VISTARA The Architecture of India

VISTARA was part of The Festival of India a series of major exhibitions in the 1980s organised by Pupul Jayakar that the Govt of India presented around the world in London New York Moscow Tokyo Berlin and so forth VISTARA presented not only the great monuments of Indian history but also examples of the vernacular habitat that existed alongside and the beliefs and mythic imagery that had generated them both The video is a singlescreen condensation of a 9projector multimedia presentation created by Imtiaz Dharker to articulate the central themes of the exhibition