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अक्षर संस्कृति (Akshara-Sanskriti) — Letters as Pillars of Culture
This year’s Sulekhan Kala Pradarshani invites us to explore how letters and scripts are not just writing tools — they are powerful carriers of our culture, memories, and traditions. The word “Akshara” means both “letter” and “something that never fades”. “Sanskriti” means “culture or civilization”. Together, Akshara-Sanskriti reminds us that our scripts have shaped how we think, record, remember, and express ourselves over centuries.
In this exhibition, we bring together two worlds:
- Historical scripts and manuscripts from the National Museum’s collection — to show how people used to write and preserve knowledge.
- Contemporary calligraphy artworks created by artists like you — to show how today’s creators are reimagining these scripts in new, artistic ways.
Sulekhan Kala Pradarshani 2025
Where Scripts Become Surfaces of Cultural Memory
- The Sulekhan Kala Pradarshani is not an art exhibition in the conventional sense—it is a curated act of preservation and provocation. In an age where scripts are vanishing from public life, this exhibition insists that scripts are not only for reading—but for seeing, feeling, and remembering.
- It is a space where calligraphy becomes culture, and every stroke becomes a narrative of place, identity, and time. The exhibition brings together artists, typographers, textile designers, and sculptors who work with script not as motif, but as message.
- This is where the visual history of India’s scripts is not archived—but activated.
- Where letters leave the page and enter clay, fabric, wood, pigment, and digital projection.
- And where the act of viewing becomes a public ritual of cultural witness