Artisans begin setting up their stalls and displaying their wares as the Nabanna Mela 2023, organised by the Suresh-Amiya Memorial Trust (SAMT), slowly comes to life at Santiniketan’s Gitanjali Cultural Complex
All photos by Rohit BagadiEntrepreneur Oindrilla Dutt tells the audience about the Nabanna Earth Weekend and the folk art fair in the presence of Subir Chakraborty (secretary, SAMT), Anjum Katyal (curator, Nabanna Earth Weeknd), Shanta Ghosh (managing trustee, SAMT), Rewant Lokesh (business head, Sienna Cafe), Nicolas Facino (director, Alliance Française du Bengale), Jean-Claude Perrier (author and journalist), Iryna Vikyrchak (poet) and Shuli Ghosh (trustee, SAMT)
Chief guest Nicolas Facino addresses the audience on the inaugural day of the Nabanna Earth Weekend
French journalist and author Jean-Claude Perrier talks to Nicolas Facino about the French connection with India through personalities like Rabindranath Tagore, André Gide, Jawaharlal Nehru, André Malraux and Indira Gandhi
Jean-Claude Perrier attends the exhibition of works by local artists that were displayed at the Gitanjali Cultural Complex during the mela
Shanta Ghosh talks to artist Shipra Bhattacharya at the exhibition of local art mounted at the fairgrounds
Glimpses of the Nabanna mela grounds on the first day
Maki Kazumi Baul performs with her fellow minstrels at the open air theatre of the Gitanjali Cultural Complex