00:00Sita is a human being and her life, she has you know all those things like she also gets
00:05enchanted by seeing a golden deer.
00:19Hi this is Chinky from Outlook and we are with Anjini ji from Bihar Museum.
00:22He is the director and the patron also of various kinds of things and he has been really
00:29pushing the envelope when it comes to the folk arts in Bihar and right now they are
00:34doing this exhibition for Founders Day which is based on Sita.
00:38You know Sita they think like you know Bihar's daughter.
00:42So I just wanted to ask Anjini ji ki aapne yeh exhibition jo kar rahe hain yeh Founders
00:48Day ke liye hain and it's a very unique concept ki poore desh bhar mein log Ram ke baare mein
00:52baat karte hoon aur achanak se Sita ka narrative aur aapne jo art chuna hain wo Madhubani hain,
00:58Anjusha hain, yeh saara folk art hai aur cast ka bhi ek angle tha kyuki wo batari thi Shanti
01:03Devi ki pehle Ramayana unko banane bhi nahi dete the toh it's very interesting toh kya
01:08sochke sir?
01:09Sita ka jo Bihar ka context hai toh hum log chahate the ki Sita ko poore roop se jaane
01:18duniya.
01:19Abhi kya hota tha ki Sita ke baare mein kuch kahaani thi, kuch geet thi aur unke jeevan
01:24ki kuch ghatna thi but somehow it was not being placed on a platform where people can
01:29see holistically kaise wo nature se judi hoi thi, kaise dharti se nikli aur dharti mein
01:35sama gayi, pir kya kya unke jeevan mein hua, wo toh ek model women ka poora depiction hai
01:41but yeh holistically kahin hon nahi pa raha tha toh hum logon ne chaha because this year
01:45we are celebrating our Foundation Day on 7th August so we selected Sita as a theme, Sita
01:50belongs to Bihar, toh wo background tha then humne 193-4 tukde mein program ko kya, ek
01:57mein toh humare jitne ache folk artist hai and all folk forms from Bihar like Mithila
02:04painting, Tikuli, Sujini, Aplik, Manjusa, so we invited all senior national level artists
02:15and those artists we have got Padmasree, so these artists came and we gave them a theme
02:20from the life of Sita and they were supposed to paint or create an art based on that theme
02:27so 30 participants are doing it and luckily out of 30, I think 25 are women, so it is
02:36Sita's life is being depicted by women, which is also very, that is important, ek toh aapne
02:45se keh rahe hain, women are depicting the life of Sita and they are highly empowered,
02:49we spoke to them and their whole version of Sita is also saying that Ram left Sita and
02:53Sita did not go back, Sita actually went back into the earth, so they are doing a lot of
02:58these very powerful, and closeness of Sita with nature, exactly, another aspect is we
03:05are also collecting songs related to Sita right from her childhood, when she is playing
03:12in garden or in nature and life, marriage, everything in jungle and how Ravan took her
03:24to Lanka, all those things are getting depicted, so with these exhibitions, people will know
03:29the whole life of Sita and of course, Sita will include Ram, Lakshman, everything, but
03:37the central model will be Sita, that is one part through art and through music, third
03:44part is there are enough literature on Sita, but again that has to be placed in a context,
03:51it has not been done, so what we are doing is we are inviting 3-4 known, very famous
03:56people who have really researched life of Sita and they have a very good work, some
04:03people have published articles, some people have published books also on Sita, so those
04:09senior people will come, researchers will come and they will talk about Sita, so that
04:15will be to the audience of Bihar, they will know their views and their interpretations,
04:22because like these schedule cast women in Mithila painting, they were doing only using
04:30black and white colour and they were doing only, they were not, they were painting for
04:35forest scenes, gardens, etc, but not Ram and Sita, but so we have given them chance, so
04:42now they are painting, even in Godhna style, they are making the life story of Sita.
04:48And the other interesting part was that they said, Sita we are looking not as a goddess,
04:53but the daughter of Bihar.
04:54Sita is a human being, in our whole approach, Sita is a human being and her life, she has
05:02you know all those things, like she also gets enchanted by seeing a golden deer, because
05:08she sees it's a golden, so she wants it, so you know that type of human, with all human
05:14frailty and you know empowerment, and compassion, compassion everything, so that and it should
05:22be well received, because we are getting very good feedback, and people from neighbouring,
05:27even we are getting enquiries from UP, and you know this Orissa, they also want to come,
05:34so we are inviting.
05:35Have you heard that there is a big temple being built in Sitamari also for Sita?
05:38Yes, Sita, Sita, so that is getting revived, because you know that region, that region
05:43Mithila, Sita is almost everywhere, in the songs, in the rituals, all your marriage rituals,
05:52the symbolic is Ram and Sita, most of the songs are Ram and Sita.
05:57Thank you so much sir.
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