When Man and Nature join their skills...

I love nature and documentaries that make us discover the diversity of our planet.
The French channel France5 uses to broadcast many docs produced by the BBC.
This is how I've found one of the wonders that are (or should I say 'were'?) the result
of a fantastic and useful collaboration between man and environment.
Oncle Google allowed me to learn more about these living root bridges:


AtlasObscura brings together information - about the root bridges of Cherrapunji,
(in the Meghalaya region), Bangladesh, India, - gathered by Bertieinindia, Wythe,
Michelle, Dylan, Nicholas Jackson, Rick, Martofkukuf, Seth Teicher.

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(rocket550)
At the base of India's Meghalaya Plateau, the local tribes have created bridges across
the area's rivers using living tree roots and branches. These bridges last for hundreds
of years (the lifetime of the tree)... More on 'The Living Bridges of Meghalaya' on The Velvet rocket.
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Bolly Be Good... in Toronto !

Toronto hosted last week, June 24-26, the International Indian Film Academy awards, the
Indian version of the Oscars - a three-day festival of dance, music, fashion and movies
culminating in a massive movie awards gala.

[Reuters]
Numerous cultural events, film workshops, and movie screenings have also taken place
across the GreaterTorontoArea in the past week, leading up to Saturday night's festivities.

[Chris Young]

For a street level view of these events, CBCNews.ca assembled a team of citizen bloggers.
They've been submitting photos of star sightings, sending updates, and writing about what
Indian cinema means to them.

LINKS:
* Bollywood film awards set for Toronto
* The India's gritty independent cinema
* The backstory, the dinasties, the Bollywood effect
* 10 essential movies from India
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Four Living Legends of Indian Contemporary Art

Four documentary films, directed by Laurent Brégeat, on four of the founding artists
of Indian contemporary art: M.F. Hussain, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, S.H. Raza.
A Lalit Kala Akademi production of Arts (National Akademi of Arts, New Delhi).
Tomorrow, May 21/2011 at Auditorium INHA, Galerie Colbert
6, rue des Petits Champs / 2, rue Vivienne - 75002 Paris


Four "self-portraits" captured on the spot, where each artist puts his eyes back on his life,
filtering what ultimately remains essential in his art.

Laurent Brégeat reveals the history of the artists' beginnings, their challenges,
their landmarks and highlights their lives, referring friends and events, thoughts
and anecdotes, lessons and influences.
Underpinned by inteviews with art critics, collectors and artists, supported by
unpublished documents, these films - drawing together the historical and sociological context
of these great Indian artists of the post-independence era and showing the journey of a hinge
generation - are essential for the history of Indian and international art.

These films are part of the international symposium of the Research Center on the Far East
of Paris-Sorbonne (CREOP) Heritage of India: research perspectives.
This first series will be followed in 2011 by another set, covering a broad cultural project:
the Archive of Contemporary Indian Art.
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Contacts:
Miss Gunjan Gupta, LKA Library - Phone: +91 11 23009225
Laurent Brégeat : bregeat@gmail.com - Cell: 06 07 50 14 87

Celebrated 'Picasso of India' dies in exile

* M.F. Hussain helped put Indian art on global map but was forced into exile by conservatives.
( Al Jazeera, June 9/2011).

A new Viswanadhan's India movie...

What you can see below is a few images' preview by Nadine and Viswa
shootingt during their Nov. 08 - Feb. 09 trip to India, but they are flying back
to India tomorrow for another video/photo well-stocked hunting.

(Viswa filmography)
May/June 2010 updates for Viswa fans : [click>] "Retour aux Eléments"
will be aired on Arte-TV on May 23 at 11:30 pm and featured at Paris'
Centre Pompidou on June 29/2010, at 7:30 pm.


The Taj Mahal in the mist.


The Taj Mahal.


Bodh Gaya, state of Bihar - Pilgrims.


Bodh Gaya - Pilgrims at the temple.


Kappad - beach.


Machilipatnam, Krishna district - Baba.


1/ Cremations.


2/ Cremations.


3/ Cremations.


Varanasi or Benares. state of Uttar Pradesh.
On the Ganga river.


Varanasi - Bathing in the Ganga river.


Hanuman... ran aground on the beach...
He doesn't look to be able yet to lead an army of monkeys or wathever
else to fight the demon King Ravana.__________________________________________________
©2008/09 Nadine Tarbouriech & Velu Vishwanadhan.
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*** More PPG's posts on VISWANADHAN ***
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Do not forget : 

- the Ivry-sur-Seine Ateliers 2009 will open their doors to visitors in September 
as they did last year and there will be plenty of new things to see...


1. G@tto's 2008 photo
2. from the Mairie d'Ivry site, June 2009.

- the Müller footbridge (passerelle), recently restored, and reopened this year, 
on June 12.


The Müller footbridge connects Ivry's center to Ivry's harbour, spanning
the underlying railways from rue Jules Vanzuppe, just in front of Nadine's
studio and two steps away from Viswa's.

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Viswa and Nadine are back from India !

This is from Nadine, giving some news...

Hello G@tto,
Un petit mot pour te dire que nous sommes enfin de retour à Paris après notre long
périple indien à la recherche d'images pour le nouveau film de Viswa.
Nous avons épuisé 2 voitures, 2 chauffeurs, et 2 techniciens qui nous ont patiemment
accompagné pendant plus de 2 mois, 15000 Kms autour de l'Inde et sans jamais s'arrêter
2 nuits de suite dans la même ville ! Un bien étonnant parcours.
Nous avons traversé les campagnes, arides, brumeuses au petit matin, les lieux de culte
envahis de marchés de pacotilles, les grandes métropoles aspergées par le béton des
flyovers et les carcasses de futurs buidings, les savoureuses côtes de cocotiers du Kérala,
puis finalement découvert que l'Inde moderne globalisée est bel et bien en marche, à sa
façon, dans tous les sens possibles. Un vertige de lieux, de rencontres, de regards croisés...
Et voilà, Paris semble si endormi après tout ça !
Viswa monte son film, encore bouleversé de n'avoir pas pu revoir son pays d'il-y-a trente
ans, ou si peu.
De mon côté j'ai retrouvé en bonne écolière le chemin de l'atelier, tiré quelques images
que je médite en tentant de trouver sous quelle forme elles pourraient faire sens.
Waiting for news...

... and one pic, for the moment :


Fishing in the south.
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(Click on title for Viswa).

Despite a serious Illness curry-related...

... Caro brought some indian music for your pleasure...
Watch and listen !

Veena concert - Fort Cochin.


Violin concert at the Taj Malabar in Fort Cochin.


Singer Santosh in Concert near Aranmula, Kerala.


... click here to see Caro's slideshow.













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Trip to India and Sick of Curry...

... and back home 3 days earlier !

So this seems to be the end of Caro's India magic tour,
shortened by... too many curries.




























But she promised to keep on blogging with their journey's details
... from Bayonne !






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