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L Somi Roy
L. SOMI ROY (b. 10 June 1956 in Imphal, Manipur, India) is a cultural conservationist, curator, writer, translator, and booster of polo from the state of Manipur in Northeast India. He is known for his curatorial work in introducing Asian cinema in the US 1 with his work at Asia Society and Roy/Emmons Associates in New York; his international work to introduce the culture of Manipur to the rest of India and internationally with his writing and translations of the work of his mother, the Manipuri writer MK Binodini Devi; his organization of polo tournaments in India in partnership with the United States Polo Association 2 ; and spearheading efforts to preserve the Manipuri Pony. 3

Roy’s curatorial work in the US extended the boundaries of Asian cinema as known in the West, and explored local and regional culture in the age of digital media and technology with exhibitions. Many were notable for their interventionist, representing, and reframing characteristics. 4 As the author of And That Is Why, his 2021 retelling of myths for young adults from Penguin Random House India, Roy introduced Subika art of Manipur to the art world, and framed and defined Manipuri mythology 5 for readers in his native state of Manipur and beyond.

Roy’s translations of MK Binodini Devi included the 2020 Penguin Modern Classic called The Princess and the Political Agent. Roy established Imasi: The Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi Foundation to protect, preserve, and promote the legacy of his mother. His company Huntré! Equine is the promoter of international polo in India through Polo Yatra, a national tour of women’s polo, starting from Imphal, of teams from the US, Great Britain, Argentina, Kenya, Australia and Egypt. 6 His promotion of polo is a part of his ongoing efforts to preserve the endangered Manipuri Pony. 7

Film Work in the US: A film and media curator out of New York. Roy curated Asian and Asian-American film in a year-round program for the Asia Society, with pioneering exhibitions such as the 1 st US Festival of Vietnamese Cinema 8, Persona: Smita Patil in 1988 (and repeated at Lincoln Center in 2010 9 ); Childhood’s End, the first showing of Taiwanese cinema with a retrospective of the filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien in 1987, melding popular and art films of Hong Kong Cinema, Germany in Asia, and the films of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima in 1989; among others. He curated a national survey of the cinema of Indonesia for the Museum of Modern Art in 1990-91. In the 1990s, Roy partnered with Zette Emmons and as Roy/Emmons Associates they presented a retrospective of the Indian filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan; New America, New Americans on immigration for Film at Lincoln Center; a first look at Indian-

American Film and Media 10 for the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1994; and the Tibet Film Festival in the US in 1990-91, working with Richard Gere, Robert Thurman, and Jonas Mekas to showcase Tibet at Anthology Film Archives, Times Square Jumbotron and Asia Society, as some of the venues. Roy was the Executive Director of International Film Seminars, presenter of the annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar for which he also curated Asian and Asian American media in the 1994 seminar with Erik Barnuow and Patricia Zimmerman 11, from 1998-2001 12. Roy was Festival Director of the Gold Coast International Film Festival in New York from 2010-2012; the New York Indian Film Festival from 2008-2012, and the festival co-director of the Asian American International Film Festival for Asian CineVision of New York in 2014 Global Film Work: Roy’s exhibition on Indian-American Media for the Whitney Museum travelled to Mumbai and New Delhi in India. He curated an animation program for the International Women&#39;s Conference in Beijing in 1995 and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. He organized The Culture Documentary seminars in Jakarta and Jogjakarta in association with Japan Foundation Jakarta in 2000. On the novel theme of mountain-to-mountain regional media exchange, Roy organized the Appalachian Regional Media tour of China 13 in the cities of Chengdu, and Kunming for Appalshop of Whitesburg, KY, in 2003. The Appalachian Media Exchange continued in Java, Kalimantan and Sulawesi in Indonesia from 2005 to 2008. He was the NY producer for HD for Tokyo Broadcasting System International in New York.

