Author: Sarbari

Guest Speaks – Show Me The Money by Arundhati Ghosh


Arundhati is the Deputy Director at India Foundation for the Arts. She also independently consults for not-for-profits with over 15 years of experience in the areas of organisation set-up and strategy, communications, resource mobilisation, media relations, donor management, evaluation and programme management. She hates air conditioners and hair products. SHOW ME THE MONEY! I had once heard an art auctioneer smirk at a funding organisation at a party and say, “I don’t believe in philanthropy. If the artist is good enough, the market will find a way to support him. Everything else is a hospital, keeping should-be-dead art on life-support.” I wanted to point out to him that if that was the case we would never have heard of Kafka or seen the wonder of Van Gogh. However, the wine was too tempting and it seemed rather pointless to explain why the arts need funding, free of the market, to someone who thinks that building his own archive and creating a

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the boy who wanted to be a “magic-tian” – part II


The boy, now a young man, took up a job as a clerk with the state government in Kolkata.  Most of his siblings had also settled down in Kolkata by then.  The young man, lets call him P, had given up on his dreams of becoming a magician and a doctor, continued to work as a government employee and passed his spare time mostly in gambling and drinking.   The money left by his father for his and younger sisters education and marriage vanished into the blue with his elder brother’s film making business.