By Shanta Acharya from her latest collection, Imagine and New selected Poems  (HarperCollins)

Chair: Shri Keki N. Daruwalla

 

Shanta Acharya won a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College in 1979. A recipient of the Violet Vaughan Morgan Fellowship, she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for her work on Ralph Waldo Emerson. The author of ten books, her publications range from poetry, literary criticism and fiction to finance. In addition to her philanthropic activities, she served twice on the board of trustees of the Poetry Society in the UK

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

FRIDAY 10

 

PERFORMANCE ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30 

 

Written by Anuradha Marwah

Directed by Sanjay Kumar, Founder President/Artistic Director, Pandies Theatre, Delhi

 

With Shilpi, Diksha, Sanjukta, Priya, Sameer, Vineet, Lourdes, Parash, Menaka and Indrajit

 

Ismat’s Love Stories (100 min) is about the Urdu writer, Ismat Chughtai and presents her “crooked” characters, her mercurial friendship with Saadat Hasan Manto, and how she turned out to a “total woman after all”. The script was the finalist for the Hindu Playwright Award 2016 and is enacted in English by the well-known Pandies Theatre actors

 

The performance will be followed by a discussion with the entire unit   

DISCUSSION ? SEMINAR ROOMS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

A discussion on Too Many Men, Too Few Women: Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in India and China, edited by Ravinder Kaur

 

Speakers: Professor K.S. James, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Professor Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Professor Ravinder Kaur, IIT, Delhi

 

Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi

 

(Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

 

 

By Officina Zoe', a well–known musical group of "pizzica tarantata", an exciting rhythm from Salento Area in the deepest south of Italy

 

Since 1993 Officina Zoé has one of the groups to propose with most strength the musical traditions of the Salento area, especially the pizzica, that is the ancestral rhythm of Salento soul: exciting and touching, therapeutic and hilarious. From immemorial time pizzica explodes in its absorbing hypnotic expression. A frenzy that induces dance and obsessive movement, so much so that it was used in the past as a trance vehicle or even as a therapeutic source. One of the stronger elements in the musical rebirth of the whole of Southern Italy

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

 

 

TALK & EXHIBITION ? ART GALLERY, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX FROM 18:00

 

Lecture and demonstration by Dr. Kyoko Horie, Executive Director, Research Institute for the Traditional Art of Japan and an expert on different aspects of Japanese culture

 

Dr. Horie will be accompanied by other masters – Takahiko Hachida, Keiko Shimizu, Tatsuya Hayakawa, Hisako Fujimori, Midori Sasajima, Keiko Ajima, Setsuko Tomimoto and Katsue Fukutani 

 

Exhibition: Cherry Blossoms and Tale of Genji

Picture scrolls and calligraphy works by modern calligraphy masters

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan)

 

 

 

Nation, Ethnicity and the Conflict in Afghanistan

By Raghav Sharma (London: Routledge, 2017)

 

Discussants: Shri Shakti Sinha, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library; Prof. Ajay Darshan Behera, Jamia Millia Islamia University; and Ambassador Vivek Katju, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Myanmar and Thailand

 

Chair: Ambassador T.C.A. Rangachari, former Indian Ambassador to Algeria, France and Germany

 

 

 

 

Open Futures- Filmit India

The best films will be screened from the Helen Hamlyn Trust Filmit programme that involves 30 schools from Delhi to make films on the culture of Delhi.  The aim of the project is to promote understanding, care and concern for their heritage amongst schoolchildren

 

(Collaboration: Heritage Education and Communication Service, INTACH)

 

 

Hindustani Vocal – Khayal

By Pt. Naresh Malhotra

Accompanied by Ustad Akhtar Hussain (tabla); and Paromita Mukherjee (harmonium)

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

 

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)

 

 

By Chetan Joshi  from Delhi, disciple of the late Pt Bholanath Prasanna and late Pt Raghunath Seth