Carnatic Vocal Duet
By Delhi Sisters – Madhavi Sitaraman and Vaishnavi Sitaraman from Delhi, disciples of Trichur Brothers

At 19:00
Bharatanatyam Recital
By Veena Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Justin McCarthy

Qutb Shahi Heritage Park, Golconda: Conservation & Landscape Restoration

Illustrated lecture by Ratish Nanda, Conservation Architect, India CEO, Aga Khan Trust for Culture who leads inter-disciplinary teams undertaking urban conservation projects in Delhi and Hyderabad

Chair: Dr. Swapna Liddle

The presentation will focus on the decade long conservation effort being undertaken by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) at the 106 acre Qutb Shahi Heritage Park – where in the 16th /17th centuries over 100 monuments were built – mausolea, baolis, funerary mosques, amongst others. Conservation effort has revealed several of the principal structures were set in enclosed garden. With learnings from the Humayun’s Tomb conservation, AKTC has followed a craft based approach to conserve the necropolis
 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

At home, walking (Chalo Sakha Us Des Mein/India)
(114 min; 2019; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Rajula Shah

Recipient of the Best Long Documentary, the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2021

Screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

The film inquires deeply into questions of speed, progress and self-liberation through the act of participating in a centuries-old annual pilgrimage alongside millions of people from different castes, class and genders. It makes a quiet yet powerful statement about slowing down, reassessing our needs over wants, and reconnecting with the originary impulse of being human in a world moving towards total mechanization.

 (Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Charmaine O’Brien who researches and writes about the social and cultural history of food and eating. Internationally recognized for her work on Indian food history and culture, her books include The Penguin Food Guide to India, Recipes from an Urban Village and Flavours of Delhi and a forthcoming book on India’s changing foodways, Routes of Connection: Journeys through India’s contemporary foodscape

Chair: Rajesh Luthra

The talk will draw on Dr. O’Brien’s twenty-five years of experience researching and writing about India’s food and the transformation she witnessed in India’s foodways over that time, exploring how factors such as urbanisation, the changing role of women, globalisation and technology, have affected this change. The key theme of the talk will be the movement of food in India from its preparation and eating ‘inside’ the home to the increasing use of ‘outside’ food: pre-prepared convenience foods and meals, online food delivery, boom in cafes and restaurants, etc.

From Shanties to School: A Silent Movement

By Manimala Roy (Konarak Publishers: 2019)

Discussants: Amb. Reena Pandey, former Ambassador to Armenia; Prof. C.B. Sharma, Professor, School of Education, IGNOU and former Director, NIOS; Prof. Prasannanshu, Professor of English, National Law University, Delhi; and Dr. Manimala Roy, Principal, Basava International School, Delhi and author of the book

Moderator: Dr. Renu Tomar, Assistant Registrar, GGSIPU, Delhi
 

Message in a Bottle: The Lessons of SARS-CoV-2

Speaker: Mr. David Quammen, American author and journalist who has written sixteen books including The Song of the Dodo (1996); The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2006), and The Tangled Tree (2018). His 2012 book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, described the dynamics of viral spillover from wildlife into humans and predicted a coming pandemic, possibly caused by a coronavirus

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

There are three important questions about SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic: 10 Where did it come from? 2) Where is it going? 3) What does it tell us about the way we humans live – and the way we should live – on this planet. Quammen will address these questions, while placing these virus in its broader historical and scientific context
 

People. Place. Practice

A talk by Compartment S4, a multidisciplinary and collaborative design practice co-founded by 8 partners, with studios based in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. Their presentation will highlight participatory and people-centric approaches towards architectural practice -- and how this impacts design thinking across various types and scales of projects.

Followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. 

The ninth in the bi-monthly series structured around dialogues that endeavour to present the role of architecture in contributing positively to society and to culture. Conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, the series, through interactions with practitioners and scholars, intends to engage with a wide variety of people - professionals and lay-persons alike.  

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Coordinated by Prof. Rajiv Ranjan, Shanghai University, China

Sāma/Syama Jataka in China

Speaker: Prof. Li Ling, Institute of Taoism and Religious Culture, Sichuan University, China

Introduction: Prof. Rajiv Ranjan

Chair: Prof. Y.S. Alone, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The story of Sāma/Shyama/Shravan has been known to the Chinese people since about the third century A.D. through the spread of Buddhism. Sāma images appear in China, starting from the far west of China: Xinjiang, where Buddhism first came to China, and heading east to Dunhuang, from the 4th and 5th centuries to the 7th century. The images are very typical and highly recognizable, inheriting a type that has been fixed since Sanchi stupa in the first century B.C. However, around the 7th and 8th centuries, another kind of filial son image appeared in Dunhuang and Sichuan: the image of a son carrying his parents on his shoulders, which was considered to a pagan image and which appeared in the “Spurious scriptures” Bao En Jing. Why is the second type of Sāma considered an image of paganism – the opposite of Buddhism since the eighth century or so?

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Intermezzo (USA) | Click here to watch
(84 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Gregory Ratoff

With Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best

Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard), a famous violinist, returns home from a concert tour and meets Anita (Ingrid Bergman), the woman who teaches his daughter Ann Marie (Ann Todd) piano. Attracted by Anita's youth, Holger asks her to be the accompanist on his next tour, and the two embark on an affair, despite Anita's feelings of guilt. Holger reveals his infidelity to his wife, resolving to spend his life with Anita, but the couple is forced to re-examine their relationship when tragedy strikes.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20wtry