MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Nilina's Song: The Music of Naina Devi

We celebrate Naina Devi and her music in this, her centenary year. The importance of music, and very particularly forms such as thumri, chaiti, kajri, barahmasa, is discussed with some excerpts from recordings to highlight ? the quality of her voice and exposition style. There will also be detailed references to her life and the extraordinary social and musical paths it followed 

 

Illustrated lecture by AshaRani Mathur, writer and music lover and has been fortunate enough to work in both fields. She has written and edited books on a variety of topics, and was the Producer, for seven years, for the record label Music Today

 

Chair: Partha Chatterjee, music and art critic

BEYOND BORDERS – IIC-NFI LECTURE SERIES

 

The  Impossible Dream? Decolonising the History of Borders

Speaker: Prof. Indrani Chatterjee, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin. A prominent historian of colonial South Asia who has researched, worked, and taught on three continents

 

Introduction: Dr. Monica Bannerjee, Director, NFI

Moderator: Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat

 

(Collaboration: National Foundation for India)

 

Cultural Distance and Public Understanding of Science: 25 years of study at Kumbh Mela

Speaker: Dr. Gauhar Raza, scientist formerly with the NISCAIR.  He has been attending the Kumbh Mela for 25 years to do a survey on understanding of science among common people. Apart from pioneering work in the field of Public Understanding of Science, he has active collaborations in South Africa, Brazil, Paris, etc. He is also a recognised Urdu poet

 

(Collaboration: SAHAS)

CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Razor’s Edge (145 min; 1946; dvd; English)

A film directed by John Byrum 

 

With Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney

 

Nominated for the Best Picture Award at the Oscars, and is a recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Supporting Actor 1947; and Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor & Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globes, USA 1947

 

Based on the renowned novelist W. Somerset Maugham’s best-seller, The Razor's Edge tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life and questions society’s values

 

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

 

Evolving Identities – Masters of Bengal

An exhibition of drawings and paintings tracing the development and evolution of modern art practices

On view are original works by Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Binode Bihari Mukherjee, Ram Kinkar Baij, Jamini Roy, Asit Haldar, L.M. Sen and others

 

The exhibition also includes some Kalighat paintings

Curator: Vijay Kowshik

Co-Curator: Vaibhavi Kowshik

 

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Life Trustee IIC and Chairperson, IIC International Research Division on Monday, 18 December 2017 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Arts Glacerhi)

DELHI MATTERS – TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

 

Coming Face to Face with a Medical Emergency in Delhi and the NCR

Speakers: Shri P. Kamaraj, Special Commissioner, Delhi Police on The Management of Medical Emergencies with Modern Technology: Lessons Learnt from 100; Dr. Tamorish Kole, Chairman, Institute of Emergency Medicine, VPS Rockland Hospitals, Delhi NCR on First Responses: Doing Your Part – 5 Golden Rules; Dr. M.C. Misra, former Director and Emeritus Professor, AIIMS; President cum Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Jaipur on Warning Signals, Preventive Strategies – What Those at Risk Need to Know; and Shri Suhaan Mukerji, Legal Advisor to Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and Principal Draftsman of the New Motor Vehicles’ Act on Improving Mobility/Access Issues in Traffic and Transport

 

Chair: Smt Shailaja Chandra, former Chief Secretary, Delhi

 

Japan-India Relations – History and Perspective (in Hindi)

Speaker: Professor Tomio  Mizokami, Professor of Indian Language, Osaka University, Japan

 

Chair: Dr. Vedpratap Vaidik

 

The lecture is about the history of Japan-India Relations from the arrival of Buddhism (6th Century) to PM Abe's recent visit to India and to think about the perspective in Hindi. The speaker will touch all important historical incidents – political, economical and cultural – in brief and show the 10 minutes of Hindi film related to the life of Subhas Chandra Bose. Though most of the contents are known to the Japanese intellectuals, but not necessarily to the Indian intellectuals

 

And they Made Classics (59 min; 2017; dvd; English)

Directed by Ratnottama Sengupta who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A journey beyond the screens into the making of Devdas, Sujata, Bandini…Nabendu Ghosh shared a unique bonding with his “film guru”, Bimal Roy. In 1951, when the celluloid master left Kolkata to make Maa for Bombay Talkies, he took the litterateur with him forging a partnership to bring stories to life through films. Ratnottama Sengupta revisits the stories in this Centennial Tribute to Nabendu Ghosh, the writer’s art and his contribution in moulding New Indian Cinema

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Readings by Vivek Narayanan, I. Allan Sealy and Bei Dao

 

All readings will be in the original language and in English translation

 

(Collaboration: Almost Island)

 

ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Launch of Argentinian novelist Sergio Chejfec's book, Baroni: A Journey, published by Almost Island

 

Readings by Sergio Chejfec, Sharmistha Mohanty and Mohammed Bennis