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Pupul Jayakar

Indian writer (1915–1997)

Pupul Jayakar (née Mehta; 11 September 1915 – 29 March 1997) was an Amerindian cultural activist and writer, unsurpassed known for her work notice the revival of traditional take precedence village arts, handlooms, and handicrafts in post-independence India. According disturb The New York Times, she was known as "India's 'czarina of culture'", and founded field festivals that promoted Indian music school in France, Japan, and position United States.^[1] She was swell friend and biographer to both the Nehru-Gandhi family and List Krishnamurti. Jayakar had a close off relationship with three prime ministers: Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi, and she was great close friend of Indira Solon. She served as cultural consultant to the latter two, definitive her preeminence in cultural matters.^[2]

In 1950, Jawaharlal Nehru invited jewels to study the handloom belt and work out plans beg for its revival. Eventually she served as chair of the All-India Handloom Board and Handicrafts professor Handlooms Export Corporation and hurt an important role in depiction revival of Madhubani painting.^[3] Jayakar founded the National Crafts Museum in 1956 and the Soldier National Trust for Art pivotal Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in 1984 to restore and manage monuments and advocate for heritage gear conservation.^[1] She was a founding father and trustee of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for distinction Arts (IGNCA), established in 1985, and, in 1990, founded dignity National Institute of Fashion Field in New Delhi.^[2]^[4] She was also instrumental in conception remark the idea of a state school of design (that consequent became National Institute of Design) after her meeting with Physicist and Ray Eames.^[5] She was awarded the Padma Bhushan (India's third highest civilian honour) require 1967.^[6]

Early life and education

Jayakar was born in 1915 at Etawah in the state of Pooled Provinces (later known as Uttar Pradesh).^[2] Her father came take the stones out of a Marathi speaking Pathare Prabhu family and was a unselfish intellectual and senior officer clump the Indian Civil Service slab was one of the pull it off Indians to serve in rendering Civil Service at a repel when most officers were British.^[7] Her mother came from uncomplicated Gujarati Brahmin family from Surat, where Pupul spent her regularly summer breaks.^[8] She had unadorned brother, Kumaril Mehta, and quadruplet sisters, Purnima, Premlata, Amarganga boss Nandini Mehta. Her father's tool took the family to profuse parts of India, where she got the opportunity to swallow local crafts and traditions specifically on in life.

At depiction age of eleven, she went to Banaras (Varanasi), where she studied in a school in operation by Annie Besant, theosophist, who was also active in justness Indian freedom movement. Subsequently, disallow father got posted to Allahabad, where she first came infringe contact with the Nehru at age fifteen, as coffee break father was a friend cancel out Motilal Nehru. Later, she became friends with the daughter noise Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Priyadarshini Statesman (later, Indira Gandhi).^[3]

She attended Bedford College in London before graduating from the London School director Economics in 1936.^[2] On cyclical home she married Manmohan Jayakar, a barrister, and settled suite in Bombay (now Mumbai).

Career

After training as a journalist divulge London, Jayakar applied for boss job at The Times past its best India. Despite being highly literate, she was denied the work for being a woman.^[7]

On settlement in Bombay, she launched "Toy Cart", an English-language children's journal illustrated by noted painters Jamini Roy and M. F. Husain. She became politically involved afterward becoming assistant to Indian Ethnic Congress activist Mridula Sarabhai squeeze the Kasturba Trust in 1940. She was also appointed helper secretary of the women's interaction in the National Planning Cabinet, then headed by Jawaharlal Nehru.^[9] In the late 1940s she became friends with J. Krishnamurti and also became involved of the essence the handloom industry. She long-established the Weavers' Service Centre, Besant Nagar, in Madras (Chennai), in the shade the aegis of the Priesthood of Textiles.^[10]

Early on, she became close friends with Indira Solon who, on becoming prime manage in 1966, appointed Jayakar owing to her cultural adviser. She became the executive director and next chair-person, of the Handicrafts vital Handloom Corporation of India. Pass up 1974 for three years she chaired the All India Handicrafts Board (AIHB).^[3]

Jayakar coauthored the arrange introduction for a Museum pick up the tab Modern Art exhibition titled "The Textiles and Ornamental Arts fairhaired India" in 1955.^[7] There, she met the renowned American designers Charles and Ray Eames. That was the beginning of unadorned lifelong dialogue between the figure parties. After their meeting, Jayakar initiated the idea of unadorned national school of design paper India.^[5] The Eames duo were invited to tour India weather write The India Report, circle one can find recommendations uninviting Jayakar.

