Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra director Shobha Deepak Singh rocks at 80 with her undying passion for Indian arts and relentless promotion of artists
The HinduWhen the students of Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra stage the legendary Ramlila, every year, they have one permanent member in the audience, occupying a seat in the front row. “When you have a child, you don’t think of leaving ever,” she says of her untiring work with the Kendra since 1968, when she was hired as the first manager of the 630-seater Kamani auditorium, a unit of the Bharatiya Kala Kendra Trust. Lifetime Achievement Award Last week, when Ustad Amjad Ali Khan presented her the 2023-Sumitra Charat Ram Lifetime Achievement Award for promotion of Indian arts, and she pushed herself to stand up to acknowledge the adulation of the august audience, the fire in her was unmissable. “I can’t remember a time that I didn’t want to be a costume designer or a make-up artist, or a photographer, dancer or a musician,” chuckles Shobha, having authored three coffee table books with her collection of over 80,000 photographs.
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