India-China Relations: Galwan valley Postscript

05 August 2020, 05:30 am
India-China Relations: Galwan valley Postscript
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
India-China Relations: Galwan valley Postscript
Speakers: Col. Ajai Shukla (Retd.), Consulting Editor (Strategic Affairs, Business Standard; Shri Ananth Krishnan, journalist with The Hindu and author of the forthcoming book India’s China Challenge; and Prof. Hemant Adlakha, Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese and South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
Moderator: Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi
 
The discussion takes off from the recent events of June 2020 on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Galwan valley that marks the end of a 45-year period which saw no armed confrontation involving the loss of lives. The discussion will re-evaluate and re-assess India’s China policy and what is the way forward
 

 


 

Mehfil with Bhuvanesh Komkali (120 min)

03 August 2020, 05:30 am
Mehfil with Bhuvanesh Komkali (120 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
Mehfil with Bhuvanesh Komkali (120 min)
Mehfil with Pandit Kumar Gandharva bani exponent Shri Bhuvanesh Komkali (Khayal)
 
Born into a rich legacy of music, Bhuvanesh Komkali is the grandson of Pandit Kumar Gandharva and Vidushi Vasundhara Komkali and the son of Pandit Mukul Shivputra. He continues to receive guidance from Pandit Madhup Mudgal and Pandita Kalapini Komkali. As a homage to Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Bhuvanesh will sing ragas and bandishes created by him.
 
Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research & NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music
 
Webcast recording of the programme held on 11th December 2015
 

Evolution The Most Important Theory in Biology (99 min)

15 April 2013, 05:30 am
Evolution The Most Important Theory in Biology (99 min)
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building
 
Evolution The Most Important Theory in Biology (99 min)
Speaker: Prof. D.J. Futuyma, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Environment, State University of New York and Member of the National Academy of Sciences of USA who has written a number of scholarly books 
 
Chair: Prof. R. Geeta, Botany Department, University of Delhi
 
Despite the simplicity of its central concepts, evolution has a long history of misunderstandings and despite its lack of moral or prescriptive content, evolution has been used to justify social policies that range from the admirable to the appalling. Of all the biological disciplines, evolutionary biology has the most far-reaching philosophical implications and the most diverse applications to society. Prof. Futuyma will outline some of the major principles.
 
Webcast recording of the programme held on 15th April 2013

Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia (67 min)

21 November 2016, 05:30 am
Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia (67 min)
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts
Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia (67 min)
Keynote Address: Dr. Ganesh Devy, Chairman, People’s Linguistic Survey of India
Introduction: Professor Anvita Abbi, Seminar Coordinator; Honorary Director, Centre for Oral and Tribal Literature, Sahitya Akademi
 
Guest of Honour: Dr. D. P. Pattanayak, eminent linguist                        
Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division
 
Organised by IIC-International Research Division
 
Webcast recording of the programme held on 21st November 2016
 


In War and Peace – The Life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, MC

03 August 2020, 05:30 am
In War and Peace – The Life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, MC
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
In War and Peace – The Life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, MC
(60 min; 2003; English)
Director: Jessica Gupta
Produced by UNESCO Parzor Project
 
Documentary on the life of India’s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. The film travels back in time through Sam’s rich and unique life through a conversation with his grandson Jehan, making the past come alive. The film re-visits a part of history that many of today’s generation know very little about. It is a tale of heroism, bravery, honesty, wit and much more…
 
 In War and Peace: https://youtu.be/fmV0AlnVw34
 
(Collaboration: Parzor; and Jiyo Parsi)

A Festival of Plays

03 August 2020, 05:30 am
A Festival of Plays
Programme Type
Cultural
A Festival of Plays
Organised in collaboration with Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, four plays of Pippo Delbono, well-known Italian theatre actor and director will be streamed through Vimeo links. Presented by the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Italy, each of the plays feature leading actors from theatres in Modena, Cesena, Vignola and Castelfranco Emilia.
 
The four plays will be presented over the next four weeks and can be accessed through the Vimeo link pasted below. The plays are in Italian with English subtitles
 
Orchids (Orchidee; 115 min)
Written and Directed by Pippo Delbono
 
Orchids is a collage of texts and music, musical pieces taken from Pietro Mascagni, Enzo Avitabile, Deep Purple, Miles Davis and Philip Glass, and theatrical verses taken from Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet) and from Chekhov, whose leitmotif is the passion for life. Until the poignant final of The Cherry Orchard.
 
The play is a tribute to a loved one who is no longer there, a wake for a dying mother also realized through the images (sometimes raw) of the main character’s real agony in the hospital.
 
