President opens tribal arts gallery at Rashtrapati Bhavan as she finishes a year in office

President opens tribal arts gallery at Rashtrapati Bhavan as she finishes a year in office

Subject :History

Section: Art and culture

Concept :

• On a day when India’s first President from the tribal community Droupadi Murmu completed one year in office, the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday got a unique gallery titled ‘Janjatiya Darpan’dedicated to tribal arts, culture and heroes.
• The gallery, which is around 2,200 square feet, has been developed by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, an autonomous institution under the Union Culture Ministry.
• The gallery showcases different themes like unsung tribal freedom fighters, traditional natural resource management practices like Halma, tribal art like Dokra, musical instruments and various scripts like Gunjala Gondi.
• Janjati heroes – Gallery consists of different themes such as unsung tribal freedom fighters, traditional natural resource management practices such as Halma, Dokra art, Gunjala Gondi script, and Warli.
• In addition, the contemporary photographs of various Janjatis of Bharat by Satish Lal Andhekar were also displayed at the gallery.
• Koya Pagide – The gallery has some of the very rare and unique artefacts such as scroll (Koya Pagide) depicting the life history and genealogy of Koya Janjati community from Bhadrachalam.
• Gunjala Gondi Script – The Gunjala Gondi Script along with its detailed history is put on display at the gallery.
• Navachara
• An Artificial Intelligence enabled gallery developed by Rashtrapati Bhavan in collaboration with Intel India.
• This gallery exhibits immersive innovations and indigenous AI solutions created by students and AI coaches.
• It is equipped with six interactive exhibits that provide insights into the grandeur of Rashtrapati Bhavan and ignite a sense of inspiration for democratizing AI skills.
• Sutra-kala Darpan
• It is a Textile Collection which shows the remarkable collection of antique textiles of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• Rashtrapati Bhavan is a repository of distinct textile traditions, ranging from zardozi and gold-embroidered velvets in its carpets, bed and table coverings, to fine muslin and silk drapes.

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

• The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit and dissemination in the field of the arts.
• The IGNCA has a trust (i.e. Board of Trustees), which meets regularly to give general direction about the Centre’s work. The Executive Committee, drawn from among the Trustees, functions under a Chairman.
• It is a research unit under Project Mausam.
• Project ‘Mausam’ is a Ministry of Culture project with Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi as the nodal agency.
• The central themes that hold Project ‘Mausam’ together are those of cultural routes and maritime landscapes that not only linked different parts of the Indian Ocean littoral, but also connected the coastal centres to their hinterlands.
• A project on design and development of a Vedic Heritage Portal was initiated at IGNCA, under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The portal aims to communicate messages enshrined in the Vedas.