Protect Natrani by Declaring the backside of Natrani as a "Silence Zone" & Insulating the space by raising a sound-proof/light-proof wall


Protect Natrani by Declaring the backside of Natrani as a "Silence Zone" & Insulating the space by raising a sound-proof/light-proof wall
The Issue
This is important because Natrani has been operating as a First Class Perfromance Space in the city nurtured mainly by the mother-daughter duo of Ms Mrinalini Sarabhai (wife of Late Dr Vikram sarabhai) and Ms Mallika Sarabhai, besides a number of professionals associated with Darpan Academy which also operates from the same premises.
The place is also an important training house for students from Gujarat pursuing performing arts, and visting artistes from other parts of the country as well as the entire world. Both the in-house artistes and students as well as visiting artistes benefit from the facilities and opportunities for national and international collaborations and cultural exchange aranged here.
The Natrani amphitheatre on its own has been around for 19 years now, acting as a membership-driven Cultural Club with fine sensibilities that provides wholesome entertainment-edutainment for varied audiences of the city based on a continous art-calendar drawn in a collaborative manner.
The place also provides a vital platform for discourse on larger societal issues through its multi-disciplinary approach. The effort is sustained by several other art-groups from time to time
Thus the sensitive nature of live performance-activity at the place deserves the patronage of the citizenry as also the authorities in manner that allows co-existence of development and arts. In fact the place would and should deserve a special mention as a vantage point in Ahmedabad as part of the commentary for for tourists on board River Cruises once these are started by the

The Issue
This is important because Natrani has been operating as a First Class Perfromance Space in the city nurtured mainly by the mother-daughter duo of Ms Mrinalini Sarabhai (wife of Late Dr Vikram sarabhai) and Ms Mallika Sarabhai, besides a number of professionals associated with Darpan Academy which also operates from the same premises.
The place is also an important training house for students from Gujarat pursuing performing arts, and visting artistes from other parts of the country as well as the entire world. Both the in-house artistes and students as well as visiting artistes benefit from the facilities and opportunities for national and international collaborations and cultural exchange aranged here.
The Natrani amphitheatre on its own has been around for 19 years now, acting as a membership-driven Cultural Club with fine sensibilities that provides wholesome entertainment-edutainment for varied audiences of the city based on a continous art-calendar drawn in a collaborative manner.
The place also provides a vital platform for discourse on larger societal issues through its multi-disciplinary approach. The effort is sustained by several other art-groups from time to time
Thus the sensitive nature of live performance-activity at the place deserves the patronage of the citizenry as also the authorities in manner that allows co-existence of development and arts. In fact the place would and should deserve a special mention as a vantage point in Ahmedabad as part of the commentary for for tourists on board River Cruises once these are started by the

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Petition created on 8 March 2014