Seminar on Women Performers of the 16th – 20th Century

Indian history of Tawaifs and Baijis of North India. The seminar will address the issues of gender discrimination in performing arts and how it shapes the art for the future, their lives and their contribution to Indian music and dance

 

Conceptualised and Curated by Manjari Chaturvedi

 

AT 19:00 IN THE FOUNTAIN LAWNS

Uff Malka Jaan and the Velvet Courtesans!

Presented by Manjari Chaturvedi with Fouzia Dastango, and Neesha Singh

 

(Collaboration: Sufi Kathak Foundation)

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Regulatory Reforms for Meeting India’s Needs for Human Resources in Healthcare in India

Speaker: Dr. V.K. Paul, Member, NITI Aayog

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

 

Second in a new series of lectures on Healthcare in India

 

 

Portraiture

An exhibition of photographs – portraits by Dushyant Mehta; Yaman Navlakha; and Buzz Burza

 

Preview on Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Samvedana)

 

CULTURE AND HERITAGE
 

Coordinated by Amita Beig

 

Qutb Shahi Heritage Park

Illustrated lecture by Ratish Nanda, Projects Director, Agha Khan Trust for Culture
Chair: Shri Ram Rehman

 

Ratish Nanda will speak about the restoration project of the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park, the largest necropolis in the world, situated at the foot of the majestic Golconda Fort, Hyderabad. The Qutb Shahi Heritage Park has 72 monuments including mausoleums spread over 108 acres

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Broadway Musicals in Tune with our not so Simple Times

Illustrated lecture by Nicholas Hoffland

 

Nicholas Hoffland is a design and writing resource, business communicator, art curator, music resource and cook. He enjoys sharing golden-age Indian classical music, Western classical music, jazz, classic rock and old-time Hindi film music with different forums across India

 

 

Divine play (lila) in West and East. Reflections upon the Theory of Creation

Speaker: Prof. Douglas Hedley, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

The Iconography of Pashupata Cult in Cambodia

Illustrated lecture by Shivani Kapoor, independent researcher; her area of focus is the art history of pre-Angkorian Cambodia and teaches on a Post Graduate Certificate Course on Southeast Asian Art and Architecture at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray
 

The lecture looks at the representation of ascetic figures in Khmer iconography in order to understand their religious antecedents. Although Cambodian epigraphy attests to the presence of ascetics of the Pasupata sect in the Khmer domain, situating them against the backdrop of the Saivite kingdoms that existed in Southeast Asia from roughly the 6th to the 13th century, it is difficult to find iconographic evidence to substantiate their presence.

 

In order to understand the ascetic imagery which occurs in profusion in the period coinciding with the presence of the Pasupata tradition in Cambodia, the speaker examines the development of the iconography of Lakulisa (act. 2nd century), acknowledged as the founder of this religious tradition, in the Indic sphere and its probable influence on the iconography of the ascetic figures in Cambodian sculptures and reliefs, with specific attention to the badly eroded image of one such ascetic figure at the temple complex of Sambor Prei Kuk (N-11, northern group of temples) 

 

Multilingualism as a Stimulus to Islamic Literary Theory
 

Speaker: Prof. Rebecca Ruth Gould, Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, and Director, ‘Global Literary Theory: Caucasus Literatures Compared’

 

Discussants: Harish Trivedi; Chandra Mohan; and Anisur Rahman

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division

 

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division; and Comparative Literature Association of India)

 

Narayan Desai’s Gandhi Katha: 15 to 20 March 2019

Screening of 10 DVDs over 6 days

Executive Producer: Suhas Borker

 

Presentation of the set of 10 DVDs to Shri N. N. Vohra, President IIC 

 

Contemporizing Katha Form: Dr Varsha Das, Writer and Art Critic

 

Reinventing Katha as a Political Idiom: Dr. Ashis Nandy, Political Psychologist, Sociologist and Futurist

 

The screening commemorates 150 years of the birth anniversary of Mohanadas Karamchand Gandhi and 15 years of Gandhi Katha. The Gandhi Katha was started by Narayan Desai in 2004 as a reparative act of creating non-violence after the violence in Gujarat in 2002. Narayan Bhai took the Gandhi Katha across India and abroad till he passed away in 2015. The Gandhi Katha is an amazing opportunity to relive the incredible times of India's freedom struggle. Kathas have been an age old communication form in India. Narayan Bhai completely revolutionised this ancient art form by making it contemporary and relevant to our times. The DVDs capture Narayan Bhai's inimitable style  of  vibrant and earthy storytelling as he reads, enacts, recreates from his four-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi - Maru Jivan Ej Mari Vani (My Life is My Message) (2004), translated into English (Orient BlackSwan, 2009) interspersed with live bhajans sung by students of Sardar Patel School.

The 15 hours recording of this set of DVDs was done during the Gandhi Katha held at the Gandhi King Memorial Plaza - IIC in November 2010

 

Kindly please make a note of the dates, venues and timings for the screenings

Saturday, 16th March - Lecture Room I from 18.00 - 20.00  

Sunday, 17th March - Seminar Rooms I to III from 17.00 - 20.00

Monday, 18th March - Lecture Room I from 17.00 - 20.00 

Tuesday, 19th March - Lecture Room I from 17.00 - 20.00

Wednesday, 20th March - Seminar Rooms I to III from 17.00 - 20.00 

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies; and CFTV Public Service Communications)