Nandini Ghosh

This grant was helpful in preparing a convincing research proposal for the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the M S University of Baroda. Subsequently I was engaged in documentation works towards the study. The research experience also gave me the confidence to handle the ambitions and take part in a major art exhibition - Art of Bengal, Past and Present - a joint venture with the Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata. For the exhibition I worked as a researcher, preparing artist profiles and helping with data for the curatorial write-up and also took up lecture programmes in the classrooms of the Rabindra Bharati University Calcutta, and Birla Swarasangam, Calcutta. I received the UGC Junior Fellowship award in March 2001.