AAW #167

Bharat Dabholkar’s comedy play ‘That’s My Girl’ comes to town. Are you wondering about the journalistic side to the film ‘Sanju’? Lots of theatre and literature abound in the coming days. Find out what the city has to offer through our 167th Ahmedabad Art Weekly.  

Monsoon has finally arrived as a balm to the scorching heat of the past few weeks. But the pouring water hasn’t washed out the city’s creativity! The theatre fraternity has brought for us That’s My Girl, a humorous play about a father and daughter, directed by actor Bharat Dabholkar. Fowl also promises a comedy act in theatre, and the stage is also set in town for a religious biographical play on Lord Krishna.

Young artist Kanan is out with her second solo show of art, through an exhibition of abstract forms in monochrome. Meanwhile, in the world of literature, Gujarati poet and playwright Sitanshu Yashaschandra will be speaking. And intellectuals like Prof Kartikeya Bhatt, Jayesh Adhyaru, Utsav Parmar and Ramesh Tanna will be meeting to discuss the film Sanju’s journalistic aspects. Literature lovers of Ahmedabad would not want to miss a discussion on Philip Roth’s book American Pastoral. There’s also a discourse by author Parul Khakkhar to look forward to, at Navjivan Trust.

The inspiration for our 167th Ahmedabad Art Weekly is the man who first began researching Gujarati proverbs and idioms, writer Asharam Dalichand Shah. Born in 1842, Shah’s iconic work Gujarati Kahevat Sangraha was an anthology of Gujarati proverbs, published in 1911. The book contained not only beautifully drafted proverbs, but also their meanings, their applications in sentences/incidents/circumstances, and their origins. His studies also compared Marathi and Hindi proverbs. In 1934, his son Mulchand published the biography Asharam Dalichand Shah ane Temno Samay to bring forth his otherwise hidden life story.