A Year of Poetry at IIC

Conceptualised by Gitanjali Surendran

Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life

Heather Clark will discuss her award-winning biography of the American writer Sylvia Plath, whose iconic poems changed the course of Anglo-American poetry. Clark will discuss Plath's poetry and fiction, her literary legacy, and the challenges of writing Plath's biography. 

Chair and Discussant: Anupama Raju, novelist and poet

Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, the winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism, and the London Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography. It was a 2021 New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year. Clark is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. 

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Parthiv Shah, photographer, filmmaker, graphic designer will speak on Haku Shah (1934-2019), artist, cultural anthropologist, teacher

Haku Shah was an eminent painter, cultural anthropologist, teacher, Gandhian, and author of Indian folk and tribal art as well as many children's books. He was associated with the National Institute of Design right from its inception in the early 1960s. He also taught at the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad for several years and was Regent Professor at the University of California, Davis.

Haku Shah conducted art and design workshops and lectured across the world and was invited by renowned Art historian, Dr. Stella Kramrisch in 1967 to curate the seminal exhibition, “Unknown India” which travelled to the USA. He established a tribal museum at the Gujarat Vidyapeeth in Ahmedabad, a university established by Mahatma Gandhi. He has exhibited his art in India and across the world. He was a recipient of several honours including the Padma Shri, the Kala Shiromani, the Nehru Fellowship, the Rockefeller Fellowship, and the Kala Ratna for his contribution to art. Haku Shah was Chairman and founder trustee of Bhooma, LokShilpa Sansthan, Ahmedabad, the city where he lived and worked.

Parthiv Shah is the Founder-Director for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC) and is a photographer, filmmaker and graphic designer

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/82690258955

Meeting ID: 826 9025 8955

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Arts)

HER VOICE:Celebrating Surviving Trail Blazers of the Seventies Women’s Movement

An evening of remembrance of those early challenges, achievements and regrets as the few survivors of those early times converse

With Devaki Jain, eminent development economist and Founder, Indian Institute of Social Studies; Mohini Giri, former Chair, National Commission of Women; Kumud Sharma, Chair, Centre for Women’s Development Studies; and Suman  Krishan Kant, Founder President, Mahila Dakshita Samiti and Ms Devika Singh, Co-Founder, Mobile Creches

Participant and Moderator: Rami Chhabra, Pioneer Woman Journalist and Columnist on Women’s Issues and Founder-President, Streebal

Introduction and Felicitation: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

India-China Relations: Dealing with Asymmetry

Speaker: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC
 
Moderator of the series: Suhas Borker
Introduction: Vinay Kumar, Secretary General, Press Club of India (PCI)
 
The series of Conversations with Media is jointly organised by IIC and PCI; and is hosted by them alternately every month
 

Pandhari ke Rang (India)
(36 min; Hindi/Marathi with English subtitles)
Directors: Sachine Shirke and Pankaj Sharma

A colourful documentary, covering the equally colourful career of legendary makeup artist in Hindi cinema, Pandhari Juker popularly known as "Pandhari Dada". The documentary traces the creative journey of Pandhari Dada, in the much ignored art of "Make-up"

Bhovra (India)
(45 min; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Sachin Shirke and Pankaj Sharma

Based on G.A. Kulkarni’s Sahitya Akademi winning book “Kajalmaya”. Story of a tender relationship between middle-class family members, based in the rural Konkan part of Maharashtra. 

Producer: Chandrasheela Arts 

The Struggle and the Promise: Restoring India’s Potential

By Naushad Forbes (HarperBusiness: 2022)

Discussants: Dr. V. Ananta Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India; Shri Dammu Ravi, IFS, Secretary, Economic Relations, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt, of India; Shri Tarun Das, Chairman, Sasakawa India Leprosy Foundation and former Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry; and Dr. Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman, Forbes Marshall, former President, Confederation of Indian Industry and author of the book

Moderator: Dr. Rakesh Mohan, President and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic progress (CSEP) and former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Closing Ceremony

Chief Guest: Dr. S. Jaishankar, Hon’ble Minister for External Affairs, Govt. of India

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Followed by

Peace Notes

Concert presented by South Asian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Alvin Arumugam

Introduction: Amb. Nirupama Menon Rao, Founder-Trustee, South Asian Symphony Foundation

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Myanmar Today two Years After the Military Coup

Panelists: Gen. M. M. Naravane, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM former Chief of the Army Staff; Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Ambassador of India to Myanmar; and Dr. Udai Bhanu Singh, strategic analyst and formerly with M.P. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

 Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

 Two years after the military takeover of Myanmar, the civil war between the military and the People’s Defence Forces assisted by some ethnic armed organisations has reached a stalemate with the collapse of the economy and grave human rights violations. The ASEAN five-point consensus has failed to take off as the military threatens to hold elections in August. India is actively engaged with the military in its national interest

Dhrupad Recital

By  Prabhakar Narayan Pathak from Delhi, son and disciple of Pt Narhari Pathak Mallick and Pt Jagat Narayan Pathak Mallick

At 19:00
Bharatanatyam Recital

By Season Unnikrishnan from Chennai, an alumnus of Kalakshetra