CURRICULUM VITAE
Bharat Gupt
Address
PO Box 8518
Ashok Vihar, Delhi 110052 India
home tel: (91) India, (11) Delhi, 2724-1490
mobile +91 98100 77914 and STUDY +91 129- 404-4590
email: bharatgupt@vsnl.com homepage: bharatgupt.com
Degrees
B.A Honors English, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, 1967
M. A. English, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, 1969
M.A. English. University of Toronto, 1971
Ph. D. English, M.S. University of Baroda, 1991
Doctoral Dissertation: "A Comparison of Greek and Indian Dramatic
Theories as Given in the Poetics and the Natyasastra"
Books
Dramatic Concepts Greek and Indian. Delhi: D. K.
Printworld, 1994.
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Natyashastra, Chapter 28: Ancient Scales
of Indian Music. Delhi: Brahaspati
Publications, 1996
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Literary Criticism and Theory (Greek),
Indira Gandhi NationalOpen
University,Delhi, 2001
India: A Cultural Decline or Revival? Delhi: D. K. Print
World. (2008).
Natya Siddhanta: Greek Evam Bharatiya
(in Hindi). (Forthcoming).
Articles
"The Technique of Allusion in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot." In Student's Handbook in
American Literature. Ed. C. D. Narsimhaiah. Ludhiana Kalyani, 1972. 188-97.
"Laxmi Narain Lal ka Abdulla Dewaana (in Hindi)." In Natak Aur Rang Manch. Ed. I.
Madan. Delhi: Lipi Prakashan, 1975. 95-100.
"Ravishena krita Padma Purana main Sangit Carca (in Hindi)." In Sangeet , Hatharasa
karyalaya. May 1981. 15-16.
"Sangit ko Acharya Brihaspati ki den (in Hindi)." In Sangeet. 6 articles. July-December,
1981.
"Origin of Dhruvapada." In Sangeet Nataka, Journal of Sangeet Natak Academy. New
Delhi.
"Music in the Natyasastra." In Journal of the Music Academy, Madras. 56 (1985), 16575; 57 (1986), 172-81; 58 (1987), 91-109; 59 (1988) 57-82; 60 (1989).
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"Valmiki's Ramayana and the Natyasastra." In Sangeet Natak. 81-82 (July-Dec. 1986)
63-76.
"The Date of Natyasastra." Journal of the Oriental Institute of Baroda 36. 1-4 (Sept. 86June 87) 69-86.
"Use of the Dhruva Songs in Ancient Indian Theatre." Journal of the Oriental Institute of
Baroda 37 (March-June 1988) 305-20.
"Classifications on Lokadharmi and Natyadharmi." Sangeet Natak 95. (Jan.-March
1990) 35-44.
"Peace as Theatrical Experience." In Manascarya , Journal of Cultural Sudies, North
Eastern Hill University, Shillong , VOL. II, No. 2&3, 1996 , pp 64-9
"What is Ethnic." The Eastern Anthropologist, 50: 2 .1997, pp 139- 46.
“Religious Plurality in Education.” Globalization and Identity. Editors, Majid Tehraninan
Jeannie Lum. Transaction Publishers, UK/USA. 2006, pp 55-62. and B.
“Laughter and Tears in Classical Indian Theater: Its Theoretical Frame” Dioniso, Indtituto
Nazionale del Dramma Antico. DIONYSOS 2007, number 6 , Journal of National
Institute of Ancient Drama, Italy. pp 338-41.
“Classical Indian Art Theory and its Present Day Worth” Shruti , Delhi, Vol 2, April
2008, pp 58-71
News Paper Articles
"Affinity between Theatres: Comparisons, Parallels, and Common Elements between the
Two Performing Traditions." KATHEMERINI, ATHENS, Weekly Supplement, Sunday,
December 29, 1996.. translated into Greek as "Syngeneies sto theatro : Sykriseis,
parallelies kai koina stoicheia stis dyo Theatrikes paradoseis" KATHEMERINI , EPTA
EMERES, KYRIAKI 29 DEKEMBROU .
