An evening of the Punjabi poetry 
Recited and sung by Rekha Raj, Shumita Didi and Poonam Singh

Conceptualised by Reena Nanda

Chalo Faqiran de Mele attempts to revive interest in the Punjabi language through its rich literary heritage. Guru Nanak Dev is revered as the founder of the Sikh religion and his teachings in the Guru Granth Sahib are in the form of the poetical Shabads set to specific ragas. Not just a holy book, it is one of the greatest works of literature that also includes 14 other Sants of the Bhakti tradition like Kabir. Among them, Baba Farid is the only Muslim of the Chishti Sufi silsila. Bulleh Shah and Shah Husayn hugely popularised by Nusrat Fateh Ali and Abida Parveen composed in Panjabi and called themselves Faqirs, not beggars but humble disciples of their particular Murshid/Guru. They recited and sang their poems amongst the populance at large who have kept this oral tradition alive, that, today, constitutes a large body of Punjabi literature. 
 

Panelists: Prof. Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University; Prof. Shreekant Gupta, Delhi School of Economic, University of Delhi; Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr. M. Zakaria Siddiqui, Jamia Millia Islamia

Chair: Prof. Partha Sen, Delhi School of Economics

Organised by the IIC Sectoral Policy Group on Economics

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                                                                                                           16 August 2024

The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology

Edited by Purushottama Bilimoria & Amy Rayner (Routledge India: 2024)

Discussants: Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Canada; Hon’ble Justice Ms Nagma Khan, Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Firozabad; Prof. Shashiprabha Kumar, Chairperson, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; Dr. Manindra Nath Thakur, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, Distinguished Professor of Law and International Philosophy, O. P. Jindal Global University, Visiting Professor, Ashoka University,  Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne and Co-Editor of the book

Moderator: Prof. Savita Singh, School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University

Panelists: Amb. Riva Ganguly Das, former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh and Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India; Dr. Constantino Xavier, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Security Studies, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) and non-resident Fellow, Foreign Policy program, Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Prof. Sreeradha Datta, Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University, and non-resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore; and Shri Dipanjan R. Chaudhury, Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Economic Times

Chair: Amb. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh

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An exhibition of paintings, ceramics and collages

By Siraj Saxena

Curated by Shruti Lakhanpal Tandon

Inauguration by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Shri Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Shri Aman Nath  on Tuesday, 3 September 2024 at 18:30

Curated walk on 9 September 2024 at 11:30 hrs; and 10 September 2024 at 11:00 hrs

The walks will include an introduction to Kunwar Narain’s poetry

On 10 September 2024 at 11:00

Curated Walk and Collage Making Workshop

A special curated walk and collage making workshop for NOIDA Deaf Society

Conducted by Siraj Saxena and Shruti Lakhanpal Tandon

On 10 September 2024 at 17:30

Poetry Reading

By  Shubhashish Chakrabarty and Irshad Khan Sikander

Talk on Kunwar Narain and his connection to art by Dinesh Srinet

The closing of the exhibition will include a Curator’s Address by Shruti Lakhanpal Tandon

A ‘stage documentary’ based on the award-winning biography by Sahar Zaman, grand-niece of Talat Mahmood, well-known playback singer and considered the ‘Ghazal King’. The production is a mix of narration, performance, film projection and choreography

Conceptualised and Directed by Sohaila Kapur
Produced by Three Arts Club and Katyayani Production

The author, Sahar Zaman will speak briefly about her experiences writing the biography and share personal anecdotes about her great-uncle.