WINTER FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND MUSIC: 12 AND 13 DECEMBER 2017

 

12 December: An Evening of Hindustani Music

 

18:00   

Sitar Recital

By  Kalyan Majumdar from Kolkata, son and disciple of  Shri Subhajit  Majumdar  

 

At 19:00  

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Avinash Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Pt Tushar Dutt, Ustad Aftab Ahmed Khan and Pt Somnath Mardur

 

My House is a Le Corbusier 

An illustrated talk