Bharata’s Beauty Today: Translating Classical Indian Aesthetics and its Modern Applications

Indian aesthetics, as expressions of Indian theories of beauty, express the aesthetic experience as a premeditated, embodied experience and not as an ephemeral sensual response. This essay re-examines those classical points and puts them under discussion with the current issues of embodied cognition, design practice, and cross-cultural creativity. Based on the close readings of primary text, this new scholarship, and three applied vignette (theatre staging, a visual display, and user-centred design), paper provides a provenance-sensitive manner to translate the procedural techniques into the modern practice. It favors deliberate pedagogical and ethical approaches that allow an appreciation of procedural specificity to make feasible accountable innovation.