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METROSCAPE: LOOKING GLASS
DELHI
Photography
 Pradeep
Bhatia's last exhibition, in 1999, was of the mountainscapes of the
western Himalayas where he and a few of his friends went on a camera expedition.
He never held an exhibition again. About a year later the Hindustan Times
photographer, then 31, was to lose his life in a ghastly terrorist bomb
attack in Srinagar. Now the Pradeep Bhatia Memorial Trust set up by his
wife and friends brings a slice of the talented shutterbug's work, including
some stunning shots of the desolate mountains and their inhabitants as
well as of chaotic Delhi where he lived. On at the Lalit Kala Akademi,
Rabindra Bhavan, till October 11.
Music Concert
 The
Pandit Ram Chatur Mallick Dhrupad Foundation has organised a string
of darbari dhrupad performances on October 5, 2001 at Triveni Kala Sangam.
Artistes include the sonorous Abhay Narayan Mallick, a disciple of Ram
Chatur Mallick, whose powerful devotional style distinguishes him from
other singers. There's also the veena virtuoso Gopal Krishna and vocalist
Acharya Goswami Gokulotsav Ji Maharaj from Indore whose voice covers an
amazing three octaves without compromising on mechanical precision. Call
(011) 554-3533.
DELHI
Sculpture
 Sculpter
Hemi Bawa, 53, unlike many of her metal-loving contemporaries, specialises
in a medium that is certainly more malleable but far more difficult to
handle-glass. At the show on at the India Habitat Centre brought by Vis-a-Vis,
she uses the lustrous properties of the medium, along with other materials,
to represent the five elements-air as a diaphanous cube of glass enfolding
nothing; fire as windows of glass in an iron pillar; ether as a screen
of mystical glass curtains and water as square settings of glass on an
iron canvas. Earth (below) predictably has no glass, only plantations
of wood and aluminum. Call (011) 667-2804.
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