Concert – Guitar Duet

By the Grigoryan Brothers from Australia – Slave & Leonard Grigoryan, regarded as Australia’s finest guitarists

 

With a repertoire spanning centuries, continents and genres, the Grigoryan Brothers have amazing telepathy and the ability to draw emotion from every note

 

(Collaboration: Australian High Commission)

 

FILMS OF THE SPIRIT

Curator: Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Trishagni (The Sand Storm/Hindi)

(102 min; 1988; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Nabendu Ghosh

 

With Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath, Nitish Bhardwaj

 

Recipient of the Best First Film of a Director, National Film Awards 1988

 

Based on a historical short story, Moru o Sangho written by Saradundu Bandopadhyay, and inspired by Buddha’s Fire Sermon. The film is set in the Buddhist town of Sariput in the deserts of Central Asia, around 200 B.C., when the town is struck by a devastating sandstorm that leaves behind only four survivors: two monks, and two children taking refuge in the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have aged, while the boy and the girl have grown and fall in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy to become a monk, but the girl wins him back. As a result both are expelled from the monastery, and that is when the sandstorm strikes once again

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of H.H. the Dalai Lama; and National Film Archive of India, Pune)

 

The Poetry Society (India) Annual Lecture

 

Wordscapes: Poetry and Possibility

Speaker: Prof. Radha Chakravarty, Professor of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, and Dean, School of Letters, Ambedkar University, Delhi. A writer, critic and translator, she has co-edited The Essential Tagore (Harvard and VisvaBharati),  edited Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore (Social Science Press, 2015); author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers (Routledge, 2008) and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts (Routledge, 2013); and her translations of Tagore include Gora, Chokher Bali, Boyhood days, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children, among other publications

 

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul, President, The Poetry Society (India) 

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

Perspectives on Work, Home and Identity from artisans in Telangana: Conversations around Craft

Discussion based on the new book by Chandan Bose (New York: Palgrave, 2019)

 

Reading of an excerpt from the book: Prof. Chandan Bose, cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

 

Panelists: Dr. Aditya Malik, Vice Chancellor, K.R. Mangalam University; Shri Rajeev Sethi, Founder, Asian Heritage Foundation; and Prof. Savyasaachi, Professor, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

Chair: Shri Rajiv Sethi

 

Conversations around Craft dwells upon narratives of artisans who share their experiences of making and of being craftspersons in contemporary India. The book is the result of ethnographic study of a household of artisans in Telangana who specialize in the region’s style of murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines. In situating voices of artisans as the central focus of study, Conversations around Craft allows readers to explore the simultaneous and juxtaposing locations where practitioners situate the experience of making and of being craftpersons

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

The Uren Story: Ascent of Human Society

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Goutami Bhattacharya, Deputy Superintending Archaeologist (Excavation Branch IV), Archaeological Survey of India, Bhubaneswar

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

Two seasons of excavations (2016-18) at Uren, district Lakhisarai, Bihar by the Archaeological Survey of India, Excavation Branch III, Patna has revealed a complete unbroken sequence of cultures starting with the proto-historic village culture and ending with a flourishing Buddhist establishment during the Pala period. The site has brought to light, evidence of an ancient habitation that traversed the entire journey of human settlement from an incipient village that quickly learnt to gainfully exploit its immediate surroundings and developed first as an urban mercantile settlement and finally transformed as a famed religious centre

 

A Moment of Reflection

Celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and India. Presenting a collection of archival photographs of both Indonesian and Indian leaders, photographs of landmark events in the bi-lateral relations between the two nations, and the  building of diplomatic relations between 1949 to 2019

 

Curator: Reha Sodhi

 

Inauguration by H.E. Mr. Sidharto Reza Suryodipuro, Ambassador of Indonesia  on Monday, 9 December 2019 at 16:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Indonesia)

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Respiratory Diseases and Air Pollution

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

 

Fusion – New Music for a New Age

Concert by Richard Steinbach, pianist from USA

 

The artists will present music arranged by Howard Helvey, Mark Hayes & Joseph M. Martin; compositions by Chick Corea, Richard Addinsell, Gwyneth Walker, Jorge López Marín & Lowell Liebermann; and music from Brazil by Dimitri Cervo, Edmundo Villani-Cortes, Ronaldo Miranda & Claudio Daue lsberg

 

Mind Body Healing Seminar 2019 on Depression 

Conceptualised by Bijoylaxmi Hota, noted Yoga expert, therapist, and author of Yoga for Busy People

 

From 15:00 to 16:30: Seminar on Yoga, Music Therapy, Sound Therapy, Psychotherapy and Ayurveda

Chief Guest: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Guest of Honour: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

 

Speakers: Dr. G. Prabhakara Rao, (Ayurveda), Deputy Medical Commissioner, ESIC, Delhi; Katherine Martin, Music Therapist from UK, Ashwaas Centre for Music Therapy, New Delhi; Dr. Rachna Bhargava, Additional Professor (Clinical Psychology), Dept. of Psychiatry & National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences; Manan Sharma, Founder Director, Manan Wellness Center and Sonic Wellness Institute, New Delhi

 

17:00 to 17:30: Integrated Yoga Workshop - Conducted by Bijoylaxmi Hota

 

17:30 to 18:00: Music Workshop - Conducted by Katherine Martin

 

18:00 to 18:30: Sound Workshop - Conducted by Manan Sharma

 

18:30 to 19:00: Psychotherapy Workshop – Conducted by Dr. Rachna Bhargava

 

19:00 to 19:30: Ayurveda Consultation with Dr. G. Prabhakara Rao

 

Carnatic Music – Vocal and Instrumental

 

Presenting budding young talents from Delhi

 

 

 

Artists: Ananaya Venkatesan (vocal); Uma Arun (violin); Abhishek Awdhani (mridangam); & Varun Rajasekar (ghatam)

 

 

 

Radhika & Bhargavi (vocals); S. Vignesh (violin); Ratul S. Kumar (mridangam); & Shounak Banerjee (ghatam)

 

 

 

Harini (vocal); Vaishanvi Nathan (violin); Sambhavi Baskar (mridangam); & Datta Kiran (morsing)

 

 

 

Mithuna (vocal); Harikeshav (violin); M. Sriram (mridangam); & Shounak Banerjee (ghatam)

 

 

 

S. Aswini & K. Sowmya (violin); P. Adithya Narayan (mridangam); & Varun Rajasekar (ghatam)

 

 

 

S. Avinash (vocal); Siddesh Ganesh (violin); B. Manohar (mridangam); & M. Sriram (ghatam)

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)