Evolving Identities – Masters of Bengal

An exhibition of drawings and paintings tracing the development and evolution of modern art practices

On view are original works by Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Binode Bihari Mukherjee, Ram Kinkar Baij, Jamini Roy, Asit Haldar, L.M. Sen and others

 

The exhibition also includes some Kalighat paintings

Curator: Vijay Kowshik

Co-Curator: Vaibhavi Kowshik

 

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Life Trustee IIC and Chairperson, IIC International Research Division on Monday, 18 December 2017 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Arts Glacerhi)

DELHI MATTERS – TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

 

Coming Face to Face with a Medical Emergency in Delhi and the NCR

Speakers: Shri P. Kamaraj, Special Commissioner, Delhi Police on The Management of Medical Emergencies with Modern Technology: Lessons Learnt from 100; Dr. Tamorish Kole, Chairman, Institute of Emergency Medicine, VPS Rockland Hospitals, Delhi NCR on First Responses: Doing Your Part – 5 Golden Rules; Dr. M.C. Misra, former Director and Emeritus Professor, AIIMS; President cum Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Jaipur on Warning Signals, Preventive Strategies – What Those at Risk Need to Know; and Shri Suhaan Mukerji, Legal Advisor to Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and Principal Draftsman of the New Motor Vehicles’ Act on Improving Mobility/Access Issues in Traffic and Transport

 

Chair: Smt Shailaja Chandra, former Chief Secretary, Delhi

 

Japan-India Relations – History and Perspective (in Hindi)

Speaker: Professor Tomio  Mizokami, Professor of Indian Language, Osaka University, Japan

 

Chair: Dr. Vedpratap Vaidik

 

The lecture is about the history of Japan-India Relations from the arrival of Buddhism (6th Century) to PM Abe's recent visit to India and to think about the perspective in Hindi. The speaker will touch all important historical incidents – political, economical and cultural – in brief and show the 10 minutes of Hindi film related to the life of Subhas Chandra Bose. Though most of the contents are known to the Japanese intellectuals, but not necessarily to the Indian intellectuals

 

And they Made Classics (59 min; 2017; dvd; English)

Directed by Ratnottama Sengupta who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A journey beyond the screens into the making of Devdas, Sujata, Bandini…Nabendu Ghosh shared a unique bonding with his “film guru”, Bimal Roy. In 1951, when the celluloid master left Kolkata to make Maa for Bombay Talkies, he took the litterateur with him forging a partnership to bring stories to life through films. Ratnottama Sengupta revisits the stories in this Centennial Tribute to Nabendu Ghosh, the writer’s art and his contribution in moulding New Indian Cinema

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Readings by Vivek Narayanan, I. Allan Sealy and Bei Dao

 

All readings will be in the original language and in English translation

 

(Collaboration: Almost Island)

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Launch of Argentinian novelist Sergio Chejfec's book, Baroni: A Journey, published by Almost Island

 

Readings by Sergio Chejfec, Sharmistha Mohanty and Mohammed Bennis

 

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Readings by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Mangalesh Dabral and Joy Goswami

The Light of the Moon

Illustrated talk by Pawo Choyning Dorji, a photographer from Bhutan, who has spent the past 3 years as retracing Xuanzang’s journey across the ancient Silk Road

 

Introduction: Dzongskar Khyentse Rinpoche, a renowned Film maker and foremost Buddhist teacher

 

Xuanzang’s (602-664 CE) epic 18-year pilgrimage to India, is one of the most celebrated journeys in the history of mankind. The Light of the Moon, is an on-going project and in this lecture, it  takes us on a visual journey through the ancient corridors of the silk roads, through the valleys of Bamiyan, and the hidden lands of the Karakoram

 

(Collaboration: Deer Park Institute)

ART MATTERS

Satyasheel Deshpande on music and musicians

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

TASTING INDIA FARM TO TABLE

 

Lead speakers at 10:30 - Smt Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development

 

AT 14:30 – Shri Pawan Aggarwal, CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India 

 

AT 16:30 - Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog