Princely Palaces in New Delhi

Speaker: Dr. Sumanta K. Bhowmick, Additional Director, Rajya Sabha Secretariat and author of Princely Palaces in New Delhi (pub. Niyogi Books, 2016)

 

Chair: Dr. Narayani Gupta

 

IIC SPRING FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DANCE

 

IIC Spring Festival of Dance

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Uma B. Ramesh from Chennai, disciple of Guru K.J. Govindarajan and Smt Kanaka Srinivasan

 

AT 19:00

Odissi Recital

By Nitisha Nanda from Delhi, disciple of Guru Sharon Lowen

 

IIC SPRING FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DANCE: 11 AND 12 APRIL 2019

 

IIC Spring Festival of Music

Sitar Recital

By Varadraj Bhonsale from Kolhapur, disciple of Pt. Arvind Parikh

 

AT 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Debjani Dhar from Delhi, disciple of the late Pt. Harihar Shukla and Pt. Madhup Mudgal

Early Indian History and Beyond

Essays in Honour of Professor B. D. Chattopadhyaya edited by Osmund Bopearachchi & Suchandra Ghosh

 

Panelists: Romila Thapar; Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya;  Kumkum Roy; Meera Viswanathan; Suchandra Ghosh; and Osmund Bopearachchi 

 

(Collaboration: Primus Books)

Women in Law in India

Speaker: Smt Justice Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court 

 

Discussants: Shri Arghya Sengupta, Vidhi Dialogues; and Ms Liz Matthew, Advocate

Chair: Shri Justice B.N. Srikrishna

 

Justice Malhotra will speak on her journey in understanding the legal profession in India and how that experience moulded women in taking stands and making judgements. It is also a platform to articulate how dexterously the instrument of law can be wielded by women to solve problems that beset our society

 

First in a new lecture series focusing on women in law in India

 

To mark the 83rd Anniversary of Lodhi Garden

 

Pictorial Walk in Lodhi Garden

With Ashok Dilwali, well-known photographer

 

Followed by a discussion on

Saving the Aravalli is critical for the Survival of Delhi

Why and how to save Aravalli - Speaker: Prof. C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi and Distinguished Professor of the Environment and Ecology, School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University, Delhi

Judicial Intervention to save Aravalli – Speaker: Shri T.K. Shah, former Vice Chairman, Income Tax Settlement Commission, Kolkata and Advocate

 

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi

 

The Green Circle of Delhi is arranging a visit to the Aravalli Biodiversity Park for IIC Members on Sunday, 14 April 2019. Members who would like to join are requested to give their names at the venue

 

Kindly please bring a cloth/jute carry bag to take away a sapling which will be presented to each participant by NDMC Horticulture Department

 

(Collaboration: Green Circle of Delhi)

 

Remembering Freda Bedi

The extraordinary story of a devoted Indian wife and doting mother, a hands on social worker and investigative journalist, a university teacher and Tibetan translator, a Gandhi satyagraha and Buddhist nun

 

Launch of the book The Spiritual Odyssey of Freda Bedi by Norma Levine followed by a discussion with eminent Buddhist masters, and close associates and friends of Freda Bedi 

 

(Collaboration: Vikramshila Foundation India)

 

Rahul Sankrityayan: Untangling a Legacy

Speaker: Dr. Maya Joshi is Associate Professor at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She has also worked in close association with Tibet House, New Delhi for over a decade

 

Chair: Apoorvanand

 

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963), the partially-remembered polymath, deserves a closer, clearer look. Based on a decade-long engagement with the subject, the illustrated talk will delineate the major contours of his remarkable intellectual and political growth, and dwell on ways in which his vast oeuvre compels us to join him in his adventurous travels across borders disciplinary, linguistic, generic. His ghumakkari engages dialogically with the categories of nation, culture, religion, and identity

 

Concert

By Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Mohan veena and Salil Bhatt, Satvik veena 

Accompanied by Ram Kumar Mishra on tabla

 

Programme in memory of Sharan Rani Backliwal

IIC BAITHAKI

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Ankita Joshi from Mumbai, disciple of Sangeet Martand Pt. Jasraj; and Shri Lakshmikant Ravande

Accompanists: Abhinav Ravande (harmonium); and Ramkrishna Karambelkar (tabla)