The Discovery of Architecture – A Contemporary Treatise on Ancient Values and Indigenous Reality
A conversation with Prof. Narendra Dengle, Architect, Educator and Writer; Former Design Chair, KRVIA Mumbai, and Academic Chair, Goa College of Architecture and PVPCOA, Pune; and Prof. Savyasaachi, Anthropologist, Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia
 
Moderator: Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi
  
First in a bi-monthly series, structured around dialogues that endeavour to present and discuss the role of architecture in contributing positively to society and to culture. The series will focus on examples relevant to our context, and in doing so, bring to the fore issues that are universal in the creation of meaningful architecture. 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.
 
This webinar is dedicated to the memory of Professor M.N. Ashish Ganju, Founding Director of TVB School of Habitat Studies; co-author The Discovery of Architecture – A Contemporary Treatise on Ancient Values and Indigenous Reality

A documentary series presented by Michael Wood, exploring magnificent masterpieces of the Western world in their cultural and historical settings. The series consists of eighteen episodes, each of which focusses on the artistic contributions of one period in the history of the West, from Ancient Greece to the late 1980s. From the classical ideals in Greek and Roman antiquity, through the Renaissance, to the postmodernism of the later 1980s, the series provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Two episodes will be presented every week online
IN OUR OWN TIME 

Episode 17: The Aftermath [25:52 min]
The Abstract Expressionist movement established New York as a centre for the visual arts. Works by Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and the sculptor Oldenburg are examined.

Click here to watch Episode 17

Episode 18: New, Newer, Newest [26:06 min]
With many of the rules tested and discarded, the art world has become international. Art is now accessible to everyone to create and appreciate.

Click here to watch Episode 18
 

[82 min; 1949; b/w; English]
Director: Alexander Mackendrick

With Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood

Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA 1950

A warm and funny 1949 portrait of a Scottish island thrown into a panic when the wartime allotment of whiskey runs out. Conveniently, an American ship loaded with 50,000 cases of Scotch flounders just offshore, and the islanders go to the rescue. Mackendrick's direction of the ensemble cast is impeccable: no one character is allowed to dominate, yet each character is indispensable. A classic tale of gentle anti-authoritarianism.
 

[43:51; 2020; English]
A National Geographic documentary series takes viewers back in time to see aerial footage of how earlier landscapes in China were shaped, including the Great Wall, Kublai Khan's legendary lost city and a newly-discovered city from 4,000 years ago.

In this episode, Dr Allan Maca investigates the biggest manmade structure on earth; The Great Wall of China.

[54 min; 1961; b/w; English]
A film by Satyajit Ray

The documentary was made to celebrate Tagore's birth centenary in May 1961. Ray was conscious that he was making an official portrait of India's celebrated poet and hence the film does not include any controversial aspects of Tagore's life. However, it is far from being a propaganda film. The film comprises dramatized episodes from the poet's life and archived images and documents.
 

[60 min; 2017; English]
Director: Katy Homan

For decades, Margaret Atwood has been universally acclaimed as Canada's greatest living writer. Fearlessly outspoken in life and in her work, Atwood has always been an unrelenting provocateur. Alan Yentob meets Margaret Atwood in Toronto and discovers how a childhood spent between the Canadian wilderness and the city helped shape her vision of herself and the world, set alight her imagination and set her forth on a path to literary success.
 

Presenting selected works of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance. The online exhibition includes paintings (oil and watercolour), woodcuts, etchings and drawings covering an eclectic mix of religious works, portraits, landscapes, studies of animals, of plants and of people.

This online exhibition is on view from 10 to 23 May 2021.

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Vegetarian Cuisine from the Himalayan Foothills: Flavours and beyond
By Veena Sharma (Niyogi Books, New Delhi: 2020)

ABOUT THE BOOK
A delectable experience for gastronomes, this book has mouth-watering recipes that draw upon local bounties — some delve into forgotten, or less used, grains and greens, spices and fruits — from the Himalayan heights. Exploring a variety of palates and creating a whole range of nutritious and tasty foods, there is an underlay of a desire to retain and re-establish the biodiversity that is vital for your physical and mental health.

Discussants: Prof. Pushpesh Pant, academic, food critic & historian; Chef Gautam Mehrishi, Executive Chef, Renaissance Mumbai & Lakeside Chalet, Mumbai; and Prof. Veena Sharma, academic and author of the book

Moderator: Ms Jasleen Vohra

An online workshop with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

On 8 and 9 May 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

The two day- workshop led by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, world-renowned Buddhist teacher and practitioner, will specifically look at investigating the nature of our mind and explore the techniques that can help contain our ever-restless mind; inquire whether meditation can be employed as a tool to calm our mind; explore how we can incorporate meditation as a habit in our daily routine; and address precautions and destabilizing effects of meditations and how to handle such situations.

(Collaboration: Ritinjali; Centre for Escalation of Peace; Pallavan Learning Systems; and Vikramshila Foundation)