Sushil Kumar Saxena is an Indian musicologist, academic, scholar and the author of several books on music, philosophy and
aesthetics
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed t ...
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He is a former member of the faculty of the
University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
and has served the University Court as a member.
His works include ''Studies in the Metaphysics of Bradley'',
''Hindustan Music and Aesthetics Today'',
''Art and Philosophy: Seven Aestheticians, Croce, Dewey, Collingwood, Santayana, Ducasse Langer, Reid'',
and ''Swinging Syllables Aesthetics of Kathak Dance''
and his lectures have been included in a book, ''Indian Music: Eminent Thinkers on Core Issues ; Discourses by Premlata Sharma, S. K. Saxena and
Kapila Vatsyayan
Kapila Vatsyayan (25 December 1928 – 16 September 2020) was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history. She served as a member of parliament and bureaucrat in India, and also served as the founding direc ...
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He is a recipient of the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship which he received in 2007.
The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...
, in 2008, for his contributions to Indian music.
Selected bibliography
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
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Kapila Vatsyayan
Kapila Vatsyayan (25 December 1928 – 16 September 2020) was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history. She served as a member of parliament and bureaucrat in India, and also served as the founding direc ...
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Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scholars from Delhi
Indian musicologists
20th-century Indian philosophers
21st-century Indian philosophers
Delhi University faculty
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
Living people
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
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