BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Two books by Audrey Truschke will be discussed - Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth (New Delhi: Sage, 2017) and Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Gurgaon: Allen Lane, 2016)

 

Discussants: Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi; Prof. Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi; and Prof. Najaf Haider, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Prof. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi

 

Piano Recital

By Apurva Devarajan

 

Apurva was selected Young Musician of the Year, 2016 by the Olga and Jules Craen Foundation and NCPA, Mumbai

 

(Collaboration: The Olga and Jules Craen Foundation; and Delhi Music Society)

 

Buddhist Landscape of Varanasi: An Archaeological Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Vidula Jayaswal , Prof. R. C. Sharma Chair, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi

 

Chair: Dr.(Mrs) Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: TWO LECTURES ON VARANASI: 10 &11 July 2017

 

Archaeology of  Varanasi

Speaker: Prof. Vidula Jayaswal , Prof. R. C. Sharma Chair, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi

 

Chair :Shri B.M. Pande

 

Climate Change: Its Science, Effects and Mitigation Strategies

Speaker: Shri Krishan Kalra, an engineer by training, formerly Additional Secretary-General, FICCI; former Secretary-General, PHD Chamber of Commerce; also President of the All India Management Association & also Delhi Management Association; presently does voluntary work in the areas of skill development, health care, environment conservation, urban development and empowerment of differently abled people

Chair: Shri Pradip Burman, Chairman of Dabur Nepal Pvt Limited (since Nov 2004), a subsidiary of Dabur International  Limited.; Trustee of the Climate Reality Project in India which is a branch of Al’Gore’s Climate initiative
 
 

 

Climate Change is no longer a mystery, it is not the imagination of some scientists - as non-believers would say a few years ago. It is today a harsh reality, evidenced by frequent extreme weather events like cloud bursts, flash floods and droughts happening all too often. Everyone needs to know about the simple science behind it, it's severe effects on our lives and - most importantly - realize that human action is largely responsible for the sorry state of affairs. Human action alone can arrest the deadly march and mitigate the damage

 

 

Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque of the Asiatic Society, 2016

To be presented to Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan by Dr.  S.B. Chakravarti, General Secretary, The Asiatic Society

 

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh, MP

 

“This award is given annually to an eminent person of international repute for significant contribution to international understanding/inter-cultural co-operation or for significant contribution towards human progress.”

 

The creation of this award was first made by the Council in its meeting held on 17.11.1984, conferring the award to a person of eminence was started since 1985

 

(Collaboration: The Asiatic Society, Kolkata)

 

Mexican Amate: Expressions of Art

An exhibition of traditional Mexican folk art on Amate paper – a type of paper made from bark that pre-dates the Hispanic period in Mexico. The craft resulted from the merging of two indigenous traditions: the Otomi people who created the bark paper, and the Nahua people who were traditional ceramic painters

 

Inauguration by Mr. Eduardo Martínez Curiel, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Mexico on Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Mexico)

 

CREEDS OF OUR TIME

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Earth Sutra (84 mins; 2016; dvd; English)

A film by Jordi Carot & Jose Sáenz de Heredia

 

Earth Sutra is an 8-year film project that portrays the survival of Tibet and it's culture in exile. A reflection about how Tibetan culture and values can help the world to face the global crisis in the 21st century.

 

Throughout history, Tibet, as a people and a culture, has focused much of its efforts on the search for individuals who can develop themselves as Bodhisattvas, beings engaged in the pursuit of supreme enlightenment. An ideal of life whose main objective is to reduce suffering, both from themselves and from the others, aspiring to a universal liberation. Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, says that “Mother Earth is the most beautiful Bodhisattva”. As inhabitants of our planet we must find ways to preserve and ensure its future and thus develop ourselves as conscious and interrelated beings with their environment

 

(Collaboration: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

 

The Prambanam Temple and Javanese Hinduism

 

Cosmic Harmony (26 minutes; dvd; English)

Director: Fred Wibowo

 

This documentary is representation of our modern world where technologies and industries create greatness and arrogant monuments which at the same time also bring distances with our daily lives. Technologies and industries tend to endanger harmony and make our lives unpleasant because of the waste pollution from industries and technologies.

Our ancestors in the past have actually created greatness through Prambanan Temple in harmony with nature, cosmic harmony- a harmony between the creator and creatures. The description of living harmony can be learned through the 135 reliefs of Kalpataru trees at the Prambanan Temple area.

 

This documentary has been created to understand and explore the role of spirituality of religion in this modern world

 

Followed by a talk: 

Speaker:  Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray, historian and former Chairperson of National Monuments Authority, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies (CHS), Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Indonesia)

 

 

After The Elusive Light: Photographing Ladakh

Portraits and landscapes by Isaac Tsetan Gergan from Ladakh

 

Preview on Tuesday, 4 July 2017 at 18:30