‘Resonance: Sardar • Navajivan • The Artist’s Eye’ — Art Exhibition Celebrates 150 Years of Sardar Patel and 75 Years of Navajivan Trust
‘Resonance: Sardar • Navajivan • The Artist’s Eye’ — A Tribute to Legacy, Leadership, and Art
- Artists Unite to Honour Sardar Patel and Navajivan’s Legacy Through ‘Resonance’ Exhibition
- A Century of Ideals and Expression: ‘Resonance’ Show Bridges History and Contemporary Art
- From Gandhi’s Press to Patel’s Vision — Navajivan Trust Marks Milestones with a Landmark Art Showcase
- ‘Resonance’ Opens at Navajivan Trust: A Tribute to Leadership, Print, and the Spirit of Modern India
Bilkul Online
Ahmedabad, October 31, 2025:
Marking two historic milestones — the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and 75 years of the Navajivan Trust building on Ashram Road, Ahmedabad — the exhibition ‘Resonance: Sardar • Navajivan • The Artist’s Eye’ opens today at 6:00 pm, inaugurated by noted artist Shri Amit Ambalal. The exhibition will remain open to the public from October 31 to December 15, 2025, between 12 noon and 9 pm.
Presented within the iconic Navajivan Trust campus — inaugurated by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31, 1950, coinciding with his own birth anniversary — the show is a heartfelt homage to both the Iron Man of India and the institution that continues to uphold Gandhian ideals through print and creative expression.
While the Ashram Road building celebrates its 75th year, the story of Navajivan Trust stretches back over a century to 7 September 1919, when Mahatma Gandhi launched the first issue of the Gujarati journal ‘Navajivan’. A decade later, in 1929, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel joined the Trust as a trustee and its first chairperson, a role he fulfilled with deep commitment until his passing in December 1950.
Over the past 106 years, Navajivan has stood as more than a publishing house — it has been a mirror to India’s evolving social, political, and cultural fabric, inspiring generations through its books, journals, and printed works.
At the core of ‘Resonance’ lies a dialogue between history and contemporary expression. The participating artists — Avani Varia, Bharvi Trivedi, Dipti Shukla, Gopal Parmar, Jayesh Shukla, Jigna Gaudana, Bansidhar Khatri, Mahendra Mistry, Milan Desai, Nilesh Suthar, Rakesh Patel, Roma Patel, Ronak Sopariwala, Samvedana Vaissya, and Sumedh Kumar Kishan — explored archival materials and untold narratives around Sardar Patel, Navajivan, and Ahmedabad, engaging with themes of leadership, print culture, and shared values.
Rather than imposing a single interpretation, the process encouraged personal artistic responses — emotional, political, and visual. The result is a richly layered collection of works, spanning mediums from framed visuals to immersive installations, offering visitors a multisensory experience that connects the past with the present.
The exhibition stands as both a tribute and an invitation — a tribute to the visionaries who built modern India, and an invitation to rediscover how their spirit continues to live on in books, buildings, streets, and the hearts of those who imagine and create.
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