Shankar Barua, popularly known as 'ShankarBaba', is a multiple media artist, musician, and writer,
old as the mountains,
based in both New Delhi, the capital of India, and Sattal, "The 7 Lakes" area of the Lower Himalay,
in the Kumaon region of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
This website reflects just some aspects of Shankar's life and career, both of which he has always been peripatetic about.
**His archives and records are actually substantially non-existent.**
Over the years, Shankar has been an invited speaker at events associated with eminent institutions such as India International Centre, Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Mumbai and Guwahati, Assam State Museum, British Council, Goethe Institut, Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Niti Aayog (earlier the Planning Commission), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, ARCOmadrid, Korean Arts Council, Total Museum of Contemporary Arts (Seoul), Valencia Festival of Electronic arts, and others.