Martyrs’ Day

 

Women, Partition and Gandhi

Speaker: Ms Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited 

 

Followed by a performance 

Songs of protest and freedom 

by Prof. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University

 

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya International Trust)

 

Shringar – Paintings in Nathdwara Style

This exhibition presents art works done in Nathadwara style by Yugdeepak Soni from Udaipur

Curator: Gargi Seth

 

The tradition of Shrinathji pichwai paintings has been a dynamic one and this exhibition tries to capture the same. Shringar or ornamentation is an integral part of Shrinathji seva (service) in Nathdwara

Inauguration on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 18:30 by Shri S.S. Krishna Setty, Administrator, Lalit Kala Akademi

 

On 30 & 31 January 2018 from 16:00 to 18:00 in the Annexe Art Gallery

Pichhwai Painting Demonstration

Yugdeepak Soni will conduct a live demonstration and walk through of the exhibition

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste

By Diane Coffey and Dean Spears (Noida: HarperCollins, 2017)

 

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

 

Kathak Recital

By Divya Dikshit from Delhi, disciple of Smt Yogino Gandhi and Shri Munna Shukla

 

ART MATTERS

In conversation with Paramjit Singh

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

How to make sense of the Global Economy alongside a failing WTO?

Speaker: Dr. Mohan Kumar, Vice-Dean and Professor of Diplomatic Practice, OP Jindal School of International Affairs; Vice Chairman, RIS

 

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran

 

The WTO is clearly in the ICU! For years, the mantra in the West was that if a country followed principles of free trade espoused by the GATT/WTO then it was bound to become prosperous. More importantly, free trade was supposed to be a win-win and it was simply a matter of time before the benefits trickled down to all within the country. This thesis has been severely tested for the last decade or so. Curiously, it is precisely over the last decade or so that countries like China (and to a lesser extent India) have exploited both the WTO and Globalization to lift millions out of poverty. Interestingly, both the Global Economy and the WTO are at a crossroads

 

IIC Annual Day 2018

 

Qawwali
By Dhruv Sangari (Bilal Chishty), Sufi singer and Rooh Ensemble

 

FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Life/Death (52 min; 2012; dvd; English)

Director: Sayantan Chakrabarti

 

Millions of lives are at stake in the extensive Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra plains due to arsenic contamination of ground water. There is no figure to put to the number of lives already lost. Arsenic contamination has flourished notwithstanding high level action committees and detailed master plans. At one glance, it seems a predicament of epidemic proportions. On closer scrutiny, however, it becomes a farce featuring thirty years of collective failure – a failure of which all stakeholders are guilty

 

(Collaboration:  World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

The Magic of the Flute

A presentation by Sunit Tandon

 

The illustrated talk will be an exploration of the themes, the symbolism, the philosophy and the revolutionary musical genius of Mozart’s fairy tale opera Die Zauberflöte or The Magic Flute 

 

Sunit Tandon is a media and theatre person. He is currently President of the Delhi Music Society and Director of the Yatrik theatre group. He was recently the Festival Director of the 48th International Film Festival of India

 

The Collected Poems of Keshav Malik

Release of collected works in five volumes published by Authors Press

 

Chief Guest:  Dr. Lokesh Chandra, President ICCR

 

Speakers: Dr. Sitanshu Yashaschandra, eminent writer and critic; Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar, formerly Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, University of Delhi; and Prof. Aditya Malik, Nalanda University

 

Readings from the collection by Dr. H. K. Kaul, Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Prof. Aditya Malik, and Shri Subroto Bondopadhyay

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)