Readings by Vikram Seth followed by a conversation with Chiki Sarkar, Publisher, Penguin India

 

Introduction Shri Soli J. Sorabjee

 

Programme held on 14th April 2012

 

An Evening with Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, Gwalior gharana maestro accompanied by Mohammed Hafeez Khan (harmonium), Bilal Khan (tabla) and Arshad Ali (tanpura and vocal support)

 

Khan Sahib (born 1908) will present rare Malhar ragas sung in the rainy season, drawing on ta'leem received nearly eight decades ago, as well as some of his own compositions penned under the name “Rasan Piya” 

 

(Collaboration: Jnana Pravaha and NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music)

 

Programme held on 13th July 2012

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA 

Speaker: Prof. D. Prabhakaran, Vice-President, Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India

 

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

 

Programme held on 4th June 2019
 

India International Centre · HEALTHCARE IN INDIA Meeting the Challenges of Non-communicable Diseases in India

Illustrated lecture by Prof. B.N. Goswamy and Professor Eberhard Fischer Art-anthropologist, former Director and Senior Director, Museum Rietberg Zurich and specialist for African and Indian art        

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Karan Singh, MP, President, ICCR

 

Introduction: Dr. Jyotindra Jain

 

Programme held on 23rd November 2011

 

Illustrated lecture by Prof. B.N. Goswamy and Professor Eberhard Fischer Art-anthropologist, former Director and Senior Director, Museum Rietberg Zurich and specialist for African and Indian art        

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Karan Singh, MP, President, ICCR

 

Introduction: Dr. Jyotindra Jain

 

Programme held on 23rd November 2011

 

A soulful evening of saint-poet Kabir’s poetry –from an unbroken oral tradition of singing for 600 years in village after village of the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh 

 

By Prahlad Singh Tipanya – one of the most compelling folk voices of Kabir in India today who combines singing and explanation of Kabir bhajans in the Malwa folk style. He is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Academy award and Padma Shri. For this performance he is accompanied by a seven member troupe of singers and instrumentalists

 

Part of a series to mark the birth centenary of D. S. Borker, civil servant and public sector administrator.

 

(Collaboration: D. S. Borker Memorial Foundation)

 

Programme organised on 24th August 2011
 

 

Webcast video recording of the programme held on 27th September 2011

 

Dialogue between Dr. Irene Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor Emerita, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard 

University; author of the recently published two volumes of collected essays, On Art in the Ancient Near East and Professor Shereen Ratnagar, archaeologist; interested in both South Asia and Mesopotamia; author of Understanding Harappa

 

Chair: Professor S.C. Malik, interdisciplinary anthropologist and archaeologist   

 

Organised as part of the Seminar: Asian Encounters: Networks of Cultural Interactions
 

Illustrated lecture by Shri Ashoke Chatterjee, Trustee, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, who will speak about the legacy of the pioneering dancer who left an indelible mark in the world of Indian dance

 

MP Film clips from the archives of Omnibus (USA) and BBC (UK)

 

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

Speaker: Prof. G.C. Khilnani Chairman, PSRI Institute of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine 

 

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