Bharat Gupt, a former Associate Professor in English at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist. He was born on on 28 November 1946 in Moradabad (in Uttar Pradesh, India), a small city of mixed Hindu-Muslim population, known for Hindustani classical music and Urdu poetry. His parents moved in the early '50s to Delhi where he went to school and college and studied English, Hindi, Sanskrit and philosophy, spending, however, every summer in the district town. He then spent a year in the US at the end of Counter-Cultural days, in the late '60s; then moved to Canada, where he took a Master's degree from Toronto.
Following talks are scheduled over coming weeks:
Cotton Fabric and the Young
25-Sep 2014 | 6:30 PM
Gulmohar Hall, Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Dharmashastras and Their Present Utility
16-Oct 2014 | 6:30 PM
Gulmohar Hall, Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road, New Delhi
शास्त्र और आधुनिक शिक्षा - एक नई सोच
17-Oct 2014 | 4.00 pm
Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan
Tilak Marg, New Delhi