Katha, Rasa and Abhinaya|S1|Contemporary Communication and Designthrough Indian Aesthetics Lenses скачать в хорошем качестве

Katha, Rasa and Abhinaya|S1|Contemporary Communication and Designthrough Indian Aesthetics Lenses

9 to 13 February 2026 (7:00pm to 8:00pm) Introduction (From Caves to Studios) Resource Person: Dr. Janardan Ghosh, Storyteller – Scholar – Performer, Visiting Faculty, NSHM – Knowledge Campus, Kolkata Education Officer, Madhusthali Vidyapeeth, Jharkhand, Mentor at NMM, NCTE, Ministry of Education Secretary, VK Pradanam (IKS Division), Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari, WB About the Program: This program Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) at the nexus of performance, communication, and design, advancing the claim that story (kathā) is a method; an epistemic technology that encodes memory, ethics, and action. We ground the syllabus in Bharata Muni’s Nāṭyaśāstra and Abhinavagupta’s Abhinavabhāratī, treating rasa as a theory of affective cognition and intersubjective attunement. From early Vedic narrative practices to contemporary data cultures, we trace “story-power” across media and institutions. Building on Ānandavardhana’s Dhvanyāloka, we read dhvani (suggestion) as a semiotic engine that links aesthetic experience to inference and decision, and we widen the canon through Rūpa Gosvāmin’s Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu to examine how cultivated feeling operates as a social technology of belonging. An IKS lens facilitates the modern discourse: orality as infrastructure (Ong; Goody); ritual and liminality as templates for transition design (Schechner; Turner); and participatory dramaturgy as an ethic of co-creation (Boal). The aim is to situate traditional aesthetics within contemporary discourse, making the classical newly useful while remaining methodologically precise and ethically responsive. Through lectures and video presentations of Kathābhinaya practices, students will be able to translate classical principles into present-day applications. Outcomes: After attending this program, participants shall be able to  Learn the basics of “Story as Method”. They explore a brief history of Narratology and storyperformance (from folk to classical).  Have a theoretical understanding of Rasa as affective cognition (Bharata, Abhinavagupta) and dhvani as semiotic suggestion (Ānandavardhana), and can comprehend stories as knowledge infrastructures (orality/ritual).  Critique and frame Aesthetics to Application. They can cultivate feeling as social technology (Rūpa Gosvāmin), participatory ethics (Boal), and a rasa-informed frame for designing/assessing narratives in contemporary communication and research.  Translate Turner/Schechner/Boal into a 3-step onboarding “quest” (Calm Start to First Win to Invite/Share) with one Rasa target and paired metrics. They list 3C+R guardrails: Context, Credit, Consent + Reciprocity. Understanding the origin of the pattern and co-creation.  Articulate how breath, gaze, pause, mudrā shape attention and memory; they outline a 2-minute “Breath–Beat–Line” protocol for high-stakes starts (viva, demo, meeting) and specify one observable signal (relief breath/eye focus) to watch. They get a feel of Kathābhinaya.