Arts from the Banks of the Brahmaputra

Sattriya choreography with folk and tribal dances

By Guru Ranjumoni Saikia and the Sangeet Sattra Ensemble, Guwahati

 

Followed by

Bollywood Melodies of Bhupen Hazarika and Other Legends

By Sudip Basu, well-known composer and singer from Kolkata

 

 

 

Kalpatru, The Wishing Tree

Children's Puppet Theatre by Dadi D. Pudamjee

 

At 18:30

Ghalib In New Delhi

Presented by Pierrot's Troupe 

Written & directed by Dr. M. Sayeed Alam

 

(Collaboration: Pallavi Arts)

 

 

An Evening of  Poems and Memoirs

 

By Shailendra Shail from his latest collection of poems “Kavita Mein Sab Kuchh Sambhav” and his  memoirs 

Dr. Ganga Prasad Vimal will introduce his works

 

Chair: Shri Leeladhar Mandloi

 

Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

A presentation by Ashok Bhowmick, a senior renowned artist is also known as a “Master of Cross Hatching”; a multitalented individual and practicing artist and sculptor since more than four decades; writer and thinker whose scholarship revolves around gender issues. 

 

The presentation is aimed to bring before the audience the image of women in Indian paintings and also attempt to identify its manifestations in society. It will also discuss the voice of protest and resistance against such inequality by the progressive Indian painters heralded by painters like Amrita Sher-Gill and Rabindranath Tagore

 

(Collaboration:  Studio Abhyas and One Billion Rising) 

 

 

WHEN THE GODS BEGIN TO DANCE IN ANGKOR 

Architecture for the Dancing God: Hall with Dancers in the Jayavarman VII Temples.

Speaker: Dr. Swati Chemburkar

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

The spiritual power of dance in Cambodia has been valued since pre-Angkorian times, and plentiful images of dance and music in the bas-reliefs of the great monuments of Angkor suggest that this tradition was markedly enhanced in the reign of Jayavarman VII, as a contemporary Chinese report attests. Focusing on the ‘halls with dancers’, a distinct architectural feature of Jayavarman VII’s temples, the article explores the link between the architecture, associated inscriptions, dance and music rituals evolving in Angkor and contemporary Chola temples that housed several mandapas. The lecture argues that the architecture of the halls with dancers worked in tandem with ritual practices to provide a symbolic and possibly actual space for encountering divine

 

 

 

 

WHEN THE GODS BEGIN TO DANCE IN ANGKOR 

Brahmanical Masters of Ritual Dance: Temple Reliefs of India and Cambodia

 

Speaker: Dr. Swati Chemburkar, architectural historian and independent researcher, focusing on Southeast Asian art history, particularly of Cambodia. Presently she directs a post -graduate diploma on Southeast Asian Art and Architecture at Jnanapravaha, Mumbai along with lecturing at SOAS (London University) Southeast Asian diploma. She is the editor of Arts of Cambodia: Interactions with India, 2015 and has published articles on Southeast Asian monuments 

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

Dance research on India and Cambodia is been extensive but the scholarship is focused either on the archaeology or choreography of the dance. Very few Indian or Cambodian dance studies have traced the links between the visual depictions of the performers and their origins in the religious ritual practices. Based on the bas-reliefs and inscriptions, this lecture is a preliminary effort to throw some light on the systematic incorporation of Music and dance in the temple rituals by Pasupatas or Siddhas and their possible role in this form of temple worship 

 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search 

Protestant Spirit USA (50 mins)

In the 1100 churches of Indianopolis, there is a bewildering multiplicity of Prostestantism –churches with the deluxe seating and styling; services conducted with the professionalism of a television specular and congregations that occupy every seat at the four staggered services on Sunday.  The US church is booming and in some quarters it is big business

 

Hindusim: 330  Million Gods (52 mins)

Traces the Indian religious experience in two highly contrasting locations: the bustling city of Benares where millions come to bathe in the holy waters of the Ganges, and the small village of Bhith Bhagwanpur, unvisited except by professional story tellers and itinerant priests. The film looks at the Hindu approach to God

 

Films presented by Ronald Eyre

 

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

Launch of the IIC Quarterly Journal: Winter/Spring 2016 – 2017 

 

The Contemporary Urban Conundrum 

Edited by Sujata Patel, University of Hyderabad & Omita Goyal, Chief Editor, IIC Publications Division

 

Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC will release the Quarterly

 

Followed by a panel discussion

Panelists: Prof. Veena Oldenburg, Eminent historian, academic and feminist; Shri Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs; and Prof. K.T. Ravindran, Dean Emeritus, RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University

 

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany)