Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy

Speakers: Ms Bonnie Glaser, Director, China Power Project, CSIS; Ambassador Derek Mitchell, former US Ambassador to Myanmar; Ambassador Vinod C. Khanna, former Director, Institute of Chinese Studies; and Ms Kristy Hsu, Director, Taiwan ASEAN Studies Center 

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)

DURGABAI DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018

Human Insecurity in South Asia: Challenging Market Injustice 

 

Speaker: Prof. Rehman Sobhan, Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka and Former Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Mat Todo Yeh Vadi (90 min)

Written and directed by Sarita Vohra

Presented by Living Room Theatre Society

 

A Hindustani musical play on everyday life in the Kashmir Valley seen through the lives of a family. The play also highlights the frustration of house-boat owners who wait endlessly for tourists; the Karigars who cannot find customers, the musician who has no audience, students who cannot complete their education…

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Regional Satraps and the Battle for India Foreign Policy

By Kalyani Shankar (New Delhi: ICWA & Vij House, 2017)

 

Discussants: Prof. S.D. Muni, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses & Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Muchkund Dubey, former Foreign Secretary and President, Council for Social Development; and Ambassador K. Raghunath, former Foreign Secretary

Chair: Shri H.K. Dua, Senior Journalist and former Member, Rajya Sabha

THE IIC  DOUBLE BILL CONCERT 

 

Odissi Recital 

By Mrinalini Biswas from Kolkata, disciple of Smt Muktilata Pal and Guru Shib Narayan Banerjee 

 

Followed by

 

Kathak Recital 

By  Swati Sinha from Delhi, disciple of  Pt. Rajendra Gangani

 

 

The Story of Vimor

An exhibition on Vimor’s 45 year journey of documenting, reviving and supporting hand-loom weavers. The exhibition presents old textile samples and photographs; old/antique sarees and the new revived versions of the sarees; revival of designs and techniques; and the success story of the weavers

Curated and presented by Pavithra Muddaya

 

Inauguration by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor on Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 18:00

 

The inauguration will be followed by a Conversation with Smt Pavithra Muddaya and Smt Jasleen Dhamija 

 

Art Matters

 

Her Theatre 

by Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, Kirti Jain and Maya K. Rao

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Creating Zero Waste Communities and Households

A discussion

 

Speakers: Shri Keshav Jaini, who has for the last 20 years working on composting and has set up a low-cost, long-term composting system for the colony; and Ms Madhur Panjwani, lawyer and founder of “Earth to Earth”

 

 

Unlocking our Sounds: Historical Recordings from the Indian Subcontinent

Illustrated presentation by Janet Topp-Fargion and Shubha Chaudhuri

 

The British Library and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies (ARCE) have been engaged in a collaborative project. As part of this project ARCE has received digital copies of very valuable collections of ethnographic wax cylinder recordings from the British Library. These include the recordings from the Linguistic Survey of India by George Grierson from 1913-1929, the Madras Museum Cylinder collection recorded by K. Rangachari and Edgar Thurston between 1905 -10, and the Baluchi cylinder recordings made in 1911. Prior to this, ARCE had also received the collection of A.H. Fox Strangways (1910-19110) and the Ladakh Recordings made by Arnold Bake in 1930s.

 

This programme presents these recordings which will be now available for access at the Archives and Research Centre of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies in Gurgaon. The online web catalogue of the ARCE will also be launched

 

(Collaboration: The Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; and British Library, UK)