Readings

Raúl Zurita and publisher V.K. Karthika release poet and fiction writer, Sharmishtha Mohanty’s Extinctions (Context, an imprint of Westland Books). Mohanty will then read from the work

Readings by Aishwarya Iyer who writes in English. Her first book of poems will be published shortly

Balam Rodrigo, one of the strongest voice in Mexican poetry, accompanied by translator Anna Deeny Morales

Readings 

By S. Anand, founder of Navayana Books and the publisher of Namdeo Dhasal, Poet of the Underworld, reads from this Marathi poet in English along with audio recordings of Dhasal reciting his work

Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, one of the most extraordinary poets of our times, accompanied by his translator, Anna Deeny Morales
 

Organised in collaboration with Almost Island. Readings by leading poets from India, Chile, Cuba and Mexico. All work will be read in the original and in English

Readings
By Reina Maria Rodriguez, leading Cuban poet, with her translator, Kristin Dykstra

Anitha Thampi, acclaimed Malayalam poet. English translations will be read alongside
 

Presented by Dr. Uma Sharma and her disciples

Dance Choreography: Dr. Uma Sharma
Music: Pt. Jwala Prasad (late)

(Collaboration: Uma Sharma School of Dance and Music –  Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan)
 

(138 min; 2021; English/Hindi with English subtitles)
Directed by Hemant Chaturvedi who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film follows the lives and creative journeys of 14 cinematographers, who worked primarily in the Mumbai film industry. Between these 14 people, they have filmed over 800 movies and over 15,000 commercials, between the early 1960s and until the previous decade. The film captures their early years and the serendipitous events that chart the emotional journeys of professionals; and the inevitability and mortality of their lives
 

The Arab Spring that Was and Wasn’t 

By K.P. Fabian (ICWA & Macmillan Education, New Delhi: 2022)

Discussants: Amb. T.C. A. Raghavan, former diplomat and Director General, Indian Council for World Affairs; Amb. Talmiz Ahmad, former diplomat, Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and author; and Amb. K.P. Fabian, author of the book

Chair: Prof. Gulshan Dietl
 

Panelists: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Studies Programme at Gateway House, author of Indo-Myanmar Relations and former Indian Ambassador to Myanmar and Mexico and High Commissioner to Kenya, South Africa and Lesotho; Shri Kallol Bhattacharjee, Senior Assistant Editor, The Hindu, author of The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, Gen. Zia and the Unending War; and Mr. Jaffarullah, Founding Member, Rohingya Human Rights Initiative who is presently a teacher at The National Institute of Open Schooling

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Distinguished Fellow, Symbiosis University and former diplomat

Myanmar is experiencing a time of trouble following the coup d’état carried out by the military on 1^st February 2021 after the party it supported lost the election to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi whose party won the election. Since then the military has used brutal violence to put down resistance to its regime. So far, the international community, including the UN Security Council has failed to assist Myanmar in restoring democracy

Vocal recital by Astha Goswami, disciple of Pt. Arun Bhaduri and Smt Girija Devi
Accompanied by Atual Shankar, Athar Hussain and Kaushik Mitra

Astha has evolved her own unique style of Padavali Gaayan which incorporates the rich intricacies of Khayal gayaki. Her repertoire includes a rich and rare compositions from the Braj region and songs of different seasons

(Collaboration: Guild for Service)
 

Speaker: Mr. Ravi Seethapathy, Executive Chairman, Biosirus Inc., Ontario, Canada and Advisor & WG Chair, India Smart Grid Forum

(Collaboration: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute; and India Smart Grid Forum)
 

Panel discussion on The Home and Beyond: The World of the Amateur Photographer

Panelists: Sabeena Gadihoke, Professor, Video & TV Production, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia; Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Art Historian and Honorary Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Mallika Leuzinger, historian based at the German Historical Institute, London; Suryanandinin Narain, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Uma Chakravarti, feminist historian, filmmaker and archivist

(Collaboration: CREA; Jadunath Bhavan, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata; and with the support of PhotoSouthAsia, MurthyNAYAK Foundation)