Body Sutra

Launch of the new book by Alka Pande (New Delhi: Rupa Books, 2019)

 

Speakers: Dr. Srivats Goswami, Radharaman Mandir; Dr. Alka Pande, author, Art Historian and Curator; and Dr. Swarnamalya Ganesh, dancer, scholar and Professor of Arts, Krea University

 

Moderator: Dr. Arshiya Sethi, independent scholar, Founder and Managing Trustee, Kri Foundation

 

Two Stories of Rajee Seth - Dramatized

Rajee Seth’s short stories evoke a warm humanism tempered with an understanding and empathy for people faced with dilemmas in life, and who reach into their inner selves for answers. The two dramatized stories in Hindi are ‘memory pieces’, where the characters look inward and reflect on events that moved them deeply in their personal lives  

 

Khali Lifafa (Empty Envelope)

‘Ma, you had promised to send me that empty envelope … to say that you are in difficult times … and that you need me …’.  But that envelope never arrives, and the mother dies unexpectedly. The daughter struggles to fathom the relationship with her mother, and the wisdom of her ways, and that the unsaid is equally revealing about life and its challenges. 

 

Ruko, Intezaar Husain (Wait, Intezaar Husain) 

Roshan, a survivor of The Partition from Lahore, longs to revisit his traumatic past forty years after summer of 1947.  Convinced that answers to his past must lie buried somewhere in the many books on The Partition, he starts to read Intezaar Husain’s novel Bastee. Hoping to discover his personal truth he embarks on an inner journey and confronts his past, with shattering realizations of what The Partition means to him

 

Direction:  Rahul Seth, Long Jump Studio 

 

POLICY AND INCLUSION DEBATES SERIES

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Centre for Equity Studies)

The Brexit Conundrum

Panelists: Ambassador Yashvardan Kumar Sinha, former High Commissioner to UK & Central Information Commissioner; 

Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and 

Dr. John Cherian, Foreign Editor, The Frontline

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International Law

 

The 2016 referendum held in the United Kingdom approved Brexit. In March 2017, after much delay, the UK invoked article 50 of the European Union Treaty to give notice of its decision to leave the Union. The long-winded negociations between London and Brussels resulted in an agreement of withdrawal. Yet to be approved by the House of Commons. As of now, the date of exit and whether it will be with or without an agreed deal is uncertain. The panelists will deal with the unfolding drama and its implications for UK, Europe, India, and the rest of the world 

 

A Tribute to Mrinal Sen

A tribute to the celebrated director with a screening of two very popular feature films featuring Mamata Shankar

 

Akaler Sandhaney

Director: Mrinal Sen

 

Recipient of the National Film Awards 1979 for Best Film in Bengali & Best Director

 

The daughter of a middle-class family fails to return home one night. Her worried family organizes a search party and the situation quickly deteriorates into a deeper crisis made worse by the fact that she is the only bread winner in the family

 

 

At 18:00

Kharij (95 min; 1982; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Mrinal Sen

 

Recipient of the National Film Award 1982 for Second Best Direction

 

The film tells the story of a middle-class family who’s child servant is found dead, and their efforts to pacify his grieving father

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India) 

 

Arts from the Banks of the Brahmaputra

 

Sattriya Dances

Choreographed and presented by Guru Meenakshi Medhi and her ensemble from Guwahati

 

Followed by

Popular Melodies of Bhupen Hazarika, Hemant Kumar and Other Bollywood Legends

Vocal recital by Sagnik Sen from Kolkata

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

The Zohra Segal Festival of the Arts

 

Dances from Films C.I.D. and Nau Do Gyarah

Composed by Zohra Segal

 

At 18:45

Film Ladoo

 

At 19:00

Hindustani Classical Vocal

By Kalapini Komkali