13-15 Oct: Symposium on PWA/IPTA Legacy

SAHMAT is organising a three-day seminar on the ‘Legacy and Relevance of the Progressive Cultural Movement in India’, on 13^th, 14^th and 15^th October 2011, at New Delhi. The seminar aims to be both a commemoration and critical assessment of the work done by the Progressive Writers Association (PWA), Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) and other similar organisations that were set up in different parts of the country, and of individuals associated with them, in the decades from the 1930s to the 1950s. Against this background, the seminar will take note of forms of interaction between contemporary politics and cultural practice as they exist today in different fields of the arts and literature, and in different regions of the country.

Venue: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi