1949-04-27 (age 77)
Professor Emeritus
SPIC MACAY
Kiran Seth (born 1949) is Ex Professor and Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi who has done teaching and research in the field of Operations Research there since 1976. He is most known as the founder of SPIC MACAY (1977), a non-profit organisation which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, folk forms, yoga and meditation, traditional handlooms and handicrafts, cinema classics, and other aspects of Indian culture, amongst youth over the world; doing about 5000 events yearly in about 500 towns in India and about 50 abroad through conventions, baithaks, lecture demonstrations and musical fests.[1][2][3][4]
In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.[5]
Early life and education
His father, Bhojraj Seth, was a mathematician and the first professor at the IIT Kharagpur, established in 1951, while his mother Bhagawati Seth was a homemaker.[1]
Career
Seth started his career working as a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey in 1974, a job he gave up to return to India in 1976 as an Assistant Professor to teach at IIT Delhi, where he has worked ever since. It was at IIT Delhi that he founded SPIC MACAY in 1977.[6][7]
He served as Vice-Chairman of the Governing Council of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune from 2012 to 2014.[8]
SPIC MACAY
Today the movement conducts concerts, lec-dems, talks, yoga workshops, classic film shows, theatre shows and craft workshops in schools and colleges so that young people might be inspired.[9][10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kiran Seth: Without playing a note, he makes music touch the lives of many, Quraishi, Humra. Mint(12 December 2007).
- ↑ Keeping our virasat alive(7 December 2003).
- ↑ From rap to raga. The Hindu(30 October 2003).
- ↑ Discovery of India. The Hindu(28 May 2009).
- ↑ An artistic endeavour. The Hindu(10 October 2014). Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ Young converts to Indian classics(4 June 2004).
- ↑ The education of a Philistine:SPIC MACAY. The Hindu(5 December 2004).
- ↑ URL=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Mirza-aims-at-centre-of-excellence-status-for-FTII/articleshow/8094611.cms
- ↑ Catch 'em young: Kiran Seth, the founder of Spicmacay, has a focused agenda of shaping young minds. The Hindu(23 October 2003).
- ↑ Stay connected with culture. The New Indian Express(5 March 2010).
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