India, May 28 -- Discreet daylight streaming through green vines, music percolating through painting. and Delhi fellows soaked in artistic pursuits. Triveni Kala Sangam marks its 75th jubilee this year. It was established in 1950 by Sundari K. Shridharani, who had launched her career as a dancer in the troupe of the legendary Uday Shankar. Its name, meaning the confluence of three streams, is said to have been coined by artist and musicologist Vijay Raghav Rao.

That said, the Triveni Kala Sangam that we know today dates from the 1960s, when the institution was moved from its two-room premises in Connaught Place to its present four-storey locale in the art district of Mandi House, on a road named after the immortal Tansen. Here, the compl...