As in all his shows, Delbono brings on stage a cast of "real" people, a cast that also includes social marginalists, such as the deaf and dumb Bobò, who lived in an asylum for forty years, and Gianluca, a boy down who masterfully interprets characters full of life, excite the spectators.
 

Mehfil with Bhuvanesh Komkali

27 July 2020, 05:30 am
Mehfil with Bhuvanesh Komkali
Programme Type
Talks
Mehfil with Pandit Kumar Gandharva bani exponent Shri Bhuvanesh Komkali (Khayal)

Born into a rich legacy of music, Bhuvanesh Komkali is the grandson of Pandit Kumar Gandharva and Vidushi Vasundhara Komkali and the son of Pandit Mukul Shivputra. He continues to receive guidance from Pandit Madhup Mudgal and Pandita Kalapini Komkali. As a homage to Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Bhuvanesh will sing ragas and bandishes created by him.

Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research & NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music

Webcast recording of the programme held on 11th December 2015

Music Appreciation Promotion

27 July 2020, 05:30 am
Music Appreciation Promotion
Programme Type
Talks
Sufi Raah: The Classical Tradition of Tappa (96 min)
Famous for her renditions of the classical tradition of tappas, Shanno Khurana explains why this most arduous of Hindustani musical forms attracted her, what is the nature of their variety of rendition and she analyses their poetic lyrics to reveal the unique cultural synthesis that lies behind them. Their words express Sufi ideas, and their language is the Multani dialect of Punjabi in which much of our classical music is composed. The form really became popular in eighteenth century Lucknow and Banaras where it was given the most rigorous classical grammar even as the importance of the poetry diminished there. By the end of the twentieth century however, there were few practitioners left of the form

Dr. Shanno Khurana, musician and musicologist, Padmabhushan and Fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, has commanded the Indian performing stage for seventy years ever since her first broadcast from Lahore Radio station in 1945. She is known not just for her deep knowledge of Indian classical raagdaari but also her formidable repertoire garnered from the stalwarts to the Gwalior, Agra and Rampur gharanas.

This evening she will be in conversation with her grandson, Prof Naman Ahuja and revisit her album with the same title: Sufi Raah, the Classical Tradition of Tappa, and compare it with renditions by her mentors

Webcast recording of the programme held on 23rd September 2016

Indian Archaeology When the Gods begin to dance in Angkor

20 April 2017, 05:30 am
Indian Archaeology When the Gods begin to dance in Angkor
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building

When the Gods begin to dance in Angkor - Architecture for the Dancing God: Hall with Dancers in the Jayavarman VII Temples (65 min)
Speaker: Dr. Swati Chemburkar
Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

The spiritual power of dance in Cambodia has been valued since pre-Angkorian times, and plentiful images of dance and music in the bas-reliefs of the great monuments of Angkor suggest that this tradition was markedly enhanced in the reign of Jayavarman VII, as a contemporary Chinese report attests. Focusing on the ‘halls with dancers’, a distinct architectural feature of Jayavarman VII’s temples, the lecture explores the link between the architecture, associated inscriptions, dance and music rituals evolving in Angkor and contemporary Chola temples that housed several mandapas. The lecture argues that the architecture of the halls with dancers worked in tandem with ritual practices to provide a symbolic and possibly actual space for encountering divine

Webcast recording of the programme held on 20th April 2017

A Festival of Plays

27 July 2020, 05:30 am
A Festival of Plays
Programme Type
Film Club
Organised in collaboration with Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, four plays of Pippo Delbono, well-known Italian theatre actor and director will be streamed through Vimeo links. Presented by the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Italy, each of the plays feature leading actors from theatres in Modena, Cesena, Vignola and Castelfranco Emilia.

The four plays will be presented over the next four weeks and can be accessed through the Vimeo link pasted below. The plays are in Italian with English subtitles

After the Battle (Dopo la battaglia/ 110 min)
Written and Directed by Pippo Delbono

An interdisciplinary work combining theatre, music and dance, and forging new territory in the career of prize-winning Italian writer, actor, and director Pippo Delbono. Delbono stretches the boundaries of his theatrical language and deepens his investigation of the relationship between body and text, action and sound.

Delbono draws his inspiration from encounters with social outcasts. Stemming from his firm belief that people on the margins can understand the truth better than “normative” people, he incorporates these performers in his theatre groups and works, weaving a subtle and unique human fabric. In this theatrical event, Delbono’s theatre group mixes up a brew of irony, provocation, and tenderness, peppered with music, dance, and poetic texts.


https://vimeo.com/408035067