DERAKHT-E-DOOSTI – TREE OF FRIENDSHIP

Celebrating 70 Years of Indo-Iran Friendship

 

Mirza Ghalib: The Simorgh of Indo Persian Literature

Speaker: Prof. Syed Akhtar Husain, Professor, Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: Parzor; and Institute of IndoPersian Studies)

 

 

Roundtable on Contribution of Parsis in the Development of India
 

Speakers include: Mobed Pedram Suroosh, Iranian Zoroastrian Member of Mobed (Priest Society); Dr. Mojtabie, Indologist; H.E. Dr. Ali Chegeni, Ambassador of Iran; and others

 

Hindustani  Classical Vocal Recital

By Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan from Ahmadabad of the Agra-Atrauli gharana,  recipient of the Sanskriti – Pt. Vasant Thakar Memorial Fellowship 2019

 

Accompanists: Shri Vinod Lele on the tabla and Shri Vinay Mishra on Harmonium 

 

(Collaboration: Sanskriti Pratishthan)

In Conversation
 

With Ms Kalpana Palkhiwala: Project Bapu Geetika

An audio compilation of 108 songs/poems on Mahatma Gandhi

 

Bapu Geetika – Songs for the Mahatma is a platform for disseminating songs of and for Mahatma Gandhi. A compendium of 108 songs that celebrate Gandhiji, its intention is to take this music and connect people with Gandhiji’s life and message across India and beyond. It comprises the work of 100 luminary poets in 14 Indian languages set to music, spanning 70 years from Gandhiji’s life time to the present.

 

 

Ms Kalpana Palkhiwala will be in conversation about this project

 

Ms Kalpana Ben Palkhiwala, is a Gandhian who retired as Deputy Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. She has translated many books, written a number of articles and is a Guest Lecturer at Gujarat Vidyapeeth and is also associated with the L.J. Institute of Media and Communication, Ahmedabad

 

(Collaboration: Gujarati Club, New Delhi)

GANDHI MATTERS

 

Ahinsak Bhasha ki Talash

By Prof Apoorvanand, Delhi University 

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Films of the Spirit

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Ghatashraddha, (Kannada)

(144 min; 1977; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Girish  Kasaravalli

 

Set in a rural orthodox Brahmin Karnataka village, Kasaravalli’s first feature film tells the story of a child widow through the eyes of a young boy. Yamuna a young widow stays in an agrahara with her father Udupa, who runs a Veda Pathshala. Nani, the new entrant to the school likes her. Yamuna befriends the village school teacher and becomes pregnant. Soon the villagers find out and terming it “immoral” they decide to outcast her by performing the Ghatashraddha ritual

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility; and National Film Archive, Pune)

 

 

Subliminal Bridges

Rtusamhara – a mentorship programme for poetry

 

Poetry recitations by Be Lagaam poets

Introduction: Anand Khatri

 

(Collaboration: Poesis Society for Poetry)

Fourth L.C. Jain Memorial Lecture 2020

 

Fighting for Freedoms: The Supreme Court in the 21st Century

Speaker: Justice Shri A.P. Shah

 

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar

 

(Collaboration: ADR; and LC Jain Family)

MONDAY 10

 

CONFERENCE ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX  AT 18:00

Inaugural session of 

International Conference on Understanding Africa: Continuity and Change

Introduction to the conference: Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan, Coordinator of the Conference, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and former Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria

 

Keynote Address: Ambassador Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yai, former President, UNESCO Executive Board

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)