Pathfinders (Mixed media product)  | Released: 19 May 2015

Pathfinders is an invaluable collection that traces the evolution of different art forms in India. Featuring in-depth and visually rich narratives on both the history and the history makers of Indian art forms since 1950, the set contains six dedicated volumes on Music, Visual Arts, Dance, Literature, Theatre and Cinema. Each volume contains an 'introductory piece' describing the evolution of the particular art form, and an 'end piece' which discusses its contemporary relevance. There are exclusive interviews with legends from their fields interspersed with biographies of exponents of a particular art form. The narrative is rich with facts and interesting anecdotes, while a rare collection of photographs add grandiose to the entire set. The volumes in the set include: Volume I: Music Volume II: Visual Arts Volume III: Dance Volume IV: Literature Volume V: Theatre Volume VI: Cinema Table of Contents: Volume I: Music Note-Shashi VyasNote from the Editors-Devina Dutt and Mukta RajadhyakshaForeword-Zakir HussainIntroduction-Aroon TikekarMusic from North India: The Dynamics of Changing Traditions and Trends-Aneesh PradhanCarnatic Music from 19502010: Modern Interpretations of An Ancient Art-Chitravina N. RavikiranKumar Gandharva in Conversation with Ashok VajpeyiPandit Ravi Shankar in Conversation with Satish VyasProfiles Ariyakudi Ramanuja IyengarUstad Bade Gulam Ali KhanPandit Jagannathbua Purohit Semmangudi Srinivasa IyerG.N. BalasubramaniamPannalal GhoshTanjavur BrindaPalaghat T.S. Mani IyerUstad Amir Khan Bismillah KhanM.S. SubbulakshmiUstad AllarakhaD.K. PattammalC.R. VyasAli Akbar KhanBhimsen JoshiT. R. MahalingamTanjore ViswanathanUstad Vilayat KhanPandit JasrajKishori Amonkar Jitendra AbhishekiShivkumar SharmaHariprasad ChaurasiaAmjad Ali KhanZakir HussainHindi Film Music: A Post-Republic Retrospective Hrishikesh DixitGlossaryVolume II: Visual ArtsThe Artists Journey: A Story of Six Decades-Ranjit HoskoteSudhir Patwardhan in Conversation with Ranjit HoskoteNavjot Altaf in Conversation with Nancy AdajaniaProfilesBenode Behari MukherjeeRamkinkar Baij K.C.S. PanikerK.K. HebbarChittaprosad BhattacharyaM.F. HusainK.G. SubramanyanV.S. GaitondeF.N. SouzaTyeb MehtaJ. SwaminathanAkbar PadamseeBhupen KhakharNasreen MohamediGulam Mohammed SheikhVivan SundaramNalini MalaniAnita DubeBose KrishnamachariAtul DodiyaSubodh Gupta The Third Field of Indian Art-Ranjit HoskoteVolume III: DanceA Rich and Fragmented Heritage-Devina Dutt and Prakriti KashyapBirju Maharaj in Conversation with Anjana RajanPadma Subrahmanyam in Conversation with Gowri RamnarayanProfilesUday ShankarGuru Paimkulam Rama ChakyarPandit Shambhu MaharajRukmini Devi ArundaleT. BalasaraswatiMrinalini SarabhaiGuru Bipin Singh and The Jhaveri SistersKelucharan MohapatraChandralekhaVempati Chinna Satyam Kumudini LakhiaKumari KamalaKalamandalam GopiYamini KrishnamurtiSathyabhama and Bharati ShivajiSanjukta PanigrahiSonal MansinghAstad Deboo Pandit Durga LalSucheta Bhide ChapekarForgotten Rhythms-Prakriti KashyapGlossaryVolume IV: LiteratureNegotiating Heterogeneity: Indian Literature after Independence-K. SatchidanandanKrishna Baldev Vaid in conversation with Nirupama DuttDr U. R. Ananthamurthy in conversation with Gowri RamnarayanProfilesFiraq GorakhpuriTarashankar Bandopadhyay Jibanananda DasDr K. Shivarama KaranthVaikkom Mohammad Basheer B.S. Mardhekar Ashapurna DeviAgyeyaUmashankar JoshiIsmat ChughtaiSaadat Hasan Manto Thakazhi Sivasankara PillaiSachi Routray Gajanan Madhav MuktibodhGopalakrishna AdigaSuresh JoshiVinda KarandikarHarbhajan SinghPhanishwarnath RenuKrishna SobtiMahasweta Devi Qurratulain HyderNirmal VermaO.V. VijayanK. Ayyappa PanikarJayakanthanSujatha (S. Rangarajan) Holding a Mirror to Shifting Equations-Nina MartyrisVolume V: TheatreThe Collective Theatres of India: A Celebration of Style and Content-Shanta GokhaleVijaya Mehta in Conversation with Mukta RajadhyakshaGirish Karnad in Conversation with Gowri RamnarayanProfilesSombhu MitraP.L. DeshpandeHabib TanvirEbrahim AlkaziBadal SircarMohan RakeshVijay TendulkarKavalam Narayana PannikarUtpal DuttB.V. KaranthK.V. SubbannaSatyadev Dubey Mahesh ElkunchwarHeisnam Kanhailal Jabbar PatelAmol PalekarUsha GanguliRatan ThiyamSatish AlekarNeelam Mansingh Chowdhury B. JayashreeNaseeruddin ShahMarathi Theatre: A Confluence of Genres-Mukta RajadhyakshaVolume VI: CinemaA Kaleidoscope of Forms-Maithili RaoBenegal in Conversation with Mukta Rajadhyaksha and Devina DuttAparna Sen in Conversation with Devina Dutt and Dr Shoma A. Chatterjee Profiles V. Shantaram Mehboob Khan Guru DuttBimal RoySatyajit RayHrishikesh Mukherjee Mrinal Sen Tapan SinhaK. Balachander Raj KapoorRitwik GhatakVijay AnandG. AravindanGulzarSai ParanjpyeAdoor GopalakrishnanGirish KasaravalliMani Ratnam Saeed MirzaMira NairRituparno GhoshThe Magic of the Movies: The Hindi Film Industry-Deepa Gahlot