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)

The Seven Cities of Delhi: Untold Stories
 

Talks and discussions led by Dr. Harsh Pathak

The Latin Guitar

Guitar music from Spain and Latin America – classical guitar recital by Santanu Datta

 

The artist will present a programme of works by Leo Brouwer; Emilio Pujol; Francisco Tárrega; Heitor Villa-Lobos; Isaac Albéniz; and Joaquin Turina

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Poetry in India and Foreign Landscapes

Readings from Sediments of Silence by Mohammad Hasan; and Scattered Rays by Poonam Surie

 

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

 

Prof. Mohammad Hasan has taught at the Universities of Jodhpur and Nairobi; a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays scholarship and British Council Fellowship, Prof. Hasan has been a member of the academic Council and Board Studies of various universities

 

Poonam Surie, poet and author; her first book of poems Dancing on a Moonbeam was published in 2003; Scattered Rays is her latest book of poems published in 2017

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society of India)

 

 

A Tribute to K.L. Saigal and His Immortal Songs

An audio-visual presentation; tribute by Shalini Bhargava

 

Followed by Ghazals

Presented by D.R. Gaurav Sood

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)

Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest times to the Sixth Century

A discussion based on Professor  Naman P. Ahuja’s book, published by Ashmolean Museum: Oxford, 2018

Professor of Indian Art and Architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the co-Editor of Marg Publications, Mumbai, Prof. Ahuja was Research Fellow in the Ashmolean’s Department of Eastern Art from 2002 to 2004

 

Followed by a discussion with Prof. Romila Thapar , Emerita Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Deborah Swallow, Marit Rausing Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art

 

How was the Ashmolean Museum’s rich and representative collection of the art and archaeology of the Indian subcontinent formed? Largely assembled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its important holdings of the formative periods of Indian art up to AD 600 are fully presented in this book for the first time. In this talk, Professor Ahuja will lead us through the highlights of the collection. The strength of the Ashmolean’s collection lies in its everyday objects in terracotta or other materials, such as the pots that people used, their small votive offerings, children’s toys or talismanic charms. This lecture provides a vivid insight into the art and material culture of South Asia from the Stone Age to the early post-Gupta period

 

(Collaboration: Oxford and Cambridge Society of India)

 

The Needle Reverence

A story stitched by the thrift of Bengali women

 

An exhibition of Kanthas from the late 19th century till pre-independence; and contemporary Kantha created in the 1990s initiated by the renowned sculptor, the late Meera Mukherjee 

 

From the collection of Siddhartha Tagore and Mahesh Naithani; Meera Mukherjee’s kanthas from the collection of Dolly Narang

 

Inauguration by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran historian on Indian textiles on Wednesday, 3 April 2019 at 17:30

 

Organised to honour the memory of Smt Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

 

(Collaboration: MATI – Management of Art Treasures of India; with the support of Art Konsult; The Village Gallery; and Art & Deal Magazine)