BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

100 Ideas to Improve Governance in India

By J.K. Dadoo (Mumbai: The Write Place, 2018)

 

Discussants: Shri Pankaj Vohra, Editor, The Sunday Guardian; Shri Parag Tripathi, former Additional Solicitor General of India; and Shri Srikant Velamakami, CEO, Fractal Analytics

 

Chair: Shri Shumsher K. Sheriff, Secretary General, Rajya Sabha

 

Archaeology at the margins of empire in premodern south India: Case studies from Karnataka

Speaker:  Dr. Uthara Suvrathan, Visiting Asst. Prof., Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS, Mumbai

 

Chair: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

This talk will focus on archaeological survey and cartographic analysis to discuss how the understanding of past landscapes provides interesting insights into pre-modern political and religious organization. The speaker will use two case studies, the results of an archaeological survey she has been conducting in Karnataka over the last several years (the Banavasi-Gudnapura Regional Survey Project) and second, an ongoing project examining historical and cartographic information contained in documents from the colonial period

 

 

Migration: A Moral Protest

Speaker: Prof. Gopal Guru, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly

 

Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development

 

(Collaboration: Anthropological Survey of India; Sage Publications; and Council for Social Development on the occasion of the Social Change Golden Jubilee)

 

 

(Collaboration: Toxics Link)

 

Decolonising Heritage in South Asia: The Global, the National and the Trans-national 
 

Edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray (Routledge, 2019)

 

Discussants: Dr. Uthara Suvrathan, who will introduce the book, Visiting Assistant Professor, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS; and Prof. Partho Datta, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC

 

BAPU  KI DILLI: WORDS IN THE GARDEN – A CELEBRATION OF LITERATURE, ARTS AND IDEAS

22 to 24 February 2019

 

Curated by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

The festival is a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary and to honour his life and ideology through plays, recitals, discussions and bhajans. The sessions will be based on the themes and their contemporary relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s quotes “be the change”, “non-violence”, “look at the sparrow” and “truth is God”

 

(Collaboration: Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti; and IILM)

 

CANCELLED

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Pentatonic Scales in Hindustani Music

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Subhadra Desai, well-known Hindustani classical vocalist. As a musician-academic, she has been engaged in performing, conducting lecture-demonstrations and workshops in India and abroad and has done extensive research on ancient Indian music

 

At the lecture, Dr. Desai will talk about Pentatonic scales in Hindustani music (Ragas of Audav Jati) and explain their typical nuances through live demonstrations and audio recordings

 

The Culture and Art of Family Photographs
 

Speakers: Elspeth Brown, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto, author of Work!: A Queer History of Modeling (forthcoming from Duke University Press); Deepali Dewan, Dan Mishra Curator of South Asian Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, editor of the special issue “Family Photography”, Trans Asian Photography Review (Fall 2018); Sarah Parsons, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, York University, co-editor of special issue “seeing Family,” Photography & Culture (Summer 2017); and Thy Phu, Associate Professor of English Studies, Western University, and Principle Investigator of the Family Camera Network project, author of Warring Visions of Vietnam (forthcoming from Duke University Press)

 

What are family photographs? How do they shape our memories? How do they meditate experiences of migration? What can they tell us about our national histories?

 

(Collaboration: The Alkazi Foundation for Arts)

 

GANDHI MATTERS

 

Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

Speaker: Professor Vinit Haksar who has taught Philosophy at the Universities of Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Oxford, UK.  Author of the recently published book: Gandhi and Liberalism: Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil (Routledge, India)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

Films from NHK World

 

Tsuruko’s Tea Journey (52 min; dvd; English)

In one form of the Japanese tea ceremony, the host serves traditional kaiseki cuisine, sake and finally tea to the guests. Established as an art form more than 4 centuries ago, one woman has decided to embark on a unique nationwide pilgrimage to immerse herself in the art. Tsuruko Hanzawa at 70 is a rare “catering chef” of tea ceremonies. Exploring a life devoted to tea, this documentary follows Tsuruko for 2 years as she battles illness to continue her pilgrimage

 

At 19:00

The Lost Hokusai (52 min; dvd; English)

In his last years, Katsushika Hokusai, world-renowned ukiyo-e artist, painted a final masterpiece. Destroyed by fire in 1923, the 3-metre work has now been recreated based on the only surviving image, a single early 20th century monochrome photograph

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan; and NHK World)