Presented by the Terra Guitar Quartet – Xavier Jara from USA; Jihyung Park from South Korea; Pedro Rocha from Brazil; and Madhavan Somanathan from India

 

The artists will present a concert of works by Vivaldi, Dyens, Bellinati, Brower, Rimsky-Korsakov and Knippel

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

 

 

 

Dv?ravat? Buddhist Art and Culture of Thailand: Between Tradition and Innovation

Speaker: Mr. Nicolas Revire

 

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

 

 

 

 

Facts and Fiction: The Myth of Suvannabh?mi and the Advent of Buddhism in Mainland Southeast Asia 

Speaker: Mr. Nicolas Revire, lecturer in French at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand) since 2003. He has completed a doctoral degree at the Université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle in France. He specializes in the Buddhist art and archaeology of South and Southeast Asia with a research focus on pre-modern Thailand. He is general editor of a collective volume titled Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology (Bangkok, 2014)

 

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

 

 

 

Why and How to Replace vilayati keekar with Native Trees in the Delhi Ecosystem?

Lead presentation: Prof. C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), School of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi

Discussants: Dr. M. Shah Hussain, Scientist-in-Charge, Aravalli Biodiversity Park; and Dr. Faiyaz A. Khudsar, Scientist-in-Charge, Yamuna Biodiversity Park

 Chair: Suhas Borker, founder  Member, Green Circle of Delhi

In the early 1920s the British brought to Delhi, many tree species that were native to Mexico and which monopolised sunlight and water – virtually killing any competition from native trees. Now a 100 years later, ecologists and botanists have been working hard to find ways to remove one such tree species – vilayati keeker (prosopis juliflora), which has killed almost all other native trees in the forest and wiped out biodiversity in the Ridge area. The Ridge area is spread over an area of 7,777 hectares and more than 80 per cent land is covered by vilayati keekar. Even the 90 acres of Lodhi Garden has a proliferation of this species

The discussion commemorates 25 years of the Green Circle of Delhi

 

 

 

 

Temsuyanger Longkumer, London based multimedia artist from Nagaland will exhibit his latest time based work, and a group of portraits from the series Superstars, Portraits of Remarkable People I have Met

 

Preview on Friday, 7th April 2017 at 18:30

 

 

 

At 6:00 pm

Kathak Group Recital 

By Manjari Kiran from Jaipur, disciple of Smt Rohini Bhate, Smt Sanjeevini Kulkarni and Shri Haider Sheikh.  Manjari will be accompanied by her own disciples –  Pallavi Pareek, Aditi Sharma and  Anjana Pillai

 

At 7:00 pm

 

Kathakali Recital

Cleopatra – The Last Pharaoh of Egypt in Kathakali Stree Vesham – An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra by Prabal Gupta from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Sri Sadanam Balakrishnan

 

 

Spring Festival of Dance and Music: An evening of Music

 

At 6:00pm 

 

Sarod Recital 

By Apurba Banerjee from Kolkata, disciple of Shri Anirban Ghosh and Pt. Partho Sarathi Chowdhury

 

At 7:00 pm

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital  

By Vivek Bhola from Delhi, disciple of Pt.  Madhup Mudgal

 

India & Lithuania: A Personal Bond

Welcome address by H.E. Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, Ambassador of Lithuania

Release of the book India & Lithuania: A Personal Bond

 

Guest of Honour: Edita Mildažyt?, renowned Lithuanian journalist and social worker

 

Talks: Gandhi and Kallenbach: The Unique Relationship

Speaker: Anil Nauriya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

 

Antanas Poška and His Incredible Indian Journey

Speaker: Diana Mickevi?ien?, Lithuanian diplomat, Professor of Indian History at Vilnius University

 

Film: Lithuanian Columbuses in India (30 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Edita Mildažyt?

 

Moderator: Dr. Vidya Shankar Aiyar, media expert and independent analyst

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Lithuania)

 

 

By Maria Nemtsova on the piano and Vitaly Vatulya on the saxophone

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

 

 

Pran Nevile pays tribute to the legendary immortal singer

 

Followed by a concert by Dr Gaurav Sood

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)