‘Why Runs The Abhisarika' - blends Sanskrit literature with contemporary western science

Ms Priyanka Jain

A visual artist Priyanka Jain and an ancient Indian miniature painting Source: Supplied / Abhijit Pal

An audience-interactive project ‘Why Runs the Abhisarika’ combines some old storytelling methods of picture recitation with new poetic forms. In this interview, Priyanka Jain, a visual artist and Ph.D. candidate from RMIT Melbourne explains how Sanskrit literature’s heroine Abhisarika’s psychosomatic landscape holds truth in a contemporary landscape of social conventions and risk-taking.


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