To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990

 

Discussion on 'Where is Indian Media headed?'

Speakers: Ms Pamela Philipose, senior journalist and senior fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Shri M. K. Venu, Founding Editor, The Wire; and  

Shri Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Catch News

 

Moderator: Suhas Borker

 

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)

 

Sitar Recital

By Anjan Saha from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Debiprasad Chatterjee

 

 

Illustrated lecture by Kathryn Hansen, leading scholar of South Asian theatre history, with special expertise in the popular traditions in Hindi and Urdu and Professor Emerita of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, where she served as Director of the Center for Asian Studies. Her book, Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies, presents the life stories of four artists from the Parsi theatre. Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India, her first monograph, won the A.K. Coomaraswamy Book Prize

Chair: Dr. Shernaz Cama

 

 

(Collaboration: PARZOR)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote Speaker: Shri Deepak Gupta, Former Chairman UPSC 

 

Chair: Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary to the President of India 

 

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

 

 

Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts

By Aakash Singh Rathore and Rimina Mohapatra (New Delhi: OUP, 2017)

 

Panelists: Prof. Makarand R. Paranjape, Professor of English, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Swagato Ganguly, Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India; and Prof. Babu Thaliath, Professor & Chairperson, Centre for German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Dr. Bharat Wariavwalla, Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

Sitar Recital

By Ayan Sengupta from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Manilal Nag and Pt Kushal Das and at present receiving talim from           Pt Partha Chatterjee and Pt Ajoy Chakraborty under the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship 2017

 

Accompanist: Zuheb Ahmed Khan of Delhi on the tabla

 

(Collaboration: Sanskriti – Madhobi Chatterji Fellowship)

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Shri A.G.K. Menon, architect and Convener, INTACH Delhi Chapter

 

Chair: Shri K. T. Ravindran

 

The term ‘architectural heritage of India’ generally refers to buildings over a hundred years old. This overlooks many significant buildings built during the last century, particularly the extraordinary architecture of post - independence. This lacuna was highlighted recently during the failed attempts to conserve the Hall of Nations at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The talk will focus on the need to conserve exemplary examples of modern architecture along with ancient ones and discuss the issues involved

 

(Collaboration: INTACH, Delhi Chapter)

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search V

Presented by Ronald Eyre

 

Buddhism: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha – Japan (52 min; English; dvd)

If the Buddha of India met the Buddha of Japan, would they recognize each other? To find out, this film talks to the staff in a Tokyo restaurant who keep regular Zen meditation schedules as part of their job, then on to the classical Zen calligraphy, sword fighting, archery and tea ceremony

 

African Religions: Zulu Lion (51 min; English; dvd)

Film on the Zulu Independent Churches in South Africa. When Christian missionaries took the Gospel to Africa they also tried to suppress African religion and subvert African culture with their own. But since World War I, and with increasing vigour in the last 20 years, Africans have been rediscovering their lost religious identity and have been forming independent churches with their own festivals, prophets and rituals and greater or lesser devotion to Christ

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)