Japan-India Relations – History and Perspective (in Hindi)

Speaker: Professor Tomio  Mizokami, Professor of Indian Language, Osaka University, Japan

 

Chair: Dr. Vedpratap Vaidik

 

The lecture is about the history of Japan-India Relations from the arrival of Buddhism (6th Century) to PM Abe's recent visit to India and to think about the perspective in Hindi. The speaker will touch all important historical incidents – political, economical and cultural – in brief and show the 10 minutes of Hindi film related to the life of Subhas Chandra Bose. Though most of the contents are known to the Japanese intellectuals, but not necessarily to the Indian intellectuals

 

And they Made Classics (59 min; 2017; dvd; English)

Directed by Ratnottama Sengupta who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A journey beyond the screens into the making of Devdas, Sujata, Bandini…Nabendu Ghosh shared a unique bonding with his “film guru”, Bimal Roy. In 1951, when the celluloid master left Kolkata to make Maa for Bombay Talkies, he took the litterateur with him forging a partnership to bring stories to life through films. Ratnottama Sengupta revisits the stories in this Centennial Tribute to Nabendu Ghosh, the writer’s art and his contribution in moulding New Indian Cinema

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Readings by Vivek Narayanan, I. Allan Sealy and Bei Dao

 

All readings will be in the original language and in English translation

 

(Collaboration: Almost Island)

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Launch of Argentinian novelist Sergio Chejfec's book, Baroni: A Journey, published by Almost Island

 

Readings by Sergio Chejfec, Sharmistha Mohanty and Mohammed Bennis

 

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Readings by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Mangalesh Dabral and Joy Goswami

The Light of the Moon

Illustrated talk by Pawo Choyning Dorji, a photographer from Bhutan, who has spent the past 3 years as retracing Xuanzang’s journey across the ancient Silk Road

 

Introduction: Dzongskar Khyentse Rinpoche, a renowned Film maker and foremost Buddhist teacher

 

Xuanzang’s (602-664 CE) epic 18-year pilgrimage to India, is one of the most celebrated journeys in the history of mankind. The Light of the Moon, is an on-going project and in this lecture, it  takes us on a visual journey through the ancient corridors of the silk roads, through the valleys of Bamiyan, and the hidden lands of the Karakoram

 

(Collaboration: Deer Park Institute)

ART MATTERS

Satyasheel Deshpande on music and musicians

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

TASTING INDIA FARM TO TABLE

 

Lead speakers at 10:30 - Smt Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development

 

AT 14:30 – Shri Pawan Aggarwal, CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India 

 

AT 16:30 - Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog

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