TASTING INDIA: FARM TO TABLE

A two-day knowledge exchange to promote a global dialogue on India’s gastronomic heritage and culinary tourism potential, the country’s wealth and diversity, and farm-to-table innovations

 

Curated by Sourish Bhattacharyya and Sanjoo Malhotra, Founder Directors, Tasting India Symposium

 

Lead speakers include on 14 DECEMBER 2017 AT 12:00 – Dr. Colleen Taylor Sen, author of Fasts and Feasts: A Food History of India and Dr. Gita Ramesh, Joint Managing-Director, Kairali

 

The Russian Revolution: Storms Across a Century, 1917-2017

Launch of a book by Dr. Achala Moulik, former Education secretary, Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, Additional Chief Secretary, Karnataka and recipient of the Sergey Yessenin Prize (2013) for her contribution to Russian Literature 

 

Discussion: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution – Impact on Geopolitics Today

Keynote Address: His Excellency Mr Nikolay Kudashev, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India

 

Speakers : Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar ; Dr Hari Vasudevan, Professor of Russian History at University of Calcutta;  Ambassador Ranjit Gupta, IFS (Retd); Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, author and journalist; Shri Manish Purohit, publisher and historian; and Achala Moulik, author

 

Sublime Forms - II

An exhibition of recent mixed media works by Hemavathy Guha from Delhi

 

Preview on Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 18:00

 

The artist will demonstrate her techniques, materials on 16 December 2017 at 12:00 noon

Gallery walk through by the artist on 17 December 2017 at 17:00

 

Upheavals in Saudi Arabia: Implications for the Desert Kingdom and West Asian Security

Speaker: Ambassador Talmiz Ahmed, former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

The two-year reign of King Salman bin Abdulaziz in Saudi Arabia has over-turned many of the well-established principles on the basis of  which the kingdom has functioned for the last several decades, which have imparted both continuity and resilience to the Saudi political order. Now, the king has placed full powers, political, economic and military, in the hands of his young son, 32-year old Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has also become the crown prince after ousting two senior family members. However, the purge of senior royals and their detention, along with scores of senior officials and business persons, on 3 November, is extraordinary by any yardstick, and portends grave domestic and regional uncertainty in coming months

 

WINTER FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND MUSIC: 12 AND 13 DECEMBER 2017

 

13 December: An Evening of Dance

 

18:00  

Sattriya Recital

By Lima Das from Guwahati, disciple of Guru Jatin Goswami 

 

At 19:00  

Kathak Recital

By Moumala Nayak from Delhi, disciple of Pt Birju Maharaj

 

WINTER FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND MUSIC: 12 AND 13 DECEMBER 2017

 

12 December: An Evening of Hindustani Music

 

18:00   

Sitar Recital

By  Kalyan Majumdar from Kolkata, son and disciple of  Shri Subhajit  Majumdar  

 

At 19:00  

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Avinash Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Pt Tushar Dutt, Ustad Aftab Ahmed Khan and Pt Somnath Mardur

 

My House is a Le Corbusier 

An illustrated talk by Mr. Cristian Chironi, an artist from Italy

Chair: Mr. Andrea Baldi, Director, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre

 

Following a series of residences and encounters in structures by Le Corbusier in Italy, France and Argentina, Cristian Chironi with My House is a Le Corbusier, took up temporary residence at the Pierre Jeanneret House Museum in Chandigarh.  My house is a Le Corbusier (begun in 2015), is intended to evolve over the long term and culminate in the totality of all the experiences that Chironi will undergo while actually living for variable periods of time in the many homes designed by Le Corbusier around the world. The long-term project (which will unfold over the potential arc of 30 habitable homes by Corbusier in 12 countries) is a performance, stretched out over time, house after house

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

 

Sangin Beg: Sair-ul-Manazil

Release and discussion on Sair ul Manazil written in the 1820s.  The original was written in Persian by a person known as Sangin Beg. Translation into English by the late Nausheen Jaffery and edited and introduced by Swapna Liddle

 

Speakers: Professor Amar Farooqui; Shri Sohail Hashmi; Dr. Swapna Liddle and others

Moderator: Prof. Azizuddin Husain , Jamia Millia Islamia

 

The book is the first attempt to systematically list the monuments of the city of Delhi. Apart from public buildings like mosques, temples, shrines and tombs, it lists wells, gardens, houses, shops and stray graves. This was in itself a formidable task, and one that might easily have resulted in a very dry and tedious document. The author, however, considerably enlivens it by a description of the various localities of the city, of the people who lived and worked there in his time, social activities and fairs, and historical anecdotes connected with places and people 

 

(Collaboration: Tulika Books)

 

Aribam Syam Sharma (28 min; 2006; dvd; English)

Director: Gurumayum Nirmal Sharma

 

The film will be introduced by Somendrajit Naorem

 

Film on Aribam Syam Sharma, arguably the most accomplished filmmaker in Manipur and a leading figure in Indian cinema. A recipient of the Padma Shri, his body of work includes features as well as documentary films that have received critical international acclaim

 

Following the screening, there will be a talk on

 

Aribam Syam Sharma and Cinema in Manipur

Speaker: Somendrajit Naorem, Lecturer in History, Kha Manipur College, Manipur who is presenting working on his PhD thesis Demystifying the Cinematic Encounter in Northeast India: An Experience from Manipur

 

Release of Centre for Women’s Development Studies’ 2018 calendar Women at the Midnight Hour

Based on rare archival photographs, the calendar focuses on two women members of the Constituent Assembly, Dakshayani Velayudhan and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Release of the calendar by Meera Velayudhan, daughter of Dakshayani Velayudhan and Manjari Mehta, granddaughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Recollection of the Midnight Hour, August, 14-15, 1947 

Speakers:  Aparna Basu and Sharada Nayak,will speak briefly of their recollections of the Midnight Hour,  August 14-15, 1947

 

Importance of Women in the National Movement

Speaker: Subhashini Ali, granddaughter of  Ammu Swaminathan, another member of the Constituent Assembly

 

(Centre for Women’s Development Studies)