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An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

April 13, 2019, marked the 100 years of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre— one of the haunting memories of India’s Freedom struggle days. The history behind the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, its repercussion and untold chronicles of the hundreds of people have been brought together in Delhi for all to witness, to pay homage to the martyrs and understand what role did this day played in the freedom movement. Titled “Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Commemoration Exhibition (1919-2019)”— an extensive show of archival reports, newspapers, installations, audio resources, and photographs detailing the aftermath of the brutal event. It has been put on display by The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust (TAACHT) at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) from April 13th to April 28, 2019. IGNCA has been organizing Baisakhi Cultural Annual Fair but this year they choose to remember the hundreds of people killed when British soldiers opened fire without warning, while they were attending a peaceful meeting, and also celebrating the festival of Baisakhi at the Jallianwala Bagh on 13th April 1919.
The show at the IGNCA opened on Saturday 13th April with a ceremony of music, poems and a moment of silence at 5 pm for the lives lost and destroyed on that fateful day. Installations there recreated the entire horror of April 13, 1919, through an aesthetic representation of what Jallianwala Bagh looked like—with strewn bodies, turbans, bangles and ‘dupattas’ all around on the fateful day, which went on to fuel national consciousness, paving way for India’s freedom later. The well, whipping post, jail, and a ban on cycle are some of the artifacts that reflect the pain and excruciating experiences of those killed on the day of Baisakhi and the events that followed. A web— a symbolic representation of the helplessness of peaceful protestors who were trapped at the site— and recreated audiovisuals against a backdrop of a bullet-ridden wall of the Jallianwala Bagh are bound to leave one with somber thoughts.

Date: 13th April 2019 to 28th April 2019
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Twin Art Gallery I, IGNCA, New Delhi 

Contact:+91 1123388155

Website:http://ignca.gov.in/hi/

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