media organisations, teamwork with editors, exhibition makers, educators and artists
- tropenmuseum (royal tropical institute amsterdam): guest curator for the exhibition “round and about india” (2007-2017) highlighting the inspiration derived from India in the West, and at the same time, aspects of migration from India that are still relevant for Dutch society (long after colonialism ended in often unexpected, though different ways for both, the colonizers and the colonized)
- tropentheater (royal tropical institute amsterdam): programme advisor
- museum rietberg (city of zurich, switzerland): contributions to catalogues and visitor events
- india festivals (concertgebouw amsterdam & bozar brussels): programme advisor and programme text author
- macmillan-scribners-gale (new york): articles for the encyclopedia of india
- universities lueneburg, goettingen and wuerzburg: international e-learning courses, guest lectures/seminars and publications | testimonials
- bern university of the arts & fachhochschule nordwestschweiz: researcher, guest lecturer (“sam, reflection, gathering together!”) and contributing author (music pedagogy)
- vpro de wandelende tak: contributions to the pathbreaking dutch world music radio programme series hosted by walter slosse
- oxford university press: the oxford illustrated companion to south indian classical music | author | critical acclaim
“To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now … with new methods of production and new patterns of consumption: a lifestyle designed for permanence.” – E.F. Schumacher in Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
volunteer work and other nonprofit initiatives
- tribal cultural heritage in india foundation (“showcasing new initiatives in education”) | background guide for education: ebook under creative commons license
- isme world conferences of music education: contributions to the section “integrated music education” (presenter)
- indian exhibition makers: national museum & sangeet natak akademi new delhi (contributor, author)
- goethe institut: initiator and coordinator of pathbreaking artistic projects and symposia, all in the service of intercultural collaboration (germany- india)
- the small theatre madras (tamil nadu tourism): advisor for theatre architecture, programming and coordination of a collaboration involving indian and international partner institutions (indian institute of technology IIT chennai, school of architecture, indian national trust for cultural heritage, goethe institute)
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services | recommendations and reviews
worldcat.org (publications) | archive.org (ebooks and more)