Speaker: Shri U.K. Sinha, former Chairman Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

Chair: Shri Dhirendra Swarup, former Finance Secretary and former Chairman, PFRDA

 

 

A Bharatanatyam presentation by Dakshina Vaidyanathan Bhagel; Nehha Bhatnagar; Gayatri Deka; Akanksha Rana; Debasmita Thakur; Ankita Kaushik; Amrit Sinha; and Shamshur Rehman from Delhi, senior disciples of Guru Smt Saroja Vaidyanathan

 

 

(Collaboration: Ganesa Natyalaya)

 

THURSDAY 17

 

DISCUSSION ? CONFERENCE ROOM II AT 16:00 

 

A series of discussions on post-CivilWar Spain and post dictatorship in Latin America dealing with the  burden of memory and general mass of people as the main actors/sufferers during the crisis and survivors of the same who have to carry this burden in their mind for a long period of time. In the course of the series texts (fiction/ nonfiction), films paintings and other art production will be discussed.

 

Series Coordinator: Professor Vibha Maurya who will give an introduction

 

Speakers: Dr. Margit Koves, Professor of Hungarian Studies, University of Delhi; Dr. Tarun Saint, English Department, Hindu College; and Durba Banerji, Research Scholar, Hispanic Studies, University of Delhi

 

(Collaboration: Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi)

 

PERFORMANCE ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 19:00

 

In Kathak and Brij-Raas Style

Dance Choreography by Uma Sharma

Music Direction: Pt. Jwala Prasad

Accompanists: Madho Prasad (gayan); Vinay Prasanna (flute); Mubarak Khan (tabla); Khalid Mustafa (sitar); and Yograj Panwar (padhant)

 

Compere: Sadhna Shrivastav

Speaker: Ms Sunita Narain, Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment

 

16th BCF annual lecture organised in collaboration with the Business and Community Foundation

 

 

By Paromita Mukherji, disciple of Pt. V.G. Jog

 

Followed by

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Milind Chittal, disciple of Firoz Dastoor, Kirana Gharana

 

 

India at a Crossroads. The Future of our Democracy

Speaker: Shri Baijayant “Jay” Panda, M.P.

 

(Collaboration: Prem Bhatia Memorial Society)

 

 

 

An exhibition of photographs and documents depicting India’s freedom struggle under Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership and his vision of free India from the collection of the National Gandhi Museum. Beginning with Gandhi’s return to India from South Africa in 1915 and the first satyagraha in Champaran in 1917, the Ahmedabad Mill workers’ strike, the Non-Co-operation movement, Bardoli satyagraha, Dandi March, Quit India movement and Gandhi’s last days in Bihar and Noakhali. It will also depict the Mahatma’s dream of free India – removal of poverty, communal harmony, removal of untouchability, equality of women, a new system of education, etc. The exhibition will also include replicas of Gandhi’s ashrams

Curated by Dr. Aparna Basu, Chairperson, National Gandhi Museum

 

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division on 10 August 2017 at 17:00 followed by Gandhi ji’s Favourite Bhajans presented by school children

 

(Collaboration: National Gandhi Museum)

DISCUSSION ? ANNEXE LECTURE ROOM II AT 18:30

 

A discussion on the recent book, India Dissents (Speaking Tiger, New Delhi: 2017)

 

Speakers: Keki Daruwalla, Githa Hariharan, Purushottam Agrawal, Madhavi Menon, and Siddhartha Varadarajan

Chair: Ashok Vajpeyi

 

The book is a collection of essays, letters, reports, poems, songs and calls to action – from texts ranging from the Rig Veda to Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste; and by thinkers as varied as the Buddha, Akka Mahadevi, Lal Ded, Nanak, Ghalib, Tagore, Manto, Jayaprakash Narayan, Namdeo Dhasal, Mahasweta Devi and Amartya Sen. Their words embody the undying and essential spirit of dissent in one of the world’s most diverse, dynamic and oldest civilizations

 

(Collaboration: Speaking Tiger)

 

 

THURSDAY 10

 

 

 

(70 in; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Biju Toppo & Meghnath who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Film on the life and work of Dr. Ram Dayal Munda who is a symbol of indigenous cultural reawakening. Born in an Adivasi family of Tamar in Jharkhand, following his higher studies in USA, he returned to teach at the Tribal and Regional Language Department of Ranchi University and subsequently became its Vice-Chancellor. A leading intellectual who has contributed immensely to the Jharkhand movement, Dr. Munda represented Adivasi voices in the Rajya Sabha and at the United Nations. The film follows the personal and private life of Dr. Munda, as a brilliant student, successful teacher, poet, performer, activist and philosopher