Sandhya Raman is an Indian

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and

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whose focus is on socially responsible designs. Raman is the founder of Desmania Foundation. Sandhya Raman designs costumes for dancers practicing contemporary as well as traditional dance forms.

Education and career

Raman is an alumnus of the

National Institute of Design The National Institutes of Design (NIDs) are a group of autonomous public design universities in India, with the primary institute, founded in 1961, in Ahmedabad, with extension campuses in Gandhinagar and Bengaluru. The other NIDs are loca ...

, ( Ahmedabad) with a specialization in Apparel and Textile Design.

Exhibitions

* Enigmatic East - From Ziro to Infinity at The India Habitat Centre, Delhi on 29 January 2019. * Enchanted Tree - an interactive exhibition celebrating the diverse textiles of India at Kamaldevi Complex, March 2017 *When the Pleats Dance - evolution of four decades of dance costumes at ''The Art Gallery of India International Centre'' *(Un)masked - October 2017 (raised funds for International Medical Health Organization).

Productions

* Goddess Central a dance drama which addressed the issue of female

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. * ''Moonbeam''(1991) choreographed by

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Battery Dance Co. USA. enacted by

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. * ''Songs of Tagore'', choreographed by

. * ''Beauty and Beast'' : ''Bharathakala Natya Academy'' . * ''Padme: Anita Ratnam'' . * ''Interrupted Aditi Mangaldas and Drishtikon Dance Company'' . * ''Pralaya by Sampradaya Canada Lata pada'' . * ''The incomplete Gesture'' : ''Natya Dance Theatre''

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. * ''Anekanta'' :

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and '' Natya Vriksha Dance company'' .

Awards

(Stree)

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from Govt. of India 2008 and ''the Creative Excellence Award'' from

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2008.

References

1967 births Living people Indian costume designers Women artists from Delhi {{India-artist-stub