INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

The Monastic Art of Sirpur

Illustrated lecture by Dr. P.K. Misra, Director, World Heritage, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Dr. D.M. Dimri

MONDAY 21

 

COMMEMORATION  ? GANDHI-KING MEMORIAL PLAZA/ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM FROM 10:30 TO 12:15

90th Birthday Commemoration of Dr Martin Luther King Jr

 

Celebration of the Power of Non-Violent Action

& the Life of Martin Luther King Jr [15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968]
 

Commemoration Service 10.30 am to 11.00 am – Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza
 

Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR
 

Interactive Session 11.15 am to 12.15 pm – C.D.  Deshmukh Auditorium 

Theme of the Interactive Session:

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that".

- Martin Luther King, Jr, from a sermon given at the Dexter Baptist Church, November 17, 1957 

Special Address by Representative of the US Mission in India

During the Interactive Session a short film on Martin Luther King's Life shall be screened 

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker (Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

Students from Schools of Delhi NCR to participate 

 

The day marks the 49th anniversary of the Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza. The Plaza was inaugurated on 21 January 1970 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

 This programme is part of the Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

 
(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Biradari and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Mucking up the Mediterranean (52 min; dvd; English)

Only 300 Monk Seals, it is estimated, are now left in the Mediterranean Sea. This gradual disappearance of the monk seal is not only an indicator of a species going extinct but also of the degradation of the Mediterranean Sea. Over-development, fishing, relentless dumping of industrial waste and sewage have turned the sea into a breeding ground for diseases. The prospect of cleaning up also looks grim

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia

Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Urdu, Asian languages and Literature, University of Washington

 

Chair: Prof. Mohammed Asaduddin, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

This talk introduces the world of late 19th century Urdu print, in which a dynamic and interactive literary culture flourished. Readers and writers cultivated cosmopolitan affiliations in the pages of Urdu – language periodicals and newspapers such as Avadh Akhbar and Avadh Punch

 

 

Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared

Discussion around the book edited by Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry

 

Discussants: Prof. Prasenjit Duara; Prof. T.G. Suresh, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Propf. Sonika Gupta, IIT Chennai

 

Chair: Ambassador Shiv Shankar Menon 

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)

Are Print Resources Lifeline for the Libraries?

With a wider question: whether in the age of ICT the survival of print media is synonymous  to survival of libraries

 

Panelists: Prof Neera Chandhoke; Dr Sukrita Paul Kumar; Dr. Babli Moitra Saraf; Dr.  HK  Kaul; and Ms Shafina Segon

 

 

CULTURE AND HERITAGE

Coordinated by Amita Beig

 

Reviving Char Bagh at Itimad ud Daulah’s Tomb in Agra  

Speaker: Dr. Amita Baig, Representative, India, World Monuments Fund and author

 

Chair: Dr. Shikha Jain, founder Director, DRONAH

The Rise of China in the International Monetary System
 

Speaker: V. Srinivas, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions, Govt. of India
Chair; Dr. Indira Rajaraman

 

 

A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Shekhawati

 

Illustrated lecture by Dr. David Zurick, American geographer and photographer, author of numerous award-winning books on South Asia and Tibet. A recipient of the Association of American Geographers “Mt. Everest Award” for lifetime achievement in Himalayan Studies and is a Fellow of the Explorers Club

 

Lecture based on the new book of the same title which portrays the fascinating ruinous beauty of the painted towns of Shekhawati in Rajasthan. The talk will also present an intimate look at life and landscape on the arid fringes of Rajasthan

 

WEDNESDAY 16

 

PLAY  ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00

Ek Mamooli Aadmi (90 min)

Playwright/Producer: Ashok Lal

 

2018 marks the silver jubilee year of this iconic Hindi play inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru. Ek Mamooli Aadmi underlines those features of an urban middle class setting which make the yearning for real happiness an agonizing experience. The play also accentuates the contours of a system in which even biological relations are bound to breed loneliness and family becomes fatal to an individual