With Love from India

Concert by The Capital City Minstrels

 

METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY

 

 

 

 

THE IIC  DOUBLE BILL CONCERT 

 

Sitar Recital

By Adnan Khan from Delhi, disciple of  Bandish Nawaz Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan

 

Followed by

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Bishnumurari Chatterjee from Delhi, disciple of Smt Purobi Chatterjee and Prof Subhash Chakladar

 

Afghan Art: A Land in Conflict and Hope

 

Contemporary Art from Afghanistan

 

An exhibition of paintings in water colour and oils by a group of artists from Afghanistan led by Mohammad Salim Attaie from Kabul; Abdul Fatah Amar; Mohammad Azim Rawofi, and Mohibullah Attaie (Moheb Sadiq)

 

 

 

Inauguration on  Tuesday, 22nd May 2018 at 18:30 by H.E. Dr. Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Ambassador of Afghanistan

 

 

 

Afghanistan’s art scene has seen a revival since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Contemporary art reflects on what happened in Afghanistan during the past decades and the current challenges. Most artists have not had formal art training and paint what they see, with what they have. This exhibition is evidence of the ‘never say die’ spirit of the Afghans

Fiscal Federalism in India: Finance Commissions, Niti Aayog and the GST Council

Speaker: Shri V. Srinivas, IAS, Chairman, Board of Revenue for Rajasthan and Chairman, Rajasthan Tax Board, Ajmer

Chair: Dr. Sudipto Mundle, Emeritus Professor and Member of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi; former member of the Fourteenth Finance Commission
 

 

The lecture will focus on the impact of the implementation of the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission on the development programmes of States, the working of GST councils as a notable example of cooperative federalism and the impact of Niti Aayog. It will also identify the challenges before the 15th Finance Commission as an instrument for strengthening Fiscal Federalism in India

 

FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

A Farmer from Kuttanad (Malayalam)

(51 min; 2012; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Santosh Sivan

 

The film unfolds the various facets of the land and the life of a farmer from Kuttanad, tucked away between the sea and the backwaters and hidden in the shadows of coconut palms, referred to as the Venice of the East

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

Ahmedabad Mill Worker’s Strike 1918

An exhibition to mark the centenary of the strike 

Inauguration on Friday, 18 May 2018 at 18:30 by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Life Trustee IIC and Chairperson, IIC International Research Division

 

Chief Guest: Shri Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Director General & Secretary, Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai

 

 

The strike of the Ahmedabad textile workers in 1918 is remembered because of its unique nature. The leader of the workers was Anasuya Sarabhai and her brother, Ambalal Sarabhai was the President of the Millowners Association. When the millowners were considering stopping the plague bonus they had been giving and the workers asked for increased wages and threatened to go on strike, both Anasuya and Ambalal asked Mahatma Gandhi to come and intervene.  After 22 days, a compromise was worked out. Gandhi had insisted that there should be no violence. The struggle was conducted peacefully without any hostility. Gandhi said that he had never seen a struggle where there was so little animosity. After this the Ahmedabad Textile Association, a trade union on Gandhian lines, was launched

 

(Collaboration: National Gandhi Museum; and Shanti Sadan Trust, Ahmedabad)

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Verdi and the Father Complex

An illustrated lecture by Prof Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at JNU and a lover of western classical music 

 

A running thread in much of the work of the Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi is the complex relationship between father and child. The lecture will explore on how that complexity is expressed musically in some of his most famous operas, like La Traviata, Rigoletto and Don Carlo

 

Chair: Prof  Partho Datta, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU 

A Poetic Journey from East to West

Panel discussion and launch of the book

 

Romanticising a Cultural Journey from East to West

By Rita Malhotra

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Dev Swarup, Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Rajasthan

 

Panelists: Dr. Hema Raghavan; Dr. Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee; and Dr. Harivansh Chaturvedi

 

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

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)