Carnatic Music - Homage to Past Masters of Violin

Violin recital by R. Sridhar with Uma Ganesan

 

Accompanists: N. Padmanabhan (mridangam); N. Harinarayanan (ghatam); and J. Vignesh (kanjira)

 

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)

Talks, panel discussion.  Screening of excerpts from the documentary ""
 

The Potential Role of Heritage in Building Peace and Reconciliation 

 

Speakers: Dr. Rohit Jigyasu, President, ICOMOS India; Ms. Aparna Tandon, Project Manager, ICCROM and Ms. Aishwarya Tipnis, Conservation Architect

Panelists: Ms. Moe Chiba, UNESCO, New Delhi; Dr. R.C. Agarwal, Archaeologist, Former ASI; Ms. Moulshri Joshi, Modern Asian Architecture Network and Ar. Navin Piplani, VP CIF ICOMOS International 

 

 

(Collaboration: International Council on Monuments and Sites)

 

MEHFIL

With Pandita Shubhada Paradkar (Khayal)

 

Shubhada Paradkar's musical journey started in Baroda where she learnt from Pandit R. D. Potdar and Pandit Madhusudan Joshi of the Kirana and Agra gharanas. However, it was when she came under the tutelage of Pandit Gajananrao Joshi that her musicality received a clear direction. She has also had the good fortune of learning from Pandit Babanrao Haldankar and Vidushi Padmavati Shaligram Gokhale of the Agra and Jaipur-Atrauli gharanas. For this special mehfil, Shubhada Tai would present a select repertoire of ragas and compositions from the Agra and Jaipur-Atrauli gharanas

 

(Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research & NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music)

 

 

ROSALIND WILSON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2017

 

Achieving the Health 2030 Goals: What will it take?

Speaker: Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee

 

(Collaboration: Rosalind Wilson Memorial Trust)

 

Aaj Kavita: Poetry Readings in Hindi 

Prabhat Tripathi, Leeladhar Mandloi, Arunabh Saurabh, Aasteek Vajpeyi

 

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)

 

 

A War Without Winners: Rethinking the 1962 War

Speaker: Dr. Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, King’s College, London and author of Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-62

Chair: Shri Bharat Bhushan

 

Almost 55 years have passed since the War of 1962. To this day, the conflict is remembered as a traumatic defeat for India. But is this all there was to the war? Were the roles of winner and loser so clearly divided between China and India?

 

In her new book, Shadow States, historian Bérénice Guyot-Réchard argues there is another way to understand 1962, as the outcome of a protracted struggle between China and India for the hearts and minds of Himalayan people. On that count, military victory did not give China what it wanted. Beijing might have won the war, but it also lost the peace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Conversation

Susan Visvanathan, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian and writer; and Ratna Raman, Associate Professor at Venkateswara College and columnist, The Tribune Chandigarh  

Chair: Ms. Omita Goyal, Chief Editor, IIC 

 

They will discuss Susan Vivanathan’s new book, Adi Sankara and other Stories (pub: Papyrus Scrolls Publications, 2017), which engages with the plural religious traditions of India and the questions of freedom of faith

 

(Collaboration: Papyrus Scrolls Publications)