BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

The 21st Century: Geopolitics, Democracy and Peace

By Balmiki Prasad Singh (Oxon: Routledge, 2017)

 

Speakers: Shri H.K. Dua, Senior Journalist and former Rajya Sabha Member; Prof. S.D. Muni, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis; and Prof. Amrit Srinivasan, former Head, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi

 

Chair: Shri Jagmohan, former Governor, Jammu and Kashmir

 

Sculpt for Delhi

Installations and sculptures in bronze, wood and waste material

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 18:00 by Shri Anil Baijal, Lt. Governor of Delhi and Shri K.J. Alphons, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, Culture and Tourism

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Art Society)

Passionate Players

Launch of the book by Pran Nevile

 

The book will be released by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division

 

Followed by a concert

Songs that Never Die

By Dr. Radhika Chopra

 

(Collaboration: BOOKWISE, India)

The French Revolution, Napoleon, & the Jews

Speaker: Dr Michael Nutkiewicz, Professor of Jewish History, University of New Mexico, and served as Dean of the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies 

 

The French Revolution set out to establish a constitutional democracy for all inhabitants of France. Yet the authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen asked whether Jews should be included as free citizens. When Napoleon came to power he submitted twelve questions to Jewish leaders to judge whether Jews were "ready" to enter the modern world 

 

CREEDS OF OUR TIMES 

Curated by Rajiv Mehtrotra

 

Arts & the Mind with Lisa Kudrow (120 min; 2012; dvd; English)

Director: Leo Eaton

 

Arts & the Mind explores the vital role of the arts in human development across a lifetime. This two-part documentary shares stories of how music, dance, painting, poetry, and theatre markedly improve well-being at both ends of life, and reveals the cutting-edge science behind this positive impact. The film illuminates how the arts can improve children’s school performance and also heal children in hospitals and veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

VIDHI DIALOGUES

 

Economic Survey and Budget 2018 

Speakers: Dr Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to Government of India; and Mr. Arvind Datar, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court

 

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Studies)

 

Everyday Communalism: Riots in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh

A discussion and launch of the book by Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar 

 

The book will be released by Dr. Harish Khare, Editor-in-Chief, The Editor Tribune

Discussants: Professor Salil Misra, Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University; Ms Seema Chishti, Deputy Editor, The Indian Express; and Shri  Siddharth Varadarajan,  Founding Editor, The Wire

 

Chair: Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: Oxford University Press)

Ghalib ki Dilli: Words in the Garden – A Celebration of Literature, Arts and Ideas

 

24 and 25 February 2018

 

 

 

The second edition of ‘Words in the Garden’ – on the life and work of Mirza Ghalib

 

 

 

From 11:30 to 14:00 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

Film – Mirza Ghalib (140 min;1954; dvd; b/w; Hindi)

 

Produced and directed by Sohrab Modi

 

 

 

From 14:30 to 16:00 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

Play – Ghalib in New Delhi (90 min)

 

Presented by Pierrot’s Troupe, Delhi

 

Scripted & Directed by Dr. M. Sayeed Alam

 

 

 

From 17:00 to 18:15 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

Old Film Songs on Themes of the Festival

 

By Biswajit Bhattacharyya

 

 

 

From 18:30 to 19:30 at Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza

 

Zahraab Ugata Hai Mujhe

 

Inaugural session with Shamsur R. Faruqui, Ashok Vajpeyi, Pavan K. Varma and Najeeb Jung