"A Requiem for Toilers in Foreign Lands." Times of India, Edit page, 4-2-97
"West Versus the Rest is the New Cold War Rhetoric."Times of India, Edit page, 23-4-97
"Reinstate Art in Modern Education." Times of India , Edit page, 20-6-97
"Of High Flying Swamis and Sensual Sanyasis" Times of India , Edit page, 22-9-97
" When Amphitheatres come to Life , Ancient Greek Theatre in Modern Times" Pioneer,
Delhi, Art Page (FULL), 26-6-97
"Committee Sans Commitment" Pioneer, (Second Opinion), 11-7-97
"Real Estates False Premises" Pioneer, (Second Opinion), 31-7-97
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"Castigate Divide not Jain Report" Pioneer, (Second Opinion), 10-12-97
"The Great White Hope" Pioneer , (Second Opinion) , 20/1/98
"Greece and India : Evolving Ties" Pioneer , World Report, page 8 , 24/1/98
"This is not the Secularism We had Opted For" Pioneer,(Second Opinion), 27/3/98
"Their Only Clue is License Plate" Pioneer , (Second Opinion) , 13/4/98
"Age -Related Problem " Pioneer , (Second Opinion) , 26/5/98
"The Frigid Face of a Language" , Pioneer (Second Opinion), 8/6/98
"Shadow Boxing on Ayodhya", Pioneer (Second Opinion) 19/6/98
"Politics of Compensation , Mandal, Mandir and Women's Bill" Indian Express, Edit
Page, 2-7-97.
"Bring Back the Teacher, Freeing Higher Education." Indian Express, Edit Page, 6-8-97.
"Institutionalized Medievalism, Entrenchment of Caste” Indian Express, Edit Page, 9-997.
"A National Crisis of Faith, After Five Decades of Regression." Indian Express, Edit
Page, 18-12-97.
"Oh for a Whiff of Fresh Air, National Suffocation and Senility" Indian Express, Edit
Page, 13-1-98.
"Lame Duck Legislators: Dangers of Vote Bank Politics" Indian Express, Edit Page, 9-298.
"Dangers of Tokenism : A Bellicose Return" Indian Express, Edit Page, 13.3.98
"Whose Afraid of Sanskrit : Living Outside Heritage " Indian Express, Edit Page ,
20.11.98
"Interfaith Tolerance is not the only Issue : The Pluralism of Dilettantes" Indian Express,
Edit Page 9.2.99
"Ethnicity , a Ploy to Create Puppet Nations" ASIAN AGE , 18.5.99
"Sonia Gandhi : Return of the Native " ASIAN AGE, 3.6.99
Reviewer
Frequent contributor to Journal of Sangeet Natak Academy , Journal of Music Academy
Madras, Indian Musicological Society , Baroda.
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Teaching Experience
1987- 2011: Associate Professor of English literature, College of Vocational Studies,
University of Delhi.
1988- present : Visiting Professor , National School of Drama, New Delhi
1988- 1993 : Lecturer , University Grants Commission Refresher Courses for English
teachers , University of Poona
1973- 87 : Assistant Professor of English , College of Vocational Studies
1972- 73: Assistant Professor in English , Hindu College , University of Delhi
Grants
1993 McLuhan Fellow, McLuhan Program for Culture and Technology, University of
Toronto, Faculty Research Grant, Canadian Ministry of External Affairs through Shastri
Indo Canadian Institute.
1995 Visiting Professor of Indian Theatre to Greece under Bilateral Cultural Exchange
Program between India and Greece.
1995 Travel Grant to travel and lecture at Greek Universities from the Foundation for
Hellenic Culture, Athens.
1995-6 Senior Research Fellow invited by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit
Foundation, Greece, for six months to research on Modern Greek Theatre Productions
of Ancient Greek Plays.
Jury Member
Member of the Jury for the International Onasis Prize for Drama (1995)
Languages
Greek, Sanskrit, Hindi, and English.
Musical Training:
Sitar and Surbahar, trained for eight years under Pandit Uma Shankar Mishra.
Musicology:
Studied ancient Indian musicological texts and modern Indian Music under Acharya K C
Brihaspati and Swami Kripalvananda.
Work in progress
1. Natyasastra, Chapter 17: A Critique of Theatrical Polyglossia
2. Natyasastra, Chapters 28-36 .Translated to Hindi
3. Dibbuk ki Prem Katha. Translated to Hindi from Anskey's Dibbuk
4. Reconstruction of Ancient Greek Plays by Modern Greeks.
5. Co-Editor for Sanskrit-English-Greek Dictionary of Demtrios Galanos, the eighteenth
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century Greek Indologist.
Lecture Tours (Europe and USA)
March - May 1994: Lectured on Greek and Indian dramaturgy, music, religion and
aesthetics at Universities at Athens, Toronto, Berkeley, Hawaii and New York.
May-June, 1995: Lectured in Greece under the bilateral Cultural Exchange Program
between India and Greece on Indian theatre and music at the following places:
1. Dept of Communication, Pantieon University, Athens
2. Dept of Music, University of Athens
3. Hellenic - Indo Society, Athens
4. Dept of Classics, Ioannina University, Ioannina
5. American College of Greece, Athens
6. Creative Theatre Society, Ioannina
7. Institute for Asia Minor Studies, Plaka, Athens
Oct-95- Sept 96: Lectured as Onassis Fellow on theatre, music and Indo-Hellenic
interchanges in culture at the following forums:
1. Dept of Communications, Pantieon University, Athens
2. Dept of Anthropology, University of Aegean, Mytiline, Lesbos
3. Various Cultural and Theatrical Forums in Greece.
4. Lecture and Interview (1 hour) on Greek TV channel Seven-X.
5. International Conference on Musical Theatre at Volos
6. First International Medical Olympiad on Alternate Medicine 96.
Sept-Oct 97 Lectured on invitation at the following places.
1. Centre for Musical Theatre and Municipal Centre, Volos
2. Department of Theatre, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
3. American College of Greece, Deree, Athens.
May -July 98 Lectured on invitation at the following places.
1. Aetopoulio Centre of Demos Halandri, Athens
2. Department of Anthropology, University of Athens,
3. International Conference on Ancient Greek Drama at Delphi
October 99 Lectured on invitation at the following places
1.Centre Madiram, Athens.
2.Department of Theatre, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
3.University of Volos
4.Municipal Conservatory of Music and Dance, Volos:
Sept - Nov 2001 Lectured on invitation at the following places
1.Department of Religion, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
2 Departments of Communication and English, Truman University, Missouri.
3. Students’ Union, Oklahoma State University.
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March 2002 Lectured on invitation at the following places
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1.Toda Institute Conference, Magdalen College, Oxford.
2 Brent Library, Brent London.
3 Department of Political Science, SOAS, London University.
August-Sept 2002 Lectured on invitation at the following places
1.Centre for Ancient Drama Conference, Nafplion
2. Department of Music, University of Athens
June - July 2003 Lectured on invitation at the following places
1. Taught a Graduate Level Summer Course, Department of Theatre.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
2. Toda Institute Conference, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver. Spoke on
Sept - Oct 2003 lectured on invitation at the following places
1 Italian National School for Ancient Drama, Syracusa, ITALY
2.Mediterranean Centre, Syracusa.
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June- July 2004 Lectured on Invitation at the following places.
1 University of Siena, Department of Classical Studies. (9 lectures) ITALY
2. Shantom Centre for Dance and Arts, Athens
Oct 2005 Lectured on invitation at
1.Departent of Religion, University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida (5Lectures)
April-May July 2006 Lectured on Invitation at the following places.
1 University of Siena, Department of Classical Studies. (3 workshops)
2. Shantom Centre for Dance and Arts, Athens
3. European Centre at DELPHI, Greece .
May-June 2008 Lectured on invitation at
1. Seitanidou Centre for Culture and Arts, Athens
Oct 2009 Lectured on invitation at
1. Shantom Centre for Culture and Arts, Athens , spoke on Shakta Tantra
2. Athens University Dept of Music
3.Panteion University, Dept of Communications.
4. World PUBLIC FORUM “DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS” VII Annual Session,
Rhodos. Represented Hinduism .
March – April 2011 Lecture at AAS Conference, Hawaii, presented a critique of Wendy
Doniger’s ‘Hinduism: an Alternate History’.
Oct 2011 Lectured in the Departments of Religion at Queens, McMaster and Carleton
universities under the Year of India 2011 Eminent Lecturer Series facilitated by Indian
High Commission.
May 2012 Lectured at
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1. Shantom Centre for Culture and Arts, Athens . Spoke on ‘Vaishnavism and Avatara’
2. Athens University Dept of Music
3.Panteion University, Dept of Communications.
Major Public Lectures in Delhi
AT INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, NEW DELHI
1. "Ancient Greek and Indian Theatre: Why a Comparison?" 25.2.97
AT INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI
2. “Greek Theatre Today (illustrated by 125 slides)" 29.10.98
3. “Natyashastra: its Present Value" 30.10.98
4. “Music and Theatre" 31.10.98
5. “Understanding Rasa" 1.11.98
The Well Made Play: Theory and Practice Six Sessions
6. “The Play of the Day" 2.4.99
7. “Traditions of the Past: Greek Model" 3.4.99.
8. " Traditions of the Past: Indian Model" 4.4.99
9. " Traditions of the Past: European Realism" 9.4.99
10." Traditions of the Present: Reform and Absurdity" 10.4.99
11” Opening to the Future: Fiction and Dream “11.4.99
13.”Religion and Educational Responsibilities of the State" 23.5.04
14. "India in Cultural Decline or Revival" 24.5.04
15. “Natyashastra; Heritage and Future I” 15.4.05
16. “Natyashastra; Heritage and Future II” 16.4.05
17. “Major Symbols in Indian Art and Literature” 11&12.4.07
18. “Who Can Speak for HINDUISM?” 23.9.07
19. “Art versus Morality” 26.9.07 (telecast several times by the LOKSABHA Television
CHANNEL)
20. “Glimpses of Ancient Greek Amphitheatres”. With 150 slides. 08.12.08.
21. “Right to Choose Religion: Myth or Reality” 07.01.09
AT INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI
1. “BANSURI: Its Spiritual significance in the Venugita of Srimad Bhagvatam”
7.3.04 (on day of Holi)
2. “HINDUISM: Diversity of Worship” cosponsored by ATTIC Delhi. 22.5. 08
3. “Indian Concept of Sacred Food” cosponsored by ATTIC Delhi 09.3.10
Major Public Lectures on Natyashastra
AT MADRAS UNIVERSITY
1. March 9-13, 2009 expounding on Sanskrit text and Abhinavabharati (25 hours).
AT TRIVENI KALA SANGAM, NEW DELHI
1. May 8-13, 2009 expounding on Sanskrit text and Abhinavabharati (10 hours).
AT KALAKSHETRA CHENNAI
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1. Feb 6-10, 2012, expounding on Sanskrit text and Abhinavabharati (25 hours).
Photographic Archives of Greek Amphitheaters and Antiquities
As part of my research material I have made about 2000 photographs of amphitheaters
and antiquities at:
Central Greece: Aegira, Sykion, Korinthos, Oropos, Irodium, Dionysos, Eretria,
Thorikos, Delos, Volos, Delphi.
North Greece: Kassopi, Dodoni, Necropolis, Thessaloniki, Phillipoi,
South Greece: Kriti, Thera, Melos, Sparti, Messini, Megalopolis, Argos, Epidavros,
Korinthos. Rhodos.
ITALY: Syracuse
Major Seminars Directed
1. “Philosophy of Indian Drama”, India International Centre, Delhi. 6-8. April. 2002
sponsored by ICPR.
2. “Philosophy of Indian Music”. At India International Centre Delhi 7-9.Feb..2003
Sponsored by ICPR
3.”Arts and Culture for Indian Resurgence”, at India International Centre, Delhi
sponsored by IIC and Kalaikoodam Center of Arts. August 1-3.08
Research Supervisor
1. Co-supervisor for Doctoral thesis of Mary Perham, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1994,
2. MA thesis of Tim Lightheiser for California Institute, San Francisco. 1996.
Internet Groups Member
Regular Contributor to Professional Groups such as INDOLOGY, Research in South
Asia, Hindu Civilization, Abhinavagupta, International Forum for India’s Heritage, having
contributed around 2000 pages so far since 1998 on Classical Indian texts, music and
religion in international discussions and debates.
Google / Yahoo/ search Pages
More than 25 pages of search result on “Bharat+Gupt” only show my university visits,
lectures, publications, articles, internet publications, reviews, and the debates on
international scholarly lists.
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