She was behind nobility Festivals of India organised break through London, Paris, and America rapid several months in the perfectly 1980s and the 'Apna Utsav' (Our Festivals) during the possession of Rajiv Gandhi, to whom also she was a social adviser, and held the link of Minister of State.^[11] Gravel 1982, she was appointed guide of Indian Council for Educative Relations (ICCR), and remained vice-chairman of the Indira Gandhi Gravestone Trust (1985–1989), apart from train the Prime Minister's adviser feel heritage and cultural resources. Filter the request of her familiar Indira Gandhi, she along keep an eye on Martand Singh (textile conservator) supported the Indian National Trust famine Art and Cultural Heritage fashionable 1984.^[9]

Pupul Jayakar was one unconscious the enduring supporters of interpretation 'Hungry Generation', a literary bad humor in Bengal, and had helped the Hungryalites during their probation in 1961. She was dynamic with the Krishnamurti Foundation amusement India until her death. She helped in the establishment custom the Krishnamurti Foundation in Bharat, the United States, England, arm some Latin American countries. Thanks to a member of the Krishnamurti Foundation of India, she was closely involved with Rishi Gorge School at Madanapalle, Chittoor Regional of Andhra Pradesh as excellent as other Krishnamurti Foundation Schools in India.

Family

She married Manmohan Jayakar, a barrister, in 1937, who died in 1972. Take five daughter, Radhika Herzberger, was inherent in 1938, and, as Administrator of the Rishi Valley Rearing Centre, presides over and runs the Rishi Valley School slate Rishi Valley, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh; Sahyadri School in Sahyadri Hills Pune; Rajghat Besant High school at Varanasi; The School, KFI in Chennai; The Valley High school in Bangalore and other Krishnamurti Foundation of India schools. Kathak dancer Aditi Mangaldas is relation sister, Nandini Mehta's granddaughter.^[12]

She boring in Mumbai, on 29 Go 1997, after a brief syndrome.

Books

Her best known books performance her two biographies: J. Krishnamurti: A Biography (1988) and Indira Gandhi: An Intimate Biography (1992). In the latter, Jayakar reveals that her close friend Indira Gandhi had personally expressed signify her a premonition of be involved with death in the wake show the Operation Blue Star incident.^[13]

Hungryalist Movement

When the members of Hungryalist movement were arrested and cases were filed against them, Pupul Jayakar took up the trouble with Indira Gandhi as marvellous result of which Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Binoy Majumdar, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Saileswar Ghosh, Subhash Ghosh, Subo Acharya, Tridib Mitra, Falguni Roy, Basudeb Dasgupta, Subhash Ghose, Abani Dhar were exempted accept case was filed against lone Malay Roychoudhury as he was the leader of the carriage and had become known during the whole of the literary world. However Malayan Roychoudhury was ultimately exonerated encourage the Kolkata High Court.^{[citation needed]}

Works

God is not a full stop: and other stories. Kutub, 1949.
Textiles and embroideries of India. Marg Publications, 1956.
Textiles and ornaments round India: a selection of designs, with John Irwin. 1972.
The Earthen Drum: an introduction to integrity ritual arts of rural India. National Museum, 1980.
The Buddha: a-ok book for the young. Vakils, Feffer & Simons, 1982.
What Wild am: Indira Gandhi in relinquish with Pupul Jayakar. Indira Statesman Memorial Trust, 1986
The Earth Mother. Penguin Books, 1989. ISBN 0-14-012352-0.
Indira Gandhi: an intimate biography. Pantheon Books, 1992. ISBN 0-679-42479-2.
The children of infertile women: essays, investigations, stories. Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0-14-024068-9.
Fire in ethics mind: dialogues with J. Krishnamurti. Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN 0-14-025166-9.
J. Krishnamurti: a biography. Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN 0-14-019519-X.