Naada Sangaman

 

Presented by Delhi R. Sridhar on violin; Kumbakonam N. Padmanaban on mridangam; Elathur N. Hari Narayanan on Ghatam; and P. Adithya Narayan on kanjira

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)

Mughal-e-Azam (The Great Mughal)

(197 min; 1960; dvd; colour; Hindi)

Director: K. Asif

 

With Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Durga Khote

 

Recipient of the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, 9th National Film Awards 1961; Filmfare Awards for best Film, Best Dialogue & Best Cinematography, 8th Filmfare Awards 1961

 

Re-visiting a cinema classic, considered one of Bollywood’s most iconic film and the highest-grossing Indian film of all time. It was the first Hindi film in black-and-white to be digitally coloured and released in 2004, it tells the story of 16th century doomed lovers, rebellious Prince Salim and court dancer Anarkali

 

(Collaboration: Anupama Productions; and with the support of Shemaroo Entertainment)

 

 

A Tale of Wonder: Kathakautukam

Illustrated lecture by Ambassador A.N.D. Haksar based on his recently published translation of Srivara’s classic Biblical story that travels across regions and time-ultimately reaching medieval India where it is transformed by Shaivite overtones

 

(Collaboration: India Harmony Foundation)

Aaj Kavita
 

Astbhuja Shukla (Basti); Shankaranad (Khagaria); Jitendra Srivastava (Delhi); and Poonam Arora (Delhi)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

The Poetry Society (India) Annual Lecture

 

Does Poetry Redress Anymore?

Speaker: Shri K. Jaykumar, well-known Malayali poet and former Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala

 

Chair: Dr. Lakshmi Kannan

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

Understanding Anxiety Disorders
 

Speakers: Dr. Nand Kumar, psychiatrist, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS); and Ms Manavi Khurana, Founder & Counselling Psychologist, Karma Center for Counselling & Wellbeing

 

Moderator: Shubha Menon

 

(Collaboration: You, Me & Mental Health)

 

Fake News and the Lok Sabha Elections
 

Speakers: Shri R. Sukumar, Editor, The Hindustan Times; Shri Justice A.K. Sikri, Judge, Supreme Court of India; Ms Ankhi Das, Director-India, South Asia and Central Asia, Facebook (tbc); Ms Divya Spandana, Social Media Head, Indian National Congress (tbc); and Shri Amit Malviya, Social Media Head, Bharatiya Janata Party (tbc)

 

Moderator: Shri Tobby Simon, Founder President, Synergia Foundation

 

An incumbent national leadership that must win at all costs or face political humiliation and oblivion. A national party that must reclaim its fading glory or be banished for another 5 years in the political wilderness. Regional satraps whose soaring ambitions see themselves as being more than just kingmakers. The world’s largest electorate population of more than 900 million, riven by caste and communal considerations. Add to this incendiary mix fake news and you have the making of a brutal, no-holds-barred, and potentially violent Elections 2019. The discussion will focus on finding the most appropriate solutions—technological, regulatory, and informed citizenry—to combat the bane of fake news or at the least minimize its impact on the country’s general elections

 

(Collaboration: Synergia Foundation)

 

 

THE IIC DOUBLE BILL MUSIC CONCERT

 

Sitar Recital

By Soumitra Thakur from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Kushal Das

 

 

AT 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Shubhankar Chatterjee from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Kumarprasad Mukherjee

 

Landscapes of the Thar Desert
 

Speaker: Shri Pradip Krishen, naturalist, environmentalist, author of Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide and Jungle Trees of Central India. He has also directed some well-known films like Massey Sahib and In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

Chair: Shri Pranney Lal, Journalist

 

Pradip will speak on how the Thar Desert in West Rajasthan isn't just an undifferentiated sandy 'wasteland' but a collection of distinct landscapes that have to do with the complicated geological evolution of the western desert. Photographs of several of these distinctive landscapes will be shown and he will explain how they relate to the plants found in each of them

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Economics of Religion in India

By Sriya Iyer (London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018)

 

Discussants: Prof. Rajeev Bhargava, former Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Shri Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister, Environment and Forests