A monologue on the life and times of Wilfred Bion, world renowned psychoanalyst

Conceived and written by Meg Harris Williams

 

Performed and directed by Tom Alter

 

 

 

 

 

Percussion maestro, Shri T. R. Dhandapany along with his disciples under the ‘Guru Shishya Parampara’ will be sharing his research on rare Carnatic taalas (sulaadi sapta taalas) through a lecture demonstration on Mridangam and Konnakol. The theory of taala patterns and imposition of different gatis (speed cycles) will be explained through demonstration of various compositions. This will be followed by a talavadhyakucheri on one of these rare taalas to demonstrate the practical applicability of these rarely performed taalas 

 

Performers: Shri  M.V. Chandrashekhar, Shri  Adithya Krishnan,  Shri  Anuraag and Shri  Sathyanarayanan  on mridangam; Shri D. Kartik Narayanan on mridangam / kanjira;  Shri  Prasanna Sampath  on dholak;  and Shri Srinivasan on ghatam

 

 

 

By Ashvini Modak from Pune, disciple of Dr. Prabha Atre

 

 

 

 

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

By Pankaj Mishra (New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2017)

 

Panelists: Dr. Niraja Gopal Jayal, Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies;  Professor Zoya Hasan, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Prof. Peter DeSouza,CSDS

 

Chair: Dr. Ashis Nandy, Sociologist and Fellow, CSDS

 

 

A collage of monologues based on three stories by Satyajit Ray: Bijuka, Anukul & Kleptomania and Weekend, a monologue by Nirmal Verma

 

Designed and directed by R’jesh Bali

Presented by Drastha India

 

 

Speaker: Shri Arun Goyal, IAS, presently Additional Secretary, GST Council and head of the Project Monitoring Group, PMO

 

Chair: Air Marshal Naresh Verma, AVSM, VSM (Retd.)

 

 

 

An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet

Presented under Guru-Shishya Parampara by Guru Prabuddha Raha and his disciple Arkapriya Bannerjee from Kolkata

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

 

 

Mere Desh ki Dharti (52 min; 2006; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sumit Khanna

 

Recipient of the Award for Best Investigative Film, 54th National Film Awards 2006

 

In our effort to achieve food security, have we compromised on food safety? The film investigates the impact of pesticides as it enters the food chain

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)