trace the contours of the development of a North Indian style of architecture, and its social and political underpinnings.
Monsoon Ramblings Around The Ridge
Come walk with Pradip Krishen and explore the natural world of a dry forest in the monsoon! Delhi's Ridge forest erupts with new life – annuals germinating, lianas spiralling up into the trees, Papeehas calling, jackal pups mewling, termite queens whooshing out of tiny holes like smoke! Pradip has been walking here with his dogs for the last 40 years and is writing a journal-style book about all the fascinating things you can see on the 'Rutputty' Ridge.
CITY OF STARS
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art presents a series of curated walks across the city of Delhi under the banner ‘City as Museum’ led by experts and practitioners from the arts. The series will locate and bring into discourse specific zones of engagement in Delhi and the National Capital Region that have served as a repository of local history and creative inspiration to a community of individual artists.
