Eminent artists Paresh Maity and his wife, Jayasri Burman, are Artists In-Residence at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for two weeks, tweets President Pranab Mukherjee.
In July, eminent author
Amitav Ghosh was the writer-in-residence at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for four days. He was accompanied by his wife, Deborah
Baker.
Ghosh is award-winning author and essayist whose
books include:- The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique
Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace,
The Hungry Tide and The Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and
Flood of Fire.
The 'In-Residence' programme in Rashtrapati
Bhavan was launched by the President of India on December 11, 2013 with
the aim of providing writers and artists an opportunity to stay in
Rashtrapati Bhavan and be a part of the life of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The
Programme seeks to provide an environment which will inspire creative
thinking and rejuvenate artistic impulses.It is intended to honour and
recognize eminent and established artists and writers as well as young
upcoming talent from different parts of the country.
The first
person to stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan as part of the programme was
eminent artist and Member of Parliament, Jogen Choudhury. Invitations to
live in-Residence have been also extended to Sculptor Subodh Gupta and
Artist Paresh Maity.
The 'In-Residence' programme now includes
grass root innovators, artists, writers, inspired teachers from Central
Universities, award-winning school teachers from different States and
scholars from IITs, IISERs, IISc-B and NITs. Around 140 persons have
been part of these 'In-Residence' programmes till date.