A webinar series on Different facets of Sankaradeva Studies , organized by Society for Srimanta Sankaradeva was started with the maiden lecture programme by Dr Arshiya Sethi, dance scholar and Fulbright fellow from New Delhi on 19th December 2021. She talked on the theme “Going Global: Sankaradeva and the Living Arts of the Sattras.” The programme was moderated by Dr Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti, author and scholar of Sankari culture. Dr Arshiya Sethi referred to the recognition of Sattriya dance in national level on 15th November, 2000 and spoke about the challenges coming after that in her lecture. She gave special reference to the devotees residing in the Sattras, the Vaishnav monasteries of Assam. The recognition was accompanied by a change in its practising population, a re-gendering of its performers, a change in its location, from sacred to secular, as well as a change in its agenda and content, she said. Flushed with new patronage since 2000, it has developed along diverted aest...
