Amar Nath Sehgal – A Portrait

(22 min; 2018; dvd; English)

Directed by Rajiv Mehrotra who will introduce the film

 

Followed by A Glimpse of the Museum

Illustrated walk through of the Amar Nath Sehgal Museum

 

Opening Address by Rajan Sehgal

 

(Collaboration: The Amar Nath Sehgal Private Collection)

 

International Symposium on Creativity and Freedom: 5 and 6 February 2019

A two day symposium organised in collaboration with Ashoka University; and Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata

 

The symposium will discuss and address concerns in Art History, Fine Art Practice, Music, Theatre, Design, Literature, and Cultural Studies, including popular culture, Architecture, Film and the increasing concern with ‘wellness’, both physical and mental. Speakers include Nicholas Coleridge; Gopalkrishna Gandhi; T.N. Ninan; William Dalrymple; Suman Mukherjee; Deborah Swallow; Dr. Wang Chunchen; Sabyasachi Mukherjee; Prof. Amareswar Galla; Catherine David; Patrizia Asproni; Shahid Amin; Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri; Shubhra Gupta; Anna Vetticad; Sergio Scapagnini and others.

 

As part of this symposium, on 6th February, there will be an exhibition and a cultural programme

6 FEBRUARY 2019 

GANDHI-KING MEMORIAL PLAZA

Project Varanasi

IIT Kharagpur interrogates the multifarious cultural and plural components of the ancient living city of Varanasi through its mumtivocal and contemporary scientific lens

 

FOUNTAIN LAWNS AT 19:00

Qawwali

By Jameel Ahmed and party from Rampur

Organised by the Agha Khan Foundation

 

For details of the symposium, kindly please log onto www.cimaartindia.com

 

Embracing the intimacy and flexibility of the traditional piano trio format, the group’s game is highly interactive, collaborative and improvisation driven. Interweaving hip-hop-grooves with Ethiopian harmonies, folk tunes with reggaeton and the Beatles with bhangra, the trio’s sounds emanate beyond genre or cultural specificity, infinite, indefinite and open to interpretation

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Mexico)

 

Pastoralisms and Civilizations

Speaker: Prof. Thomas R. Trautmann, well-known scholar of Ancient India and Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology, University of Michigan; and considered one of the world's leading experts on the Arthashastra, the ancient Hindu text on kinship

 

Chair: Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri

 

This lecture will show how the pastoralisms of the ancient civilizations differ from one another, especially the role of animals in armies. The distinctive ideal of Indian “fourfold” armies added elephants to threefold armies of cavalry, chariotry and infantry. This configuration helps explain why the first unification of India by the Nandas and Mauryas came from the eastern region, with its abundance of wild elephants, and not its western region, exposed to the Persian Empire

 

(61 min; 2018; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Meera Dewan who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A documentary celebrating 12th century mystic poet, Farid al-Din Mas’ud Ganj-i-Shakar

 

(Collaboration: Guild of Service; Indo-Persian Studies Institute; and Chishthy Foundation)