Welcome and Invocation (Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore)

Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore
Welcome: Manjula Kumar
Director, Tagore Project, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies

Opening Remarks: Anandarup Ray
President, Santiniketan Ashram Sammilani International (SASI)

Invocation - Sanskrit Slokas: Sharmila Roy Pommot
Sharmila Roy Pommot is a Santiniketan-trained singer, composer, choreographer, and interpreter of Tagore's music. She has directed dance dramas based on Tagore in Bengali and French, represented India at international festivals, and collaborated with contemporary dancers and composers of different traditions and cultures, including the Battery Dance Company in New York, Kudsi Ergunar of Turkey, and Annemarie Porras of France. In addition, she has worked on French subtitles for Satyajit Ray's films and has written about Ray's use of music for such publications as Positif, a French cinema journal. She has a wide discography and performs for All India Radio and Indian national television. She is based in Paris.

Ambassador Arun Singh
Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.

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This program was made possible by GENEROUS FINANCIAL AND IN-KIND support from Esha and Anandarup Ray.

LEAD SUPPORT FROM
Dr. Rita and Mr. A.J. Gupta, Saswati and Asok Motayed, Candace J. and Suri Sastri

GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM
Rama and Arun Deva, Manjulika and Hiten Ghosh, Sambhu and Promila Banik, Indu and Girish Jindia , Ram Mukunda (India Globalization Capital Inc.)

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM
Meera and Debdas Ghosal, Amitava and Sanghamitra Dutta, Arun and Ibhana Mukherjee, Rajiv and Neena Shenoy (ORCA TV), Sona Varma and Sujoy Bose, Rina and Subhash Saha, Supriya and Devbrat Dutt, Anand A. Devadas

SPECIAL THANKS TO
The Embassy of India, The Indian Council for Cultural Relations

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Samia Ahmed, Monali Chowdhurie-Aziz, Rama Deva, Manjulika and Hiten Ghosh, Sukanya Mukherji, Esha and Anandarup Ray, Hitabrata Roy, Krishna Roy

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Originally aired: Saturday, May 28, 2011