ALMOST ISLAND: POETRY READINGS – 15 TO 17 DECEMBER 2017

Readings by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Mangalesh Dabral and Joy Goswami

The Light of the Moon

Illustrated talk by Pawo Choyning Dorji, a photographer from Bhutan, who has spent the past 3 years as retracing Xuanzang’s journey across the ancient Silk Road

 

Introduction: Dzongskar Khyentse Rinpoche, a renowned Film maker and foremost Buddhist teacher

 

Xuanzang’s (602-664 CE) epic 18-year pilgrimage to India, is one of the most celebrated journeys in the history of mankind. The Light of the Moon, is an on-going project and in this lecture, it  takes us on a visual journey through the ancient corridors of the silk roads, through the valleys of Bamiyan, and the hidden lands of the Karakoram

 

(Collaboration: Deer Park Institute)

ART MATTERS

Satyasheel Deshpande on music and musicians

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

TASTING INDIA FARM TO TABLE

 

Lead speakers at 10:30 - Smt Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development

 

AT 14:30 – Shri Pawan Aggarwal, CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India 

 

AT 16:30 - Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog

TASTING INDIA: FARM TO TABLE

A two-day knowledge exchange to promote a global dialogue on India’s gastronomic heritage and culinary tourism potential, the country’s wealth and diversity, and farm-to-table innovations

 

Curated by Sourish Bhattacharyya and Sanjoo Malhotra, Founder Directors, Tasting India Symposium

 

Lead speakers include on 14 DECEMBER 2017 AT 12:00 – Dr. Colleen Taylor Sen, author of Fasts and Feasts: A Food History of India and Dr. Gita Ramesh, Joint Managing-Director, Kairali

 

The Russian Revolution: Storms Across a Century, 1917-2017

Launch of a book by Dr. Achala Moulik, former Education secretary, Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, Additional Chief Secretary, Karnataka and recipient of the Sergey Yessenin Prize (2013) for her contribution to Russian Literature 

 

Discussion: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution – Impact on Geopolitics Today

Keynote Address: His Excellency Mr Nikolay Kudashev, Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India

 

Speakers : Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar ; Dr Hari Vasudevan, Professor of Russian History at University of Calcutta;  Ambassador Ranjit Gupta, IFS (Retd); Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, author and journalist; Shri Manish Purohit, publisher and historian; and Achala Moulik, author

 

Sublime Forms - II

An exhibition of recent mixed media works by Hemavathy Guha from Delhi

 

Preview on Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 18:00

 

The artist will demonstrate her techniques, materials on 16 December 2017 at 12:00 noon

Gallery walk through by the artist on 17 December 2017 at 17:00

 

Upheavals in Saudi Arabia: Implications for the Desert Kingdom and West Asian Security

Speaker: Ambassador Talmiz Ahmed, former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

The two-year reign of King Salman bin Abdulaziz in Saudi Arabia has over-turned many of the well-established principles on the basis of  which the kingdom has functioned for the last several decades, which have imparted both continuity and resilience to the Saudi political order. Now, the king has placed full powers, political, economic and military, in the hands of his young son, 32-year old Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has also become the crown prince after ousting two senior family members. However, the purge of senior royals and their detention, along with scores of senior officials and business persons, on 3 November, is extraordinary by any yardstick, and portends grave domestic and regional uncertainty in coming months

 

WINTER FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND MUSIC: 12 AND 13 DECEMBER 2017

 

13 December: An Evening of Dance

 

18:00  

Sattriya Recital

By Lima Das from Guwahati, disciple of Guru Jatin Goswami 

 

At 19:00  

Kathak Recital

By Moumala Nayak from Delhi, disciple of Pt Birju Maharaj

 

WINTER FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND MUSIC: 12 AND 13 DECEMBER 2017

 

12 December: An Evening of Hindustani Music

 

18:00   

Sitar Recital

By  Kalyan Majumdar from Kolkata, son and disciple of  Shri Subhajit  Majumdar  

 

At 19:00  

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Avinash Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Pt Tushar Dutt, Ustad Aftab Ahmed Khan and Pt Somnath Mardur