Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)

Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan

 

A documentary about Mohiniattam, a classical dance of Kerala 

 

To be introduced by Shri Veejay Sai, performing arts critic

 

 

Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)

A play based on Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography, Kaghazi hai Pairahan, and other stories

 

Written and directed by Noor Zaheer and presented by Brechtian Mirror and Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

 

The play explores Ismat Chughtai (1915 -1991), the writer, the individual, the person and the woman and bringing them all together in a collage puts across the times, the courage and the depth of social understanding that produced a story teller of the calibre of Ismat Chughtai

 

 

THURSDAY 29

 

PERFORMANCE  ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM  AT 18:30

 

A play based on Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography, Kaghazi hai Pairahan, and other stories

 

Written and directed by Noor Zaheer and presented by Brechtian Mirror and Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

 

The play explores Ismat Chughtai (1915 -1991), the writer, the individual, the person and the woman and bringing them all together in a collage puts across the times, the courage and the depth of social understanding that produced a story teller of the calibre of Ismat Chughtai

 

 

 

 

 

The Mothers of Manipur – Twelve Women Who Made History

By Teresa Rehman (New Delhi: Zubaan, 2017)

 

Discussants: Dr. Lianboi Vaiphei, Professor, Political Science Department, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi; Ms. Pamela Phillipose, Editor, The Wire; ; Dr. Seema Kazi, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (T)

 

Chair: Ms. Preeti Gill, Editor & Literary Agent

 

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

La Sylphide (62 min; dvd)

August Bournonville’s ballet in two acts

The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen

The Danish Orchestra; Conductor: Poul J?rgensen

With Lis Jeppesen, Nikolaj Hübbe, Sorella Englund, Morten Munksdorf

 

Praful Bidwai  Memorial Award

Presentation of the Award 

Followed by a lecture by Dr. Satyajit Rath, Senior Researcher and former faculty, National Institute of Immunology

 

(Collaboration: Praful Bidwai Memorial Committee)

 

Rustic Folk of India – A Humble Tribute!

 

Runki  Goswami  will travel through the myriad of rustic folk in India from North to South. These folk songs are still relevant  and is sung as a tradition in the states of India

 

A trained Hindustani classical singer, Runki Goswami   has been a music director with the Telugu film industry and is known for her contribution in regional films 

 

The  accompanists – Virender Singh on rhythms, Saif Ali Khan and Hemanth Juyal on guitar

 

Mein Aur Mera Samay

By Smt  Chitra Mudgal, former Member, Prasar Bharati Board and  Central  Board of Film Certification. She has been a professor at  SNDT University, Mumbai for a number of years

 

She is one of the leading literary figures of modern Hindi literature. Two of her novels Avaan and Nala Sopara Post Box No.203 and numerous short stories have received critical acclaim. Her work has been published in major literary magazines of Hindi and extensively translated in other languages. She is a recipient of several awards including Indu Sharma Samman and Vyas Samman by the Birla Foundation

 

(Collaboration: Indian Society for Authors)

 

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Giuseppe Verdi: Aida (158 min; 1989; dvd; English subtitles)

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor: James Levine

 

With Dimitri Kavrakos, Dolora Zajick, Aprile Millo, Plácido Domingo

 

The Edge of an Era

 

Launch  of the non-fiction book The Edge of an Era (Juggernaut Books, 2017) by Italian journalist and novelist Carlo Pizzati, who will be in conversation with journalist and novelist  Manu Joseph 

 

Introduction: Parth Mehrotra, non-fiction editor, Juggernaut Books 

 

The Edge of an Era is a collection of three interviews with critical theorist Homi Bhabha, philosopher John Gray and essayist Pankaj Mishra about the return of barbarism, the threat to cosmopolitan identity, the rise of nationalism, the many failures of globalization, the increasing challenges of technocracy and the crisis of neoliberal elites 

 

(Collaboration: Juggernaut Books and Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)