With Pandit Kedar Bodas (Khayal) 

Born in a family of professional musicians, Kedar Bodas received initial ta'lim from his grandfather Pandit  Lakshmanrao Bodas who was a direct disciple of Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar of the Gwalior gharana. Subsequently, he learnt from his father Pandit Narayanrao Bodas, Dr. Ashok Ranade, Pandit C. P. Rele, Pandit T.D. Janorikar and Pandit Bhalachandra Pendharkar, thus extending the corpus of his musical knowledge across several gharanas. 

 

For this mehfil, Kedar has chosen to start with raga Shri and then present three rare ragas  - Purva, Malashri & Sangam Kedar - featuring an eclectic selection of bandishes composed by Pandit Bhaskarbua Bakhle, Pandit Ram Marathe and other stalwarts of the Gwalior, Agra and Bhendi Bazar gharanas 

 

(Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research & NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music)

 

Speaker: Dr. Vikram Soni, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia

Chief Guest: Shri Kapil Misra

Chair: Shri Kuldip Nayyar

 

 

The talk brings to focus a new source of water which is invisible – the sandy floodplains of the river. Over 5 km wide and 50 to 100 metres deep, running the length of the river, 40 per cent of its volume is water that is naturally stored, and recharged with the annual monsoon. A local and perennial source of quality drinking water whose potential is yet not wholly understood and which can non-invasively provide water to over 500 cities that exist on the floodplains of rivers. The first such project is presently nearing completion in the northern Yamuna flood plain at Palla in Delhi NCT. 

 

The talk will also encompass the impact of this ecological breakthrough on river cities all over the world

 

Directors: Ruchi Shrivastava & Sumit Khanna

Produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

Recipient of the Rajat Kamal Award for Best Environment Film, National Film Award 2015-16

 

Seldom does a man’s deeds loom so large that they dwarf the very mountains from where they emanate. One such person is Chandi Prasad Bhatt, who has strong claims to being the first modern Indian environmentalist, and arguably also its greatest. One of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, the film seeks to decipher the life, the motivation and work of a man who silently changed the paradigm of environment activism in India and has been described by Ramchandra Guha as one of the finest Indians alive today

 

(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)

 

CANCELLED 

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Charles Tirkey

The exhibition presents photographic images of plants represented through interpretation of early photographic processes

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 26th July 2016 at 18.30

 

Safeguarding India: Essays in Governance and Security

by N.N. Vohra (Gurgaon: Harper Collins, 2016)

 

Opening Remarks by Shri N.N. Vohra, Hon’ble Governor of Jammu and Kashmir

 

Discussants: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Director, Carnegie India; Shri Prakash Singh, IPS (Retd); and Shri Shyam Saran, Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries 

 

Moderator: Cmdre C. Uday Bhaskar

 

 

The Dalit Women's Movement: Status, Struggle and Achievements

Speaker: Asha Kowtal,  leading a new generation of Dalit women in India in their fight against oppression and multiple discrimination; General Secretary,  All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM)

 

(Collaboration: ApneAap Women Worldwide)

 

Director: Aditya Seth who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film explores the matrilineal society of Meghalaya, its socio-political complexities and contextualizes it with the status of women nationally. In a place where the birth of a daughter is welcomed and lineage is traced from the mother’s clan or kur, with changing times, the importance of women is diminishing. Through the stories of three Khasi women, the film reveals their customs and traditions