Navina Jafa
Dr. Navina Jafa: Awards- 2024 - Winner of Sanatan Sanskriti Award for contribution to Indian dance. 2019- Women Economic Forum: The Exceptional Leaders of Excellence Award; 2017 ‘Woman of Pure Wonder’, Vodafone Foundation. Fulbright Scholar;
Researcher, Writer, Data Analyst on Cultural Perspectives in Geopolitics One Asia at Indian Cultural Heritage Research
Classical Kathak Dancer/Thinker, Heritage Interpreter
Ph.D. on Socio-economic of Cultural Heritage -
Fulbright scholar Smithsonian Centre for Folklife and Cultural Heritage worked on ideas culture in geopolitical dynamics & impact on cultural geographies economies & international relations
Contributes as a writer for The Hindu, Indian Express, The Wire, Swaraj, Quint, Dainik Bhasker.
Contributes as a researcher, strategist, and execution of pilot programs on Heritage Education for Conflict resolution in Kashmir, Indo-Paki, Indo– Sri-Lanka dialogue for WISCOMP under the Dalai Lama Foundation.
Contributed to the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
VP for Centre for New Perspectives - Researches, collects data, launches pilot programs on marginalized creative, traditional knowledge communities on issues concerning women's participation in elections, water, and re-connecting traditional skills to contemporary rural markets.
Feldman Scholar - Heller School Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University Inter-Nation Culture, Geo-political Skill Dialogue, Development Communication to address Elections, Climate Change, Women Empowerment, organic farming, maternity health.
Mapped and created extensive culture skill networks of Asian Countries to develop cultural skills and policies for diplomatic cooperation covering: India, Asia, Indian Ocean Region
Heritage Education - Trained over 1000 School Teachers in Heritage Education for Multidisciplinary learning & conflict resolution in Kashmir, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Delhi-NCR
Innovation in Social Science- Heritage Tourism - Considered one of the most enigmatic curators of Heritage Experiences in India, Asia. Called Gatekeeper of Spectacular by Financial Times she curated, led tours for Smithsonian, Times of India
Book - ‘Performing Heritage: Art of Exhibit Walk, has yielded 1500 jobs in India in tourism
Kathak Indian Classical Dancer, Academic, and Thinker on the Arts
Contact via: www.navinajafa.com Follow Twitter/Insta : @navinajafa
Supervisors: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Dr. Narayani Gupta, Dr. Richard Kurin, and Pandit Birju Maharaj
Address: www.navinajafa.com
Researcher, Writer, Data Analyst on Cultural Perspectives in Geopolitics One Asia at Indian Cultural Heritage Research
Classical Kathak Dancer/Thinker, Heritage Interpreter
Ph.D. on Socio-economic of Cultural Heritage -
Fulbright scholar Smithsonian Centre for Folklife and Cultural Heritage worked on ideas culture in geopolitical dynamics & impact on cultural geographies economies & international relations
Contributes as a writer for The Hindu, Indian Express, The Wire, Swaraj, Quint, Dainik Bhasker.
Contributes as a researcher, strategist, and execution of pilot programs on Heritage Education for Conflict resolution in Kashmir, Indo-Paki, Indo– Sri-Lanka dialogue for WISCOMP under the Dalai Lama Foundation.
Contributed to the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
VP for Centre for New Perspectives - Researches, collects data, launches pilot programs on marginalized creative, traditional knowledge communities on issues concerning women's participation in elections, water, and re-connecting traditional skills to contemporary rural markets.
Feldman Scholar - Heller School Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University Inter-Nation Culture, Geo-political Skill Dialogue, Development Communication to address Elections, Climate Change, Women Empowerment, organic farming, maternity health.
Mapped and created extensive culture skill networks of Asian Countries to develop cultural skills and policies for diplomatic cooperation covering: India, Asia, Indian Ocean Region
Heritage Education - Trained over 1000 School Teachers in Heritage Education for Multidisciplinary learning & conflict resolution in Kashmir, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Delhi-NCR
Innovation in Social Science- Heritage Tourism - Considered one of the most enigmatic curators of Heritage Experiences in India, Asia. Called Gatekeeper of Spectacular by Financial Times she curated, led tours for Smithsonian, Times of India
Book - ‘Performing Heritage: Art of Exhibit Walk, has yielded 1500 jobs in India in tourism
Kathak Indian Classical Dancer, Academic, and Thinker on the Arts
Contact via: www.navinajafa.com Follow Twitter/Insta : @navinajafa
Supervisors: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Dr. Narayani Gupta, Dr. Richard Kurin, and Pandit Birju Maharaj
Address: www.navinajafa.com
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“The Kalbelia Caste represents the intangible heritage skill network that has subcastes such as “the Jogi – Nath singing mystical minstrels, saperas – or the snake-charmers, madaris – the animal trainers ( bears, monkeys, and even pythons), salat or stone workers, and those who work with bamboos. Although most Kalbelia skills are practised by men, the women are traditional bearers of quilting, embroidery, and dance. All three heritage skills are inspired and carry the rhythm so intrinsic to natural environments.” Dr Madan Meena – Project Lead
In absence of Cultural-Tourism holistic policy the domestic Heritage Architecture such as Havelis, Kothis and Mahals need to be conserved. They are seminal documents of historical processes in urban India reflecting lifestyles, intangible heritage knowledge skills and much more. Their holistic conservation issues need to be incorporated in a cultural policy that requires factoring in charters like ‘Urban Development’ and ‘Smart Cities’. A Heritage walk was curated to advocate the urgency to address and support Havelis owners and to acknowledge the dire need to sustain both tangible and intangible within the dynamics of the fast 'developing’ New India. The heritage walk on the theme of Havelis presented these reflections and went beyond to provide a glimpse on the lifestyles of the communities who live or lived in these mansions by referring to the historical Chunnamal Haveli on the Chandni Chowk the main arterial road in Shahjahanabad, Old Delhi.
Much more than politics and security links Balochistan and India” security links Balochistan and India on 13th December, 2017 as an editorial piece in the Indian Express :
- http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-shared-cultural-map-india-balochistan-hinglaj-temple-soft-power-diplomacy-4980003/
While at this point of time the geo-politics surrounding the Indian Ocean has placed the ports of Gwadar and Chabahar in center stage of an engaging chess game of power, the cultural ecology of these ports on land provides an alluring potential of creation of crafting inventive soft diplomatic links in the cultural territory of the ports which are defined by the idea of the Baluch.
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