EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW 27 TO 31 OCTOBER 2018

 

Focus on Tripura

Curated by M.K. Pragya Deb Burman, Convener, Intach Tripura Chapter

 

Golden Namgey Lhatse

An exhibition of photographs on the monastic world of Tawang and the Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh

Photographs by Vinay Sheel Oberoi

 

Blurred Perimetres

Contemporary art by artists from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura

Curated by Wahida Ahmed, Easel Gallery, Guwahati

 

Unbroken Threads – Broadening Narratives

Exhibition of textiles along with demonstrations

Curated by Ms Sentila T. Yanger, Padma Shree, Tribal Weave

THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: 27 TO 31 OCTOBER 2018

 

NORTHEAST INDIA 

Focus on India’s Northeastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura

 

 

Jazz Concert

By Wolfgang Haffner and band from Germany – Wolfgang Haffner (drums); Ferdinand Kirner (guitar); Simon Oslender (piano); and Christian Diener (bass)

 

Wolfgang Haffner is one of Europe’s most prolific jazz drummers and composers. He has played with some of the best known German and international jazz musicians across generations

 

(Collaboration: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan)

An Evening with Shizuoka, the Land of Mt. Fuji

 

 

 

A Concert of Japanese drums and songs

 

Performance by Sugiyama Shigeo, Hatada Toshikatu and party

 

 

 

Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony

 

 

 

Traditional Enka and Minyo Songs

 

Presented by Sarbjit Singh Chadha, well-known television artist from Japan and the first non-Japanese enka singer

 

 

 

(Collaboration: SWYAA-India; and I.J. Kakehashi)  

Concert

By Anete Graudina on the violin

Accompanied by Niklas Oldemeier on the piano

 

The artists will present a concert of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Darzins and Krisler

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Round Table on Karl Marx

Speakers: Professor Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Professor Dhruv Raina, Philosopher and Historian of Science, JNU; Professor Ajay Verma, Philosopher, JNU; Professor Irfan Habib, historian of science and modern political history

 

Organized and moderated by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor-Vice Dean at O.P. Jindal Global University

 

For over a century the fate of Marx’s thought was tied to that of Marxism. Even today, three decades after the fall of the Soviet empire, many still blame Marx for the cruel atrocities that happened around the world in the name of Marxism. But despite what happened in the past hundred years in the communist countries, Marx remains an important thinker and a central figure of the modern canon around the world. In other words, he should be read closely, with precision and patience. But now that the statues of Marx were torn down bitterly and indistinctively as those of Lenin and Stalin, what really remains of him for future generations of readers? This is a critical question that will be discussed by a panel of distinguished scholars gathered at the India International Centre. This round-table is organized with the participation of Jindal Global University

 

(Collaboration: O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat)

20,000 Miles Across Arunachal Pradesh 

Speakers: Ajai Shukla, former military officer and columnist for the Business Standard on strategic affairs; and Sonia Shukla, former journalist and presently with the Institute of Chinese Studies 

 

In a talk illustrated with photographs, Ajai and Sonia Shukla will share their experience of a yearlong research stay in Arunachal Pradesh, and of several subsequent visits to that border state. It began in 2008 with a research project that required 20,000 miles of driving up and down the five major river valleys that comprise the state. From the 15,000-foot high Bumla Pass on the Sino-Indian border, to the implausibly beautiful Mechuka and Ziro, to Kibithu – the eastern tip of India where the sun rises on the cub-continent – they talked to locals to reconstruct an oral account of how the British-era “excluded area” of the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) evolved into an Indian state

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Kama: The Riddle of Desire

By Gurcharan Das (Gurgaon: Penguin Random House, 2018)

 

Discussants: Prof. Malashri Lal, Professor of English, University of Delhi; Prof. Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor Emeritus (Literature), IIT Delhi; and Ms Poonam Saxena, The Hindustan Times

 

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh

 

ICS-IIC Roundtable on China in the Indian Ocean: Evolving Doctrine, Presence and Prospects
 

Speakers: Cmde. Gopal Suri; Vice-Admiral Pradeep Chauhan; Vice-Admiral Anil Chopra; and Ambassador Ashok K. Kantha

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)