FRIDAY 20 AND SATURDAY 21

CHITHIRAI  MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

Flute Recital

By G. Raghuraman from Delhi, disciple of Dr. N. Ramani

 

Accompanist: Delhi R Sridhar on violin & M.V. Chander Shekar on mridangam

 

Rroma – The Forgotten Children of India

Speaker: Prof. Marcel Courthiade, Professor and Head of the Rromani Studies Section, Department of South Asian Languages, INALCO, Paris-City Sorbonne and Commissioner for Language and Linguistic Rights, International Rromani Union

 

Chair: Ms Punita Singh

 

The talk will present the discovery/rediscovery of the Indian origin, ideological negation of this origin and of any Rromani identity, heritage, culture: the welfare syndrome; and perspectives of Indo-Rromani relationship

 

(Collaboration: Centre of Indology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan) 

 

Post Independence Architecture of Delhi – World Monuments Fund Watch Day

 

Post Independence Architecture of Delhi

Illustrated lecture by Kaiwan Mehta

 

Followed by a panel discussion

 

(Collaboration: World Monuments Fund; and INTACH, Delhi Chapter)

 

Our Lives

An exhibition of photographs by NatsukoTominaga

 

Leprosy is one of the world’s oldest diseases. Although completely curable today, the age-old stigma attached to leprosy continues to have an impact on people’s lives. India accounts for over 60 percent of annual new cases of the disease and is home to around 800 self-settled leprosy colonies. Our Lives introduces residents of four such colonies and their experience of leprosy. It also features photographs of persons affected by leprosy in 40 other countries and invites viewers to pause and dwell on what it means to live

 

(Collaboration: The Nippon Foundation; and Sasakawa-India Leprosy Foundation)

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

ART MATTERS

Mrinal Pande, Geetanjali Shree and Geetashree on the Hindi Novel Today

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

IDiscussion  ■ Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex at 18:00

 

IIC Quarterly Release: Winter 2017 – Spring 2018

 

 

 

South Asia’s Sporting Mosaic

 

Edited by Ronojoy Sen and Omita Goyal

 

 

 

Release by Dr. Karan Singh

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion with eminent sportspersons, academics and journalists

 

Panelists: Suprita Das, formerly Assistant Sports Editor, NDTV and author of Shadow Fighter – A Biography of Indian Boxer, Sarita Devi; Vinod Rai, distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore; and Ashis Nandy, Senior Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

Music in/of Kathak

 

Kathak is the only form of dance which is immediately associated with nritta. Music in Kathak has rarely been a subject of serious discourse. The noted Kathak exponent, Smt Prerana Shrimali in her presentation will elucidate according to her understanding, application, and experience of music in/of kathak.

 

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Harappans in the Ganga Valley: New Discoveries

Speaker: Dr. Bhuvan Vikrama, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

The Harappan presence in the east of Yamuna has been attested at Alamgirpur (Baghpat) and at Hulas (Saharanpur), however, with an admixture of local or regional cultural elements, it represents a diluted form of the Harappans or its rural manifestation with no urban signatures. Recent, discovery of a large collection of copper objects from Harinagar (Bijnor) and a small scale excavation at Sakatpur (Saharanpur) yielding the copper hoard implements with Harappan artefacts has brought us to a point where a rethink of the Harappan presence in Yamuna-Ganga doab and beyond becomes imperative. The present talk will focus on the Harappan evidences found in this region and will discuss their significance and relevance