Chithravathi Magazine

Ray’s son Sandip Ray, who has done the screen adaptations of many Feluda stories  by Satyajit Ray earlier, said his upcoming movie will be based on the Feluda story ‘Hatyapuri’ Satyajit Ray Feluda, the detective created by none other than legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, is once again making a comeback. Ray’s son Sandip Ray, who has done the screen adaptations of many Feluda stories earlier, said his upcoming movie will be based on the Feluda story ‘Hatyapuri’, the crime thriller set in Puri, one of the major tourist destinations in Orissa. Ray junior said the film would be shot in Puri itself and they are planning to start the shooting in the end of May, to coincide Ray’s birth centenary, and release it for Christmas. “My team and I have already visited Puri and seen the shooting site… I want to finish the shoot as soon as possible,” he said in an interview. Cover design of  Hatyapuri At the same time, he refused to divulge the finer details including the cast and the title ...

Organised by Velammal Knowledge Park, the four-day programme was inaugurated at The Velammal International School, Ponneri on Wednesday  Velammal Art Tour, a unique project by Velammal Knowledge Park (VKP), which is part of Chennai-based educational group Velammal Educational Trust (VET), was inaugurated at the VKP campus in Ponneri on Wednesday. Veteran artist Shri. P Gopinath, VKP’s Academic Director Smt. Geethanjali Sasikumar, and Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Chairman and VKP’s Creative Director Shri. Murali Cheeroth formally inaugurated the programme by lighting the lamp. Addressing the gathering, P Gopinath shared his memory about the formation and evolution Cholamandalam artist village. Those were the days of struggle, and Cholamandalam  helped the artists to establish their identity and sustenance, he said. He also said such initiatives like Art Tour would positively impact education and art. Smt. Geethanjali Sasikumar said how such initiatives bring changes in the educat...

The sprawling campus of The Velammal International School at the Ponneri Campus of Velammal Knowledge Park gets ready to host the inaugural edition of the Velammal Art Tour   Farhad Hussain designing the Art Tour vehicle A campus full of life in all its hues. Art takes wings in the sprawling campus of The Velammal International School (TVIS) at the Ponneri Campus of Velammal Knowledge Park, which is all set to host the Velammal Art Tour, a unique cultural extravaganza organised by Chitravathi Centre for Creativity (CCC), taking art to the children, thus igniting their creative self. As the campus is being decked up to host the Art Tour, conceptualised by eminent artist and  CCC Creative Director Murali Cheeroth, many new things are changing the look and feel of the place. The four-day event to be inaugurated on April 13 to 16, would be an innovative pedagogic bridge connecting art with education as well as the art of learning. When a car becomes an artistic creation An interes...

Gone are the days when education was all about parroting, and the evaluation of the talent of student is not restricted to how much he or she learns by-heart. Yes, learning happens beyond the frameworks of books and classroom, too. In this context, art has a prominent role to play to take the students to the wider world around and its splendor.  Chitravathi Centre for Creativity (CCC) conceived the idea of Velammal Art Tour keeping in mind this change, and it sees art, in all its manifestations, as a pedagogic bridge. This is not a programme to create artists, it aims to unravel the artist within every student and help them use it as a vehicle to learn any subject.  While visualizing this programme CCC had the complete cognitive development of the students in mind, and this way it wanted to shape the overall cultural and educational perspective of a school and achieve the goals in that connection without causing them any burden.  While this is a new initiative, it is also...