In his native Manipur, he organized Re:Play: Internesenal Film Kumhei, a three-year film festival on sports and performance from 2010-2012 14. In 2018 he also organized From Page to Screen, a series of screenings on the films and workshops at Manipur University by Aribam Syam Sharma based on the screenplays of MK Binodini Devi, which also traveled to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. Academia and Writing: Roy has taught at the School of Professional Studies of New York University and at Manhattan Marymount College. Roy has written numerous articles on film, theater, polo, photography, design and culture. He has written on film and culture for The Smithsonian; Wide Angle on Indian director Mani Kaul 15, on Merchant Ivory and Satyajit Ray for Artforum; Documentary magazine for the International Documentary Association; on Asian American Cinema for the Black Film Bulletin of British Film Institute 16 ; on 9/11 theater for The Drama Review 17 ; on archival photography for the Alkazi Foundation 18 ; and on design for The

Voice of Fashion. 19 He has given talks at the National Geographic Society, the Asia Society, and the Smithsonian Institution in the US; and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, TISS in Mumbai, and at Manipur University. Presenting Manipur Internationally: Roy has presented the culture of his native Manipur on the international stage. Venues include the United Nations Indigenous People’s Conference in 2007 20 ; What Is Meitei Literature? with Prof. Laishram Sadananda at the New York Public Library 21 ; on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act at Harvard University in 2012 22 ; a Lai Haraoba concert for World Music Institute at Symphony Space in New York in 2007 23 ; a colloquium on Manipur at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in the US in 2007; and on Manipuri manuscripts at the National Committee for Information Resources in Asia (NACIRA) at University of Cambridge and the Royal Asiatic Society in England in 2010 24. Roy worked with the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., and the Newark Museum of Art on Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony to include an exhibit on Manipuri wedding costumery; and with choreographer and performance artist Yoshiko Chuma &amp; The School of Hard Knocks at Japan Society in New York, on Page Out of Order: M2M 25, on a performance on the submerged cultures of Macedonia and Manipur 26. He worked with Alford Manor House, Lincolnshire, UK, in 2014 on exhibits of the wedding costumery of his grandparents Maharaja Churachand Singh and Maharani Dhanamanjuri Devi of Manipur, and tribal costumery and textiles to commemorate the centenary of the Kuki Uprising of World War I. 27 Conservation Work in Manipur: Imasi: The Maharaj Kumari Binodini Devi Foundation was founded by Roy to preserve, protect, and promote the legacy of his mother MK. Binodini Devi. The foundation’s imprint Imasi Publications publishes the literature of Binodini, as she signed her work. Roy is also the translator of her works from the original Manipuri into English. Main article on Imasi Books here. Work in Archiving and Conservation: Roy&#39;s work in conservation include organizing the Myanmar Manipur Conference on the Conservation of Cultural Heritage 28 ; and the revival of MK Binodini Devi&#39;s environmental conservation dance drama Ballad of Loktak (1994/2016) 29 in collaboration with Sangeet Natak Akademi and the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy. Roy initiated and runs The Jalakeli Project as a digital media enterprise to preserve and document a Manipuri royal women&#39;s Hindu choir with historical and born-digital text, with audiovisual archiving at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton 30. In association with the Indira

Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and UNT, he extended about his initiative to organize India&#39;s first workshop on digital archival practice in 2019, with a focus on training digital archivists in North East India. Roy concept for a museum of art for Northe East India resulted in the Maharaja Birendra Kishore Manikya Museum of Art and Cultural Centre for North East India that is under development at the Pushpabanta Palace in Agartala, Tripura. 31 Polo and Pony Preservation: Roy is the principal of Huntré! Equine, a social enterprise working in the nexus of sports and society. He promotes international polo in India, notably annual five editions, starting in 2016, of the Manipur Statehood Day Women&#39;s Polo Tournament that he initiated and conceptualized to be India&#39;s first and only international women&#39;s polo tournament. Its corollary, Polo Yatra, is India&#39;s first national tour of international women&#39;s polo and has travelled to Jaipur 32, Mumbai 33 and Hyderabad 34. Huntré! Equine also created India&#39;s first women&#39;s handicapping and rating system for the country&#39;s players in the international tournament. His spearheading of the preservation of the endangered Manipuri Pony includes the enactment of Manipur’s state pony preservation policy 35, and the declaration of the Manipuri Pony as an Endangered Breed 36. In 2012, he installed a permanent exhibit on Manipuri polo in The Horse and Sports 37 at International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, Ky. and brought about the inclusion of the Manipuri Pony in the museum’s Horse Breeds of the World 38

REFERENCES 1 The Video History Project on L. Somi Roy 2 How is the Elite Game of Polo Linked to Manipur? National Geographic Traveller India 2017 3 Somi Roy’s Journey Towards Setting a Pony Agenda. Manipur Times 2014. 4 Framing Subika Art of Manipuri Manuscripts and Other Local and Global Interventions. CIMA Art Gallery 2022. 5 Podcast on And That is Why: Manipuri Myths Retold. Manjula Narayan, Hindustan Times #HTSmartCast 2022 6 US Polo Assn Announces Sponsorship of 2019 Manipur Statehood Day Women’s Polo Tournament. PR Newswire 2019. 7 L. Somi Roy, A Preserve in Progress, E-Pao 2013. 8 John Charlot, Vietnamese Cinema: First Views. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 9 Restoring Smita Patil’s Legacy. Bangalore Mirror, 2010. 10 David Sterritt, Indian-American Film Series Makes the Rounds in September. Christian Science Monitor 1994. 11 Patricia Zimmerman, Scott McDonald, The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, Indiana University Press 2017. 12 Scott McDonald, Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. Vol 3, University of California Press, 1988-2006 13 L. Somi Roy, From Kentucky to Kumning. International Documentary 2003. 14 Re:Play: Internesenal Film Kumhei at Imphal E-Pao 2012. 15 L. Somi Roy, Mani Kaul at the Flaherty. Wide Angle 2014.

16 L. Somi Roy, Asian American Cinema. Black Film Bulletin 1993. 17 L. Somi Roy, A Window on the World: A Remote Corner of Asia Puts On a Play about 9/11. The Drama Review 2004. 18 L. Somi Roy, What Colour Is The Chair?: The Untold Story of a Photograph. PIX 2018. 19 A Princess-Writer and the Manipuri Aesthetic. The Voice of Fashion 2018. 20 Manipuri Laihui to perform at UN session. OneIndia News 2007. 21 Prof. Laishram Sadananda, What is Meitei Literature? New York Public Library 2006. 22 Symposium on AFSPA, Kennedy School, Harvard University 2012. 23 Christel Stevens, An Experience Beyond Time: Manipuri Laihui at Symphony Space. E-Pao, 2007. 24 Lady Belinda Morse and L. Somi Roy, A Journey to Manipur. Royal Asiatic Society, E-Pao 2008. 25 Deconstruction Project, danceviewtimes, 2008. 26 Border Crossings to Realms of Film and Movement, The New York Times 2008. 27 A Corner of England Cherishes Links with Manipur. Hindustan Times, 2016. 28 Myanmar Manipur Conference on the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Kumhei 2015. 29 In Manipur, It’s Now Ballet Over Bullet. Times of India 2016. 30 The Jalakeli Project: Women’s Oral Histories. University of North Texas Digital Library. 31 Tripura Government Sanctions 40 Crores for Establishing Museum at Pushpabanta Palace. Northeast Today 2022. 32 India International Women’s Polo Tour 2017 Update– Agra and Jaipur. US Polo Association 2017. 33 L. Somi Roy, Polo Diary from Manipur. Jodhpur Polo Magazine 2020. 34 HPRC International Arena Polo Begins Today. World Polo News 35 Manipur State Pony Preservation Policy. Government of Manipur 2015. 36 Manipur: Why the World’s Original Polo Pony is Dying. Indian Express 2018. 37 US Museum Unveils Exhibit on Manipur Polo History. Times of India 2012. 38 Manipuri Pony: Horse Breeds of the World. International

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