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SUMMARY:Between Word and Image: Reading Ram Kumar
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines the literary and artistic oeuvre of Ram K
 umar\, one of India’s foremost modernist voices\, through an interdiscip
 linary lens that foregrounds his fiction and correspondence. Focusing prim
 arily on his novels and letters\, the presentation traces themes of existe
 ntial solitude\, urban alienation\, and moral ambiguity that permeate his 
 prose\, revealing a deeply introspective engagement with post-independence
  India. His letters—especially those displaced at MAP—offer rare insig
 hts into his philosophical temperament and creative process. These textual
  reflections are then juxtaposed with his abstract paintings\, not as sepa
 rate expressions but as silent extensions of the same emotional and intell
 ectual terrain. \n\nBy connecting word and image\, the lecture proposes a 
 unified reading of Ram Kumar’s work as a sustained meditation on silence
 \, memory\, and the search for meaning.\n\nThis programme is conjunction w
 ith Shape of a Thought: Letters from Ram Kumar
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