SHANTA SERBJEET SINGH:
SHANTA SERBJEET SINGH is the Consultant for UNESCO and the World Culture Forum Alliance ( WCFA), a body paralleling the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum. She is one of the seniormost critics/columnists of the arts in
In recognition of this she was honoured, in 2001, by the conferral of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the premier Govt. run cultural institution for the arts in
She is on the Central Audition Board of Doordarshan, the highest body for grading performing artistes, as well as on the Experts Selection committees of one of the most prestigious Govt. of India bodies involved in culture, the The Indian Council for Cultural relations. She pioneered programmes like “Music in the Park” for the NDMC for sensitizing and adding to the quality of life in
Several well-known books, such as THE FIFTIETH MILESTONE; A FEMININE CRITIQUE, (Published by Sterling Publishers) to mark fifty years of the Republic of India, NANAK, THE GURU (Published by Orient Longmans) and AMERICA & YOU (Published by the United States Information Service have gone into reprints.
Her latest book INDIAN DANCE; THE ULTIMATE METAPHOR (Published by Ravi Kumar, Paris) was released by the former Prime Minister, Shri Atal Behari Vajpeyi in early 2000. And to date is on the bestselling Author’s list of Amazon.com
She has also specialized in films, made documentaries like THE DEVADASI PARAMPARA and CULTURE OF LADAKH as well as composed music for several films and television serials (
She represented
As international Chair for APPAN, since 2000 ( The Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network),a platform for bringing together performing artistes of this entire region set up under the aegis of UNESCO in 2000, she has organized major Conferences-Arts encounters like “Journey to the East” (2000) and “Into the Sacred Waters” (2001), in the Himalayas, “ The Role of Healing In the Arts of Asia” in Seoul in May, 2002 and in January, 2003 the focus was on the “Male/Female Role in the Realm of the Sacred Arts of Asia and its Modern Context,” held on the banks of the Ganges. APPAN’s events have featured in all parts of
SHANTA SERBJEET SINGH is an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Berkeley, California and earlier did her B.A. in English Hons. from
She is married to Serbjeet Singh, the well known