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Articles by Dr Sudhir Lall
Dr Sudhir Lall is presently a senior faculty in the Kalakosa Division of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He is the Project Director of Bharat Vidya Prayojana, along-term project of the IGNCA, mandated with looking at the discourses on Indic studies from an Indian perspective. He is also the Project Director of the Vedic Heritage Portal; a flagship scheme of theMinistry of Culture, Government of India, nested at the IGNCA and which seeks to create a one-stop digital solution for all the information about the rich and diverse Vedic heritage.
Dr Sudhir Lall is committed to bringing forth a holistic view of Indian artistic traditions. He did a Sanskrit Kavyashastric study of the Vamanamahapurana for his Ph. D. from the University of Delhi. He obtained his M.Phil. degree on an interesting Sanskrit composition titled the Bhojaprabandha, from the same University. Dr Lall is a keen student of religions, cultures and philosophies. He has trained himself in various ancient scripts such as Sarada and Grantha by means of workshops on Manuscriptology and Paleography. He is a distinguished faculty member of the Post Graduate Diploma in Cultural Informatics (PGDCI), an AICTE recognized course, where he takes classes on Indian Culture and the arts.
Dr Lall has been an active member of the UNESCO’s project for Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage of India: The Documentation of Indian Oral Tradition of the Vedas. Under the aegis of this project, he undertook extensive field-surveys of South India, especially Karnataka and Kerala. These helped him identify and document some of the most important chanting traditions of the Vedas, which are on the verge of extinction due to the advent of mechanical modernization. He has successfully supervised ritual documentations of the ‘Pratishthotsava’ and the ‘Adhyayanotsava’ at the Varahasvami temple of Mysore.
Dr Lall has made significant contributions in many Vedic, Agamic, Puranic and Shilpa texts published from the IGNCA, as Managing Editor. He has also been associated with important film projects of IGNCA, namely, “Swachchta Devatva Ek Samaan (2016)”, “Agyaat Shilpi (2016)”, “SwachchParyatana” (2018), “Krantadarshi Guruji (2019)” and “Aka: The Land and It’s People (2020)”. He has also ventured into the field of animation and has co-conceptualized an animation on ‘Adi Shankaracharya (2021)’; a first of its kind project at the IGNCA.
He has authored and edited several books and made numerous illustrated presentations on topics related to Indian intellectual traditions.
He is the first honoree of the prestigious ‘Acharya Chanakya Samman’ instituted by Indian History Awareness and Research (IHAR), Houston for his contributions to the field of Sanskrit ‘tradition and culture. Read more
Dr Sudhir Kumar Lall Kalakosa Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, E-mail: sudhirlall@gmail.com