CMAC was asked by Late Shri Sunil Dutt, the former Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sanghatan to design backdrops and posters for the National Integration Camp, a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Dandi Yatra. View Graphics ...
Journey Towards Freedom: Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Visit to India (1959)
CMAC was invited to design & curate the exhibition Journey Towards Freedom celebrating 50 years to first and only visit of Martin Luther King Jr. to India. Mohandas K. Gandhi, known to the world as the Mahatma or ‘Great Soul’, brought a great gift to the modern world. That gift was the light of...
Hum Sab: Celebrating Cultures of Resistance
Music and poetry have played an important role in raising discussions on issues of social justice, against communalism and towards responsible citizenship. There have been efforts in the past by groups like IPTA to use poetry and music to kindle a spirit of questioning the given order. Sadly this repertoire is now unfamiliar for...
Haman Hai Ishq
“Haman Hain Ishq” (That Love Is All There Is) was a concurrence of arts, music and poetry combined with digital works to revisit ancient values of religious pluralism and harmony in the contemporary age. The painter Haku Shah and the internationally renowned musician Shubha Mudgal, two very well known artists in India, participated in the exhibition-concert Haman Hain...
Framing Obama
CMAC was invited by American Embassy to design an exhibition on the eve of visit of president Barack Obama. The exhibition was mounted at the American Center, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, from November 1st till November 30. Curated by photographer, filmmaker and graphic designer Parthiv Shah, the exhibition, titled U. S. President Barack Obama showed the various sides...
Mere Paas Raho
Mere Paas Raho, an audio CD As part of a centenary tribute to the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, CMAC produced an audio CD called Mere Paas Raho. The CD includes an array of songs composed and performed by Vidya Shah, based on the work of Faiz. Mere Paas Raho was produced in collaboration with the Faiz...
Art as Witness/ Voices of Dignity
Art As Witness Art As Witness was a photo-exhibition curated by Parthiv Shah and jointly conceived by CMAC & Amnesty International, India. The exhibition featured images by eminent photographers from all over the world on the harsh realities of day-to-day life as experienced by ordinary people in South Asian zones; and specifically, of infringes from...
National Workshop on ‘Unorganized Sector and Role of Media’
The unorganized sector plays a vital role in terms of providing employment opportunities to large segment of the working force in the country, and also contributing to the National Product remarkably. According to the NSSO survey (1990-2000), out of total workforce of 397 million, only 28 million workers are employed in the organized sector...
Working In The Mill No More
Published by the Oxford University Press, “Working in the mill no more” tells the story of the rise and decline of Ahmedabad’s 120,000 textile mill workers with more than 200 powerful images and an intense narrative. Photographed and designed by Parthiv Shah, the book has been authored by the eminent scholar on Labor rights...
National Aids Control Organization: HIV Radio Spots
CMAC produced radio spots for the National Aids Control Organization (NACO). The aim of these radio spots was to address and the discrimination against AIDS patients and the stigma around HIV-AIDS. Listen to the radio spots:...