Jitish Kallat's Public Notice 2 | Kennedy Center

Kennedy Center interviews Kallat about his installation of 'Public Notice 2' which recalls the historic speech delivered by Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of the epic Salt March to Dandi in early 1930 as a protest against the salt tax instituted by the British through some 4,500 bone-shaped letters.

On display March 1-20, 2011, at The Kennedy Center, during the "Maximum India" Festival

'Public Notice 2' at Kennedy Center| Jitish Kallat

Indian Contemporary Artist Jitish Kallat's "Public Notice 2" uses bone-shaped letters to depict a Mahatma Ghandi speech and is displayed in the Hall of Nations as part of the Kennedy Center's "Maximum India" exhibit in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2011.

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Sights, sounds and scents of India at Kennedy Center

Before the opening of the three-week Indian festival, the curator, designer and executive chef of Maximum India describe what can be seen and eaten at the Kennedy Center. (Madeline Marshall/The Washington Post)

March 1-20, 2011
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
India is home to a million art forms, both traditional and modern. maximum India brings you perhaps not a million, but many wonderful and unusual aspects of the country's diverse arts and culture, from folkloric to classical and contemporary. It will surprise and delight you with dance, music, and theater performed by India's most acclaimed artists. Film selections from the world's most robust movie industry, featuring both indie and Bollywood films; prize-winning authors reading, debating, conversing, and sharing their insights; exhibitions that astonish and confront; incredible and unimaginable crafts from exquisite collections; jewels that dazzle from the princely era of the Mughals and Maharajas. And, to top it all, feasts of Indian food for the entire three-week period of the festival, prepared by 12 world-class, award-winning Indian chefs, representing all regions of the country.