Aishwarya Sultani- An Interview with an Installation Artist (Chitkara University)

                                   Aishwarya Sultania: Multimedia, Installation Artist

Aishwarya Sultania, an All India Young People Award winner of 2001, a yoga enthusiast, an artist and a multimedia expert graced “Toxicity-2020” with her presence which was an alternative art symposium organized by Chitkara School of Art & Philosophy Unbound in the university campus.  My interview with her was an example as to how Aishwarya, looks at herself and life as a whole with respect to art as well. How is your experience at Chitkara University & How would you like to explain “Toxicity 2020” Experience here at the university is very good and also if talking about Toxicity, I feel honored that for us (the artists) an international alternative art symposium is being organized, it gives me immense pleasure to see that artists also get a platform like “Toxicity” to showcase the talents and their perspective of life?   As you are right here, I would like to know how far is Extra-Curricular Activities important, as you yourself are a lot into Yoga & Hockey apart from Art? For me, it’s very important to indulge or participate in sports as, I myself, am addicted to Facebook but every co circular activity helps me to rejuvenate not only from my body but also through Body & Soul. As an artist, if given a situation of you being against the Citizenship Amendment Act, how would you express your Anger on the issue? First of all, I would say that I am not at all against the CAA but if this is the situation, I would like to come out with certain different campaigns in order to let people know and express my anger. For something like, if people wastewater, that is something which gains a momentum of anger in me, for this I would really like to bring out certain activities.  Today’s generation is too much busy into social media without even realizing their actual potential, so what message would you like to give to the youth? As I already told you that even I am addicted to Social Media, but it’s really important as to how you utilize your given resources and not exploit them. Using social media for something productive will truly help you realize your potential.   An artist is perfect at whatever he or she does, and there was a perfect example for the people here in the university. Thanking Aishwarya Sultania, ended with a positive message to the youth and also with a positive presentation of Food Toxicity using her demonstration and installation, the installation was witnessed by many of the college students which in-turn was seen getting the message communicated to them regarding food and its toxic levels and especially the effects of street food on our body and the way it accumulates and effects on the body.

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Life Flows On: Film Review By Shivam Bajaj

Starting in the beautiful Latur district of Uttarakhand, this Tom Alter starter “Life Flows On” produced and directed by Vishaal Nityanand is an exemplary piece of work by the director himself, throwing light on a sensitive topic like “Alzheimers” is not something to be seen very often and not even in a day to day cinema. The film focuses on the problem of Alzheimer's through a feature style but yet will be considered as realism and not realism gives its viewers a clear picture of what the film has to offer. Making it a blend with information and that too with a story to be told along with it is not something every storyteller can do. The film also focuses that even after the figure of Dementia patients to be 3.7 million in India our governments and decision-makers are still not aware of the situation and hence not ready to discuss it in the parliament as well and hence remains un-noticed. This piece of art also focuses that how does the protagonist’s daughter on her own gets herself involved with the system to educate governments and even handles the situation of her mother (later proved to have Alzheimer) too effectively and efficiently.  Apart from discussing Alzheimer's & Dementia, the film also focuses on how does budget allocations affect the awareness creation of any particular problems and how our political systems fail to execute due to lack of knowledge on any particular issue.  While with the memory fluctuations of the protagonist shows that how can such situations be handled efficiently. The way in which the old man was portrayed in the film who was also later proved to be with Alzheimer's added a great level of sensitivity molded in the form of emotions in the film. Society needs more films like this one to throw light on such issues. Overall a perfect blend of emotion knowledge can be complemented to this.

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