Xinjiang and the Chinese State

Release and discussion around the book by Debasish Chaudhuri (New Delhi: Routledge, 2018)

 

Speakers: Ambassador Rajiv Sikri; Prof. Siddiq Wahid; Prof. K. Warikoo; and Dr. T. G. Suresh

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies; and Routledge)

 

Concert – Guitar Recital

By Thomas Csaba, award winning classical guitarist from France

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Erik Satie, Philip Glass and Arvo Part

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Life is as is: Teachings from the Mahabharata

Launch and Discussion of the book by Kavita A. Sharma and Indu Ramchandani

 

Speakers: Professor Malashri Lal,  Professor Molly Kaushal and Professor Alok Bhalla

 

Chair: Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President ICCR, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

 

(Collaboration: Wisdom Tree)

 

 

The Garden of Forgotten Snow (30 min; 2017; digital video; English)

Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by Gayatri Sinha in conversation  with Nilima Sheikh

 

The Garden of Forgotten Snow is a film about Nilima Sheikh’s art practice and her engagement with the land of Kashmir over several decades. The film traverses the many layers of memory and history as embodied in her work and the literary and art-historical traditions it references

 

 

A Shining City on a Hill

A discussion on the book by Come Carpentier de Gourdon

 

Speakers: General Vinod Saighal;  Shri Ran Chakrabarti, attorney-at-law; and Ms Juhi Rani Kaul

 

This book is a biovel, a novelized biographic story which narrates the author's visit to Colorado in the USA in the eighties and his investigations into the forces that shape and move that society and control power within it. Arriving from India where he had spent eight years, the writer uncovered many little known or hidden facets of America's history and political system. 

The book reveals that America's long standing high level interest in esotericism came of age when some of its ruling elites came into contact with what they first saw as the Supernatural. That is perhaps the greatest secret that has been kept until today and it may account in part for the current state of the USA

 

 

(Collaboration: Har-Anand Publication)

 

Odissi  Recital 

By Prerna Aggarwal from Delhi, disciple of Smt Madhavi Mudgal

On the occasion of the Indo-Greek seminar on  Demetrios Galanos and His Legacy: Indo-Greek Exchanges, 1790-2018

 

Concert – Greek Melodies

Four Greek Musicians will perform traditional songs from the Greek Islands – old Rebetico, melodic improvisations

 

Musicians: Nikos Paraoulakis (ney); James Wylie (politiki lyra); Avgerini Gatsi (voice, accordion); and Thimios Atzakas (oud)

 

(Collaboration: IGNCA; Embassy of Greece; and Indo Hellenic Friendship League)

 

 

(Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

 

Pundit Nain Singh Rawat – The First of the Pundits of the Tibetan Explorations

An illustrated lecture by Prof. Shekhar Pathak, historian, writer and academician who has been re-tracing the footsteps of Pundit Nain Singh for the last 40 years. His endeavour to unravel more about Tibet’s foremost surveyor has taken him on trails that were once walked by the Pundit himself, and through his own words penned down in personal journals and documentations

 

 

Chair: Shri Deb Mukharji

 

(Collaboration: Pahar)

 

 

Black Clay Poetry/Pottery

An interactive session conducted by Dak_ti Craft with Milda Shylla and Yophie Shylla

Conceptualised by Rida Gatphoh

 

The Other Silk Route: Spookery, Trade and the Great Game

The ‘Old Silk Route’ or the ‘Other Silk Road’, which passes through east Sikkim, is part of an ancient network of trade routes, which for centuries, served as a lifeline connection between China and India. But besides trade, this ancient trading route became the most critical passage for espionage by the great powers

 

Panelists: Siddiq Wahid, Author & Historian; Diki Sherpa, Researcher; and Prof. Parimal Bhattacharya, Author and Teacher

Moderator: Dr. Gitanjali Surendran, Historian

 

The Game of Thrones: China-Burma-India Campaign of WW II

The jungle war that was the China-Burma-India campaign of the Second World War was the most unconventional, colourful and dramatic of battles. Marked by internecine squabbles and political intrigues, and coupled with enormous stakes, neither the Allies nor the Axis powers were willing to let go of this front. From the heroic transport flights over the “Hump” of the Himalayas to drop supplies to the Chinese resistance to the most prodigious engineering feats of the Manipur and Ledo Roads, this battle was amongst the fiercest and demanded ingenuity at all levels. Who were these mavericks and why were the powers so desperate to control this front? What was really at stake in this, till recently, little acknowledged and yet critical, theatre of war 

 

Panelists: Kai Friese, Journalist; Hemant Katoch, Author and Researcher; and Catriona Child, Writer

Moderator: Prof. Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Author and Journalist

 

My Name is Eeooow (Meghalaya)

(52 min; 2016; dvd; English)

Directed by Oinam Doren who will introduce the film

 

Imagine a village where you sing every time you call someone's name

 

Concert by Mi Ku, a contemporary folk ensemble from Nepal

 

With Pushpa Palanchoke, vocals; Kobid Bazra, sarangi; Samyog Regmi, guitar; Riken Maharjan, abss; Bikesh Bazra, nagara; Merit Maharjan, percussions; Prabin Maharjan, drums; and Sangam Panta, sound