The ‘extra’ extraordinary collection of photographs — 55 photographs taken from across India — created and commissioned by first time art curator Shripriya Dalmia Thirani saw an unimaginable opening at Delhi’s Bikaner House with over 750 people in attendance — mesmerised by how the show asserts India’s true identity as a secular country through a single binding institution — prayer. It will remind the world of India’s incredible social fabric — a land of many people, many cultures, and many religions coexisting peacefully as one — prayer a common phenomenon among all of them,” explains Shripriya, adding.
The moment we pray is when we are most real, most true, most vulnerable and above all, most private. India is a tapestry of multiple socio-cultural identities, woven beautifully into a single nation, and it officially became a secular nation in 1976 with the incorporation of word ‘secular’ in the preamble through 42nd Amendment of the Constitution.A woman worships Jesus Christ in the Anglo Indian locality of Bow Barracks in Kolkata. He said that prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement.” Thirani who is starting Mumbai’s largest restaurants on the sea by the end of this year, feels that prayer is the greatest institution of human life, much like language. Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who was among dozens of VIPs to open the show said “the photographs are majestic and heart-warming — a show that is bound to be a rage if it travels across the world as India’s true ambassador.”end-ofTags: photography, dalmia thirani, bikaner house.According to Thirani.