EVENT

Experiments with Truth

9th-14th February 2019
Lalit Kala Akademi, Regional Center, Kharavela Nagar, Bhubaneshwar

For post-Gandhian generations of Indians, Gandhian philosophy is an inheritance. To the Mahatma, Truth was "Moksha". There could not have been espoused a more simplistic path towards the profoundness of the concept of liberation of the human soul. Gandhiji worshipped God as Truth, and, following the Gita, which he took as his guiding light, he believed that at the core of the pursuit of Truth was selflessness. Through self-control and selflessness, Mahatma Gandh'is life was an eternal quest for self-liberation, and, this, paradoxically, was his means tu self-realisation. In a world besiegd by intolerance. Gandhian values and principles are of universal relevance, cutting across barriers of communities, states and nations.

Mahatma Gandhi visited Odisha seven times between 1921 and I946, spending a total of sixty nine days in the state. Ila Panda Centre for Arts (1PCA) is delighted to partner with Sarvodaya International Trust, Odisha, to mark "150 Years of the Mahatma" with a spccial group art exhibition by contemporary artists from Odisha, titled, "Experiments with Truth: As a community of key influencers, artists have been conveying social messages down the ages through the language of art, both starkly and subtly. With the hope that this display of artistic expressions of "Experiments with Truth" would help seed the Gandhian dream of a clean India in many hearts and minds, and lead them on the path of cleansing of self. For only clean citizens can carry forward the Mahatma's dream of a Clean India.