Dr. Sunita Jain, 62, will work on `Indian Poet-Painters (1900-2000) - A Study'. Dr. Sunita Jain is currently teaching English in IIT Delhi. Dr. Jain has received several honours throughout her carrier.
A prolific writer, Dr. Jain has published poems both in English and Hindi, novels, short story collections, translations and criticism. She has edited several books. Her fellowship study will focus mainly on Rabinder Nath Tagore, Mahadevi Varms, Shamsher and Jagdish Gupt.
Dr. L.M. Singhvi, President, IGNCA Trust was the Chairman of the sub-committee that decided the fellowship this year. The members of the committee were: Shri. M.V. Kamath, Prof. P.V. Krishna Bhat, Prof. Yash Pal, Ms. Sonal Mansingh and Prof. N.R. Shetty, Member Secretary, IGNCA.
Recipients of IGMF Awards in the previous years:
Prof. D.D. Sharma and Prof. S.N. Goswami (2000)
Dr. K.S. Behera and Dr. Nalini M. Thakur (1999),
Dr. Padma M. Sarangapani and Bambang Sunarto from Indonesia (1998),
Prof. K. Ayyappa Panikkar and Ustad Fahimuddin Dagar (1997),
Dr. Dilip Purushotham Chaitre (1996).
IGNCA Scholars in Foreign Universities for Lectures
Two of IGNCA scholars went abroad to give lectures, at the invitation of foreign institutions. Dr. Molly Kaushal was invited by the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University to deliver a series of talks at the Department of Indology and the Department of Ethnology. Dr. Radha Banerjee delivered lectures at the Inner Asian and Atlantic Studies, Harvard University and the Caucasus and Central Asian Studies, University of Berkeley, California in the US.
Dr. Molly Kaushal is trained folkloristics and has conducted extensive field study on the Gaddi communities Himachal Pradesh. She has published several research papers and participated in international seminars. Dr. Kaushal's lecture at the SAI in Heidelburg University were on: 1. Reconstructed Histories and Fluid Identities: The Gaddis and their socio-cultural landscape, 2. Negotiating Spaces: Gender and Empowerment in the Gaddi Society, 3. Symbolism of Marked Spaces and Protection Rituals and 4. Metaphysics and Cosmology of Space.
Dr. Radha Banerjee's academic forte is the Buddhist studies. Her two lectures in the US were on Manichaen and Buddhist Monuments of Xingjiang and Central Asian and Chinese Buddhist Art. University of California has associated Dr. Radha Banerjee in its prestigious project "Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiatives." The main purpose of the project is to do cultural mapping on cross-cultural civilizations. Dr. Banerjee has been assigned the task of setting up a team that would work on East Asia.
