Listen to great singers, watch renowned performing artists and get inspired by listening to interviews of Mother Teresa, Gandhi and other world leaders at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts here where India's audio-visual cultural heritage is up for exhibit.
"Our idea is to give a rare material to people and give them a taste of what audio-visual cultural heritage is all about. We have sort of an outreach program of the sudio-visual heritage of this country there are nine institutions which are involved in this exhibition," says Dipali Khanna, member secretary IGNCA.
The exhibition has brought together hosts of institutions from the public and private sector like All India Radio, Doordarshan, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Archive of Indian Music, NaadSaagar Archives, Archives & Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, School of Cultural Texts & Records, Jadavpur University and Rupayan Sansthan.
"It's an amazing use of new technology which is available to us. I think this is so important which is being harnessed in this manner to bring together a repository of classical music and dance and so on," Padma Shree Awardee Anjolie Ela Menon told PTI at the inauguration of the exhibition.
Rare audio and visual recording of renowned artists like Bade Ghulam Ali, Zohar Bai of Agra, Bismillah Khan and many others are sheer pleasure to listen to at the exhibition.
"After all musicians like everybody else are mortal they are not going to last forever. It is so wonderful that so many generations ahead will still be able to listen to the music of the great singers and performers. So I think this exhibition is a huge step and I am very glad that IGNCA has been the one to bring this together in such a very impressive manner," says Menon.
