17-597: Electric Moon is a 1992 Indian film directed by Pradip Krishen and written by Arundhati Roy . The film was produced by Grapevine Media for Channel 4 Television and Bobby Bedi's Kaleidoscope Entertainment and was reviewed at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and the 36th London Film Festival (1992). At the 40th National Film Awards , the film won the award for Best Feature Film in English . Set in an expensive tourist lodge in
34-629: A best-seller in India . Krishen's second book Jungle Trees of Central India , published by Penguin India, was released in 2014. Calico Museum The Calico Museum of Textiles is located in the city of Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat in western India . The museum is managed by the Sarabhai Foundation. The museum was founded in 1949 by the enterprising siblings Gautam Sarabhai and Gira Sarabhai . Ahmedabad at that time had
51-588: A flourishing textile industry . The museum was originally housed at the Calico Mills in the heart of the textile industry. But as the collection grew the museum was shifted to the Sarabhai House in Shahibaug in 1983. The museum was inspired by Ananda Coomaraswamy , who, in conversations with Gautam Sarabhai during the 1940s, suggested the founding of a textile institute in the city of Ahmedabad,
68-405: A historic collection of Indian Fabrics. It is also the centre for design knowledge, resources, research and publication. In addition to this, Gira also designed the building. It was built around a courtyard to facilitate contemporary gatherings and functions. It was populated with traditional facades and other carved wood elements dismantled from old residential Gujrati Houses. By the early fifties
85-556: A major trading centre of the textile industry of the sub-continent since the fifteenth century. In 1949 Gautam and Gira Sarabhai and the great industrial house of Calico acted founded the Calico Museum of Textiles in Ahmedabad, as the specialist museum in India concerned with both the historical and technical study of Indian handicraft and industrial textiles. Gira established and curated the Calico Museum of Textiles which houses
102-515: A naturalist and environmentalist. Pradip Krishen is born in New Delhi in 1949 and educated at Mayo College and St. Stephen's College , then at Balliol College, Oxford . He taught history at Ramjas College of University of Delhi , New Delhi. Before becoming a documentary filmmaker (Krishen made popular science documentaries). Krishen began work on a 21 episode television series intended for Doordarshan called Bargad / The Banyan Tree ,
119-485: A project Krishen was forced to abandon before completion, due to interference from the production house he was working for. Starting in 1995, Krishen began studying trees and spending time in the jungles of Panchmarhi in Madhya Pradesh, with the help of a forester friend. Krishen taught himself field botany and began identifying and photographing Delhi's trees, extensively exploring the city's green habitat. In
136-550: Is an Indian filmmaker, naturalist and environmentalist. He has directed three films, Massey Sahib in 1985, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in 1989 and Electric Moon for Channel 4 , UK in 1991. His films have won significant Indian and international awards, and In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones acquired cult status in the years after it was made. He is married to Arundhati Roy who also acted in his films but they currently live separately from each other. He subsequently gave up filmmaking, and since 1995, has worked as
153-834: The Sunder Nursery in New Delhi. In 2014, Krishen began work on a new gardening initiative at Abha Mahal in Nagaur Fort, Rajasthan. The following year, he took over as Project Director of the gardens of the Calico Museum in Ahmedabad, and most recently, leads a team of horticulturists and landscape architects to restore an extensive set of sand dunes in Jaipur city, Rajasthan. Krishen's book Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide , published by Dorling Kindersley / Penguin Group in 2006, met with popular and critical acclaim, and became
170-405: The 19th century, tie-dyed textiles and religious textiles. The galleries also have exhibits on ritual art and sculpture, temple hangings, miniature paintings, South Indian bronzes, Jain art and sculpture, and furniture and crafts. There are also textile techniques galleries and a library. The museum has played an important role in determining the curriculum taught in the textile designing courses at
187-722: The Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the second, under the editorial direction of Dr Alfred Bühler , fümer Director of the Museum Für Volkerkunde Und Schweizerisches Museum Für Volkskunde, Basel, who conducted a Contemporary Textile Craft Survey of India. Inaugurating the museum in 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru stated, "The early beginnings of civilization are tied up with the manufacture of textiles, and history might well be written with this as
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#1732797353340204-583: The course of his work, Krishen led numerous public "tree-walks" on Sunday mornings and became a keen ecological gardener. Krishen has created "native-plant" gardens in Delhi, west Rajasthan, and Garhwal, and is currently working on a large rewilding scheme at Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park near Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur , Rajasthan. He was briefly associated with the Aga Khan Trust in an eco-initiative in
221-417: The film acquired a cult following. In a 2005 interview, Roy said, "The movie I had in my head and different from the one we shot. I wanted it to have a more anarchic quality, but I didn't know enough about cinema to make that come through on screen." This article related to an Indian film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pradip Krishen Pradip Krishen (born 1949)
238-573: The forests of central India run by former royalty, Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles', the film is a satirical parody on Westerners visiting India, in search for their stereotypical notions of the country, replete with images of former Indian royalty, and relics of the British Raj . In turn the film was a commentary on social pretense and ecology. The issue was previously taken up by the Merchant-Ivory film The Guru (1969), and in time
255-467: The leading motif." And indeed, so well had the Calico Museum of Textiles fulfilled this brief that by 1971 the House of Calico decided that the excellence of the fabric collection and the invaluable research conducted by the publications department were such that the museum should be an independent society. The museum's publications, which have now taken two distinct directions, give some indication of where
272-437: The museum discovered its original intent, encompassed too large an area and concentrated its energies on the vast and vital field of handicraft textiles, devoting less and less time to industrial fabrics. By the second decade of its existence the museum launched an ambitious publications programme. The programme worked on two series, namely Historical Textiles Of India under the editorship of John Irwin (1917-1997) , then keeper of
289-554: The next surge of activity will take place. While the number of publications concerned with historical studies continues and increases, the second direction has resulted in research and publication of studies preoccupied with the technical and scientific examinations of textile processes such as looms, dyeing, printing techniques, etc. The textiles on display include court textiles used by the Mughal and provincial rulers of 15th to 19th centuries. Also on display are regional embroideries of
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