Culture Connect with Japanese

Culture Connect with Japanese

Center for Soft Power had a Culture Connect programme with Japanese nationals in Bangalore.

The Japanese women's association read out three Japanese folk tales and Indian artist Sudhindra sketched the pictures in traditional Indian styles. The Japanese were told about the different art forms in India, and the connection of the folk tales to India's Panchatantra stories.

Some of the art forms included Madhubani which originated in the Mithila region of Bihar as a form of wall art and Gond paintings created with a series of intricately arranged dots and dashes which were developed by the Gondi tribe of central India.