Cultivating Pathways of Creative Research: New Horizons of Transformative Movements, Collaborative Imaginations and Planetary Realizations

 A discussion and launch of  a book by Ananta Kumar Giri,  Madras Institute of Development Studies

 

An Introduction and Invitation to our Trilogy on Creative Research by Professor Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai; Reflections on Pathways of Creative Research: Towards a Festival of Dialogues by Professor John Clammer, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat; Reflections on Cultivating Pathways of Creative Research by Professor T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus and  JNU; Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty, Former Vice-Chancellor, NUEPA and Distinguished Professor, Centurion University, Odisha; Reflections on Research as Realization: Science, Spirituality and Harmony by Dr. Devnath Pathak, Dept. of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi  and  Professor Subhash Sharma, Director, Indus Business Academy, Bangalore

 

Chair: Professor T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: Primus Books)

Concert – Folk Music from Hungary

Presented by The Muzsikás, Hungarian Folk Music Ensemble – Mihály Sipos (violin, citera); Lászlo Porteleki (violin, koboz, vocal); Péter Éri (viola, mandolin, flute, long flute); and Dánile Hamar (contrabass, gardon, drum, cymbals)

With guest artists: Kacsó Hanga (vocal); and Berecz István

 

Winners of the WOMEX Award 2008 for World Music. After 40 years of their unrivalled career, Muzsikás is the most renowned and popular Hungarian folk music worldwide and in their home country as well. Their music can be characterised as the traditional arrangements of authentic Hungarian folk music featuring a style that is typical of the best of village musicians  

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Hungary; and Hungarian Information & Cultural Centre)

 

Sarod and Slide Guitar Duet Recital

By brothers,  Dipanker Roy  from Delhi, disciple of  Ustad Shujaat Khan and Abhijit Roy from Delhi, disciple of Late Pt Bholanath Bhattacharya

 

Vidhi Dialogues

 

Electoral Finance Reforms in India 

Panellists: Dr S.Y. Quraishi (former Chief Election Commissioner of India); and Prof Rajeev Gowda (Member of Parliament and Academic) 

 

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Studies)

 

Martyrs’ Day

 

Women, Partition and Gandhi

Speaker: Ms Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited 

 

Followed by a performance 

Songs of protest and freedom 

by Prof. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University

 

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya International Trust)

 

Shringar – Paintings in Nathdwara Style

This exhibition presents art works done in Nathadwara style by Yugdeepak Soni from Udaipur

Curator: Gargi Seth

 

The tradition of Shrinathji pichwai paintings has been a dynamic one and this exhibition tries to capture the same. Shringar or ornamentation is an integral part of Shrinathji seva (service) in Nathdwara

Inauguration on Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 18:30 by Shri S.S. Krishna Setty, Administrator, Lalit Kala Akademi

 

On 30 & 31 January 2018 from 16:00 to 18:00 in the Annexe Art Gallery

Pichhwai Painting Demonstration

Yugdeepak Soni will conduct a live demonstration and walk through of the exhibition

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste

By Diane Coffey and Dean Spears (Noida: HarperCollins, 2017)

 

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

 

Kathak Recital

By Divya Dikshit from Delhi, disciple of Smt Yogino Gandhi and Shri Munna Shukla

 

ART MATTERS

In conversation with Paramjit Singh

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

How to make sense of the Global Economy alongside a failing WTO?

Speaker: Dr. Mohan Kumar, Vice-Dean and Professor of Diplomatic Practice, OP Jindal School of International Affairs; Vice Chairman, RIS

 

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran

 

The WTO is clearly in the ICU! For years, the mantra in the West was that if a country followed principles of free trade espoused by the GATT/WTO then it was bound to become prosperous. More importantly, free trade was supposed to be a win-win and it was simply a matter of time before the benefits trickled down to all within the country. This thesis has been severely tested for the last decade or so. Curiously, it is precisely over the last decade or so that countries like China (and to a lesser extent India) have exploited both the WTO and Globalization to lift millions out of poverty. Interestingly, both the Global Economy and the WTO are at a crossroads