CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Music Instinct – Science & Song (120 min; 2009; dvd; English)

Director: Elena Mannes

 

Anyone who has been mesmerised by a Bach melody, stirred to dance by a rock rhythm, or taken back in time by the notes of a pop tune from their past, knows the power of music. The film provides ground-breaking explorations into how and why the human organism is moved by the undeniable effect of music, and the deep connection between music and our bodies and brains

 

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

 

Dancers All…Dimensions Beyond the Performative – Gimpses. Conversations. Interactions

With Dr. Sunil Kothari – There is Dance. Therefore I AM

Smt Leela Venkataraman – Dancing in the Word

Shri Avinash Pasricha – The Rapture of Rasa in 2D

 

Celebrating Dr. Sunil Kothari, Smt Leela Venkataraman and Shri Avinash Pasricha and the vastness of their lives in dance

 

(Collaboration: Sudhaaya Dance Foundation; and Interface Media)

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Technology and International Relations

By Bhaskar Balakrishnan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017)

 

Panelists: Ambassador Balakrishnan, former Ambassador of India to Greece, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic; and Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC and former Foreign Secretary

 

Chair: Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India 

 

Transformed by Travel: Historical Journeys in High Asia

Illustrated lecture by Shri Ravi Bhoothalingam

 

Chair: Dr. Manosi Lahiri

 

Strong convictions or emotional attachments are rarely altered through logical argument. But intense experiences – such as travel in remote and forbiddingly enchanting terrain – can change mind-sets and even personality. The illustrated presentation shows how the journeys of Kumarajiva, Xuan Zang, Francis Younghusband and Nicholas Roerich in Tibet, Central Asia, Mongolia and India, transformed them and influences their legacy for future generations

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan)

 

PURANDARDASA TYAGRAJA MUSIC FESTIVAL                    

 

Vandey Sathguru Purandaradasa

An illustrated lecture by Dr. K. Vageesh

 

Followed by 

Vocal Recital

By D. Vamsi Krishna

Accompanist: Delhi R. Sridhar on vilolin and  Elanthoor Jayan P Das on mridangam

 

(Collaboration: Ramakrishnapuram South Indian Society)

 

PURANDARDASA TYAGRAJA MUSIC FESTIVAL                    

 

Vocal Recital

By  Anjana Thirumalai 

Accompanists: G. Raghavendra Prasath  on violin and Kumbakonam  N. Padmanaban on mridangam

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Mysore as a Seat of Music: 1850-1947

A quick run through of the history of Indian classical music, dance, theatre and the contribution of the royal kingdom of Mysore

 

Illustrated lecture by Veejay Sai, award-winning writer, editor and culture critic 

Chameli Devi Jain Award 2017

For an Outstanding Woman Journalist

 

Followed by

B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture

 

Chief Justice: First Among Equals

Speaker: Justice Shri Ajit Prakash Shah, former Chairman, 20th Law Commission of India and former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court

 

Free Speech in India

Presentation by Steven Butler, Asia Programme Coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists

 

(Organised by The Media Foundation)

 

 

Water Birds – An Index of Wetland Health

Photographs by Dr. K. A. Ramachandran, avid bird watcher and photographer

 

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