SATTRIYA RECITAL at 6 pm
By Krishnakshi Kashyap and Group from Guwahati, disciple of Guru Jatin Goswami and Guru Ramkrishna Talukdar

MOHINIATTAM RECITAL at 7 pm
By Malavika Menon from Kerela, disciple of Smt. Vinitha Nedungadi
Accompanists: Kottakkal Madhu on Vocal; Kallekulangara Unnikrishnan on Mridangam ; Suresh Ambadi on Violin
 

IIC Monsoon Festival of Dance

ODISSI RECITAL at 6 pm
By Lipsa Satpathy from Delhi, disciple of Guru Bichitrananda Swain and Guru Aruna Mohanty

KUCHIPUDI RECITAL at 7 pm 
By Moutushi Majumder, Bobby Chakravorty, Washim Raja from Delhi, disciples of Guru Vanashree Rao

"You ain't got a thing, if you don't have that swing . . ." Jazz culture 1900- 1950
Illustrated presentation by Sambudha Sen
 
This lecture will embed jazz (and its progenitor, the blues) in black communities settled in the great American cities especially in New Orleans, New York and Chicago. It will focus on that unique combination of the blue note and swing that is central to both jazz and the blues and show how the radically ambiguous experience of deprivation and joyousness determined a great many characteristics of jazz culture: for example the tension between the self-destructive lifestyles of individual musicians and the incessant collaborations between them and their instruments that drove the evolution of this great musical tradition.
  
Sambudha Sen is professor at Shiv Nadar University where he taught a course called Understanding Jazz

DHRUPAD ARNAV II

Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Abhijeet Sukhdane

Followed by
Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Pushpraj Koshti (surbahar)

DHRUPAD ARNAV II
Dhrupad festival organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation
Curated by Pt. Nirmalya Dey

Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Manoj Solanke (pakhawaj)

Followed by
Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Madhu Bhatt Tailang 

A discussion based on the new book co-edited by Nayanika Mathur and Ravinder Kaur (Penguin)

Panelists: Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Satish Deshpande, University of Delhi; Ravinder Kaur, Copenhagen University; and Nayanika Mathur, Oxford University

Chair: Amita Baviskar, Ashok University

‘The People’ and ‘New India’ are terms that are being invoked freely to both understand and govern India as she enters her 75th year of post-colonial nationhood. Yet, there is little clarity on who these people of India really are, what they do, their desires, histories and attachments to India. Similarly, the phrase ‘New India’ is used far too loosely to explain away a dangerously confounding politics. In this book, some of the most respected scholars of South Asia come together to write about a person or a concept that holds particular sway in the politics of contemporary India. In doing so, they collectively open up an original understanding of what the politics at the heart of New India are – and how best we might come to analyse them.
  
(Collaboration: Ashoka University; and Penguin India)
 

(73 min; 2022; Hindustani/English with English subtitles)
Director: Aditi Desai

The film will be introduced by Aditi Desai

Screening will be followed by a discussion 

This documentary film is based on Aditi Desai’s 50-year long journey as a major collector of vintage Kashmiri and European shawls. Based on her intensive research, fieldwork and knowlge, the film documents the social and cultural history of Kashmir and its legendary Pashmina and patterned Kani shawls; museum quality Kashmir and European shawls from her collection; and also draws attention to the art and craft of the invisible but highly skilled crafts persons, the Najibabadi rafugars

IIC DIAMOND JUBILEE POETRY READINGS – CULTURE AND CREATIVITY – LEGACY AND CHANGE

A YEAR OF POETRY AT IIC
Conceptualised by Gitanjali Surendran

Shahr aur Shaayari: The City in Urdu and Indo-Persian Poetry
An evening of readings, recitations, discussions, and appreciation of a wide range of Urdu and Indo-Persian poetry by the greatest as well as some contemporary poets on the city – cultures of Hindustan – of Delhi, Lucknow, Banaras, Hyderabad and elsewhere. Spanning from the shahr-ashob or the ‘lament or tumult of the city’ traditions to monothematic qat’as, and long poems such as the masnavi on Banaras by Mirza Ghalib

Panelists: Dr. Saif Mahmood, Advocate and author of Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets; Dr. Swapna Liddle, historian, and author of Connaught Place and the Making of New Delhi, Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi, and Delhi: 14 Historic Walks; Dr. Maaz Bin Bilal, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Jindal University and author of Ghazalnama: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu; and translator of Mirza Ghalib’s Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras; and Dr. Mohammad Sayeed, Co-Founder Chiragh-e-Dilli: Writing a City, Co-Curator, Smell Assembly: An Exhibition of Smells of Delhi, and Ethnographer of Delhi

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nita Banerji from Chandigarh

Preview on Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 18:30

Nothing to See Here: Situating the Study of Nagpur Bhosle Architecture within Indian Heritage and History
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Cathleen Cummings, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

When the 1904 Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was passed, the temples of the Bhosle family of Nagpur were little more than a century old. Many were still “living sites”, rather than archaeological monuments no longer in active use. The Act, although making provision for Hindu temples still in worship, was overarchingly concerned with the discovery, classification, and preservation of India’s deep historical past. To the present day, almost all of the eighteenth and early nineteen-century temples and wadas if Nagpur remain neglected: it is not under the protection of any heritage “register”; is unknown even to many Nagpurkars; and has been largely left unstudied by historians of art and architecture. As a case study, this presentation explores some of the key ideas affecting our classifications of “heritage”, “history”, “monument”, and “living”, site in India