JMI professor awarded National Lalit Kala Akademi Award

NEW DELHI: A guest faculty of the Jamia Millia Islamia, Mahendra Pratap Dinkar, has been conferred the National Lalit Kala Akademi Award 2023. Dinkar teaches at the department of art education in the faculty of fine arts, Jamia Millia Islamia.

His work ‘Nature Balance 2 Medium: Sculpture' was selected by the jury for the award in the 63rd National Exhibition of Art.

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The award ceremony was held at Kamani Auditorium on August 28. His sculpture is being displayed at the National Exhibition of Arts in the Galleries of Lalit Kala Akademi, Ravendra Bhawan, New Delhi.

Mahendra was a student of the department of sculpture in the faculty of fine arts, JMI. His teachers and colleagues expressed happiness on his achievement.

Najma Akhtar, Vice-Chancellor, JMI congratulated Mahendra for the achievement and wished him good luck for his future endeavours.

While talking about his art work, Mahendra said “As a sculptor, I prepare my plans in this way. I have prepared my work as an aspect of a source of nature balance. Where the whole world is playing with nature, due to which many types of epidemics and disasters are going to affect all of us. I am trying to use the energy of that nature as a message in my work.”