An evening of music and dance celebrating Krishna, protector of the environment

 

Keynote presentation by Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami, eminent scholar, Radharamana Mandir, Vrindavan

 

Performance by Rene Singh, well-known sufi singer with Kathak by Shivani Salotra

 

(Collaboration: Guild of Service)

 

By Sougata Ganguly from Kolkata, disciple of the late Sangeetacharya Ajoy Sinha Roy and late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

 

 

Directed by Noemie Verdon who will introduce the film

Produced by Serabibi Multimedia Association

Moderator: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray



 

Filmed in Uzbekistan, Iran and Pakistan during the summer of 2012, the film is about Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni, the Perso-Muslim thinker of Central Asia

 

An exhibition of photographs by Ajit Rana 

 

Inauguration by Shri Kishan Rana and Col. Jugraj S. Kanhai on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 18:30

FOCUS SRI LANKA: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS

 

FILM

Let Her Cry (Sri Lanka)

(105 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

A film by Ashok Handagama

 

A university professor appears to be having an affair with a young female student; his behavior threatening the carefully established routine of his middle class family

 

WEDNESDAY 24 TO 30

 

EXHIBITION  ? ANNEXE ART GALLERY, 11:00 TO 19:00

People & Landscapes of the Living Deserts of Rajasthan and Ladakh

An exhibition of photographs by Ajit Rana 

 

Inauguration by Shri Kishan Rana and Col. Jugraj S. Kanhai on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 18:30

 

FOCUS SRI LANKA: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS

 

DISCUSSION

Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness

Panelists: Dr. Jagath Weerasinghe, Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Colombo and Senior Artist; Prof. Roma Chatterjee, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi; Dr. Dev Pathak ,Department of Sociology, South Asian University; Dr. Susan Visvanathan, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Pradeep Jaganathan, Graduate Studies Advisor, Shiv Nadar University

 

With Prof. Sasanka Perera, Department of Sociology,  South Asian University

 

Chair: Dr. Ravi Kumar, South Asian University

 

Post-1980s Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence. This has caused deaths and destructions of considerable magnitude. Some of this violence and their consequences have been documented while many remain undocumented. How is such extraordinary institutionalized violence remembered? This discussion based on Prof Sasanka Perera’s recent book, Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness (2016) delves into the details of violence, and more importantly the memories associated with this violence. While there may be manifold attempts to erase, there are also many evocative recapitulations and representations, merging political and personal, ordinary and extraordinary, civil and artistic which negotiate with the burden of memory. 

 

 (Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

 

 

Focus Sri Lanka: Contemporary Views

 

A special focus on Sri Lanka today through exhibitions; discussions and film screening organized in collaboration with the South Asian University; Sri Lanka High Commission; and with the support of Sri Lankan Airlines

 

 

 

Exhibition 

 

Portraits of Resistance

 

Curators: Anoli Perera, Theertha International Artists’ Collective, Colombo; and Dr. Dev Pathak, Department of Sociology, South Asian University

 

Participating artists: Jagath Weerasinghe, Anoli Perera, Bandu Manamperi, Pala Pothupitiya, Anura Krishanta, Pradeep Chandrasiri, Pradeep Talawatte, Thisath thoradeniya and Pushpakumara Koralegedera

 

Each of the artists have tried to capture a portrait of a nation whose historical trajectory has gone through strained moments that are heavy with colonial legacies, homeland claims, armed conflicts, autocratic rules and polarized ethnic politics

 

 

Inauguration on Monday, 22 August 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

Organised in collaboration with Department of Sociology, South Asian University; Society and Culture in South Asia Journal; India-Sri Lanka Foundation; and Theertha International Artists Collective, Colombo

 

 

 

Under the People Tree: A Meeting of Hands, Heads and Hearts

Speakers: Orijit Sen and Gurpreet Sidhu, The People Tree

 

First lecture in the Lila Prism series for 2016

 

(Collaboration: Lila Foundation for Translocal Initiatives)

 

By Anand Seshadri, Indian pianist presently based in Budapest

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Bartok

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

 

Edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray with Foreword by Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC – International Research Division and published by Manohar Publishers, New Delhi

 

The editor will briefly introduce the book

 

Discussants: Prof. Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University, USA; and Shri  B. M. Pande, former Director of the Archaeological Survey of India

 

Chairperson: Shri  Nalin Surie, Director-General, Indian Council of World Affairs

 

Part of the international conference: Heritage in Context: Balancing the Global with the Local

Organised in collaboration with the Anneliese Maier Research Programme, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich) and Nalanda University (Rajgir) and International Research Division