Objects: Identities: Meanings

Insider Perspectives on Material Cultures from North East India

 

Exhibition based on a series of field research projects conducted by members of the North East Forum (NEF), Ambedkar University, Delhi between 2012-2014. The research objective used material artefacts to arrive at an insider perspective on how communities from North East India negotiate cultural transformation. Narratives collected describe the processes by which some elements of a culture survive, while others become insignificant. The materials in the exhibition are used by the following communities – Bodos (Assam), Khasi (Meghalaya), Mao Naga (Manipur), Meitei (Manipur), Rongmei Naga (Manipur) and Sumi (Nagaland)

 

Items on display for the exhibition include textile materials, clothing used for different occasions, pottery, photographs and video

 

Inauguration on Friday, 15th September 2017 at 18:30

 

On Monday 18 September 2017 at 18:30 – there will be a presentation by the researchers

 

(Collaboration: Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University)

 

 

 

 

Buddhist Sculptures of Sanchi

Speaker: Dr. Archana Asthana, Archaeological Survey Of India
Chair: Shri R.C. Agrawal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kalibanga Ka Anveshi

A biographical sketch of linguist and explorer L.P. Tessitori

By Om Thanvi

  

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Ms Noor Zaheer, writer and researcher, writes in English, Hindi and Urdu.  Some of her works include:   Denied by Allah, My God is a Woman, Silent Dunes, Raging Forests, Mere Hisse ki Roshnai, Surkh Karavan ke Hamsafar (Hindi travelogue-Pakistan), Aaj ke Naam (Biography of Faiz Ahmed Faiz), The Dancing Lama on Buddhist Performance Traditions of North Western Himalayas. A committed theatre worker Noor Zaheer writes and directs plays, conducts theatre workshops and adapts and translates plays by well-known playwrights

Chair: Shri Kishore Thukral

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)

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)