ART MATTERS

15 November 2019, 05:30 am
ART MATTERS
Programme Type
Talks
ART MATTERS
 
Contemporary Art of Cambodia
Speaker: Ms Erin Gleeson, curator from USA who will focus on contemporary art of Cambodia in the larger context of South Eastern Asia Art
 
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation; Akar Prakar; and Asia Contemporary Art Week, New York)
 

To Mark the Birth Centenary of Nani Palkhivala

15 November 2019, 05:30 am
To Mark the Birth Centenary of Nani Palkhivala
Programme Type
Talks
To Mark the Birth Centenary of Nani Palkhivala
 
Lecture to be delivered by  Dr Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India
 
(Collaboration: Research and Information System for Developing Countries)
 

A Festival of Music

16 November 2019, 05:30 am
A Festival of Music
Programme Type
Festivals
A Festival of Music
 
Vivekananda
Musical mono act by Shekhar Sen
 

A Festival of Music

15 November 2019, 05:30 am
A Festival of Music
Programme Type
Festivals
A Festival of Music
 
Hindustani Classical Sitar Recital
By Ayan Sengupta
 
Followed by
 
Musical Kabeera
By Maitreyi Pahari
 
Kabir Antarman ki Awaaz
By Vidhi Sharma
 
Music direction: Pt. Ajay Prasanna
 

A Festival of Music

15 November 2019, 05:30 am
A Festival of Music
Programme Type
Festivals
A Festival of Music
 
Hindustani Classical Sitar Recital
By Ayan Sengupta
 
Followed by
 
Musical Kabeera
By Maitreyi Pahari
 
Kabir Antarman ki Awaaz
By Vidhi Sharma
 
Music direction: Pt. Ajay Prasanna
 

A Festival of Music: 14 to 16 November 2019

14 November 2019, 05:30 am
A Festival of Music: 14 to 16 November 2019
Programme Type
Festivals
A Festival of Music: 14 to 16 November 2019
Organised in collaboration with The Rasaja Foundation as part of the Jaya Appasamy Centenary Celebrations
 
Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital
By Kaushiki Chakraborty
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

14 November 2019, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
 
The Swachh Bharat Revolution: Four Pillars of India’s Behavioural Transformation
Edited by Parameswaran Iyer (HarperCollins, 2019)
 
Discussants: Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog; Ms Naina Kidwai, Chairperson, India Sanitation Council; and Shri Hari Menon, Country Director, Gates Foundation, India
 
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
 

Dastan-e-Jallian

14 November 2019, 05:30 am
Dastan-e-Jallian
Programme Type
Cultural
Dastan-e-Jallian
Premiere of a Dastangoi performance on the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy of 1919 
Presented by Dastangoi Collective
 
To mark the centenary year of the massacre, this Dastangoi performance recounts the story of one of the most brutal acts of Colonialism in modern history. It draws from various writings across genres – protest poetry in Urdu and Punjabi; writings of Manto and Krishan Chander; speeches of Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagore; and official reports such as the Hunter Commission Report to tell a story that speaks not just of the past, but also of the present
 
Written by Ainie Farooqui
Performed by Ainie Farooqui and Nusrat Ansari
Directed by Mahmood Farooqui
 

Sustainable Infrastructure – Role of Quantity Surveyor

14 November 2019, 05:30 am
Sustainable Infrastructure – Role of Quantity Surveyor
Programme Type
Discussions
Sustainable Infrastructure – Role of Quantity Surveyor

Introduction: Shri N.P.S. Nihar, MRICS, Associate Director, QS, School of Construction, RICS School of Built Environment
 
 
 
Panelists: Shri Nimish Gupta, FRICS, Managing Director – South Asia, RICS; Shri Sunil Sandur, Associate Director, MACE Group; Mr. William Carr Miles, MRICS, Senior Commercial Manager, MACE Group; Shri Sudhir Gupta, DGM Planning, SPCL; and Shri Prakasam A, Head QS, Mott MacDonald India
 
 
 
Vote of Thanks: Dr. Satya N. Mandal, Professor, School of Construction, RICS SBE
 
 
Development of infrastructure boosts the economy and sustainable infrastructure is the way forward for India in this direction. Sustainable infrastructure tries to add value to the facilities in the long run thereby improving the standard of living. The focus of sustainable infrastructure projects is to optimize aspects such as energy consumption, water consumption, solid waste management etc. which requires considerable cost in sustainable engineering that can reap benefits from the perspective of life cycle costs. A quantity surveyor plays a pivotal role in the construction of sustainable and energy efficient infrastructure. The balance of sustainability and affordability is a challenge for the Quantity surveyor in delivering sustainable infrastructure. In addition to traditional ways of estimating and controlling costs, the quantity surveyor has to look at the concepts of whole life costing and cost effective sustainable strategies to evaluate the green costs of projects. The Quantity surveyor has to adopt offsite construction methods to minimize the costs as well as energy consumption. There is need for the quantity surveyor to drive the mission of sustainable directives without compromising profitability. The objective of this dialogue is to discuss the competencies, future roles and strategies that a Quantity surveyor could make in delivering sustainable infrastructure
 
(Collaboration: RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University)

FILMS OF THE SPIRIT

13 November 2019, 05:30 am
FILMS OF THE SPIRIT
 
FILMS OF THE SPIRIT
Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
 
The Passion of Joan of Arc (110 min; 1928; dvd; b/w; silent)
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer
 
Recipient of the NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA 1929; and OFTA Film Hall of Fame for Motion Picture, Online Film & Television Association 2010 
 
Dreyer's most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most staggeringly intense films ever made. It deals only with the final stages of Joan of Arc's trial and her execution, and is composed almost exclusively of close-ups: hands, robes, crosses, metal bars, and (most of all) faces. The narrative of this profound and passionate film constitutes a double struggle: one between Joan and her captors (the English army and the French clergy) and the other within her own self
 
(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama; and National Film Archive, Pune)