Aaj Kavita

Anamika (Delhi), Sangeeta Gundecha (Bhopal), Baabusha Kohli (Jabalpur) and Lovely Goswami (Bengaluru)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

 

Last Girl First: National Conference Against Child Labour and Sexual Exploitation

Keynote Speaker: Ms Catherine MacKinnon a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality issues domestically and internationally; Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; widely published in many languages, her dozen books include Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Are Women Human? (2006), and her casebook Sex Equality (2001/2007;  also works with Equality Now, an international NGO promoting sex equality, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)

 

(Collaboration: Aapne Aap Worldwide)

 

 

Between prefixes and suffixes: Problematising the Moral Code in Indian Aesthetics

A lecture by Navtej Johar (as part of the Abhyas Lecture Series) 

 

The lecture will challenge the predominantly linear and moral convention of the Bhava-Rasa theory by locating in it the possibilities of abstraction and viewing it within the realms of Linguistics and Poetics

 

(Collaboration: Studio Abhyas)

 

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister

By Sagarika Ghose (New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2017)

 

Panelists: Shri Manish Tiwari, former Union Minister and lawyer; Ms Nalini Singh, journalist, MD of TV Live India Pvt.; and 

Dr. Seshadari Chari, journalist, political, strategic and foreign policy analyst

 

Chair: Shri Wajahat Habibullah, former Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities

 

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Purna Chandra Chakravarty from Dhanbad, Bihar, disciple of Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty and Pt. Samaresh Choudhury

 

 

Political Violence in Ancient India

Discussion on the new book by Upinder Singh (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2017)

 

Discussant: Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History, Ashoka University; Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor Environmental Studies and History, Ashok University

 

Chair: Smt Ira Pande

 

(Collaboration: Penguin Random House)

 

Ramji Thakkar, Bhimji Thakkar (70 min; dvd; 2016; Gujarati/English & with subtitles)

Director: Shwetal Bhatt

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

 

The film explores the urban history of Navratri, and its social context in an urban setup. It also seeks to highlight the role played by the city of Baroda in shaping the festival as well as the folk dance (garba), which is inseparably associated with the festival. It is essentially an urban Indian woman’s quest to understand what makes the festival as it is celebrated today in her hometown. The film is a combination of interviews and live footage about some rare books, old photographs, archival footage and mesmerising music

 

(Collaboration: Gujarati Club)

 

 

Carnatic Music – Homage to the Mridangam Trinity of the Past

Shri Palghat Manu Iyer, Shri Pazhani Subramaniam Pillai and Shri Ramanathapuram C.S. Murugabhoopathy

Percussion ensemble by Kumbakonam N. Padmanabhan and his disciples

Supported by Delhi R. Sridhar and his disciples on violin

 

 

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)