Dr. Samaresh Report

7 years, 4 months ago by hps in Special Category B

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

Esteemed Director, Kalyan Chakravarty,

We have not read Dr. Samaresh's letter yet but we shall reply to yours with copy to his excellency. We have heard that you are visiting Spain?

 

Since the last letter we have passed through Arrequipa (Hari-krpa) which sits at 3,000 feet in the shadow of two active volcanoes, Cuzco, the ancient capitol of the Inca Empire and after being seated on a replacement airplane we continued on to Bolivia, Cochabamba, from where we now write. The airport in Bolivia is 13,333 feet altitude. The Red Cross is waiting with oxygen. I actually saw one child pass out and being giving oxygen, "If you have hypertension medicine use it".

Back in Lima we hear news from Alejandro that the Ricardo Palma Community Center in the Lima, Miraflores district, has received the prospect of hosting "Art and the Sacred, An Introduction", in September or October 2018 with great enthusiasm. Our organizers are neighbors and childhood classmates of the Directors. It has four state of the art exhibition gallerys. Promises that 40,000 people a week will pass through the gallerys and an excellent performing arts theater.

I have suggested that we can all sign a Letter of Intent while I am back in Lima for Monday and part of Tuesday. Then we proceed back to our USA.

By September the new Ambassador of India should have been installed and we should have some ideas of a budget. We should also have a decision from Marvin Gurvich about his participation with "Faces of the Divine".

While I was in Cusco for the one day we also met with Oscar Natars and his wife Anna who were doing dance workshops there. He was elected Director of the Year in 2015 and we have done about five movies with him. He agreed that the Ricardo Palma Center is a world class tourist center and that the auditorium only housing 150 would be adequate for mounting an good show that could be repeated for five nights.

Art and the Sacred, Sacred Music and then what came up was Drama and the Sacred, but this led us to Dante's Divine Comedy. Last night "Hamlet and Arjuna" scored another knock-out success at the Municipal Art and Cultural Center here in Bolivia, so the Divine Comedy might also be a nice meditation for all of us?

Jiyada nrsmha Das has just arrived with some Coca Tea so we don't have bad stomach reactions to the altitude and then we are off to our evening lecture.

We are scheduled to arrive in the all glorious New Dehli 28th of September. Our first foot in Bharatavarsa. Then we leave for Ujjain on the 2nd or 3rd of October. We are struggling in our inept fashion to always be at your's and Dr. Samaresh's service. Please direct us.

By your mercy we will send news as soon as we get back to USA on the 26th.

Hanumatpresaka Swami

Prof. H. H. Robinson

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