AAW #118

The 118th edition of Ahmedabad Art Weekly is not just guiding you with this week’s most creatively extreme events but is parallelly announcing a very significant leap of faith taken by Creative Yatra. We at this moment officially announce the first edition of the Rhythm of Bharata, an experiential fellowship series to connect connoisseurs from across the globe with the grassroots culture of India. Our first edition titled as ‘Ahmedabad Yatra’ is a curated opportunity for aesthetes and connoisseurs to get a firsthand experience of India’s first World Heritage City.

Creative Yatra is growing. With 118 editions of Ahmedabad Art Weekly, six chapters of Charlotte Art Weekly and our near future initiative of Vancouver Art Weekly, our goal to enhance the cultural literacy amongst citizens and make the globe a much more culturally empathetic place, leaping beyond all diversities is achieving flawlessly.

This week’s AAW is dedicated to Behramji Malabari a poet, publicist, author and social reformer, who fought for causes such as women’s rights and abolishing child marriage. Born in the Sanskari Nagri of Baroda Malabari drafted neumerous volumes of Gujarati poems. His The Indian Muse in English Gaarb caught attention of Alfred Tennyson, Max Muller and Florence Nightingale and various wellknown beings of England. He was the editor of Indian Spectaor daily, Voice of India and East and West monthly.

Illustration : Nilesh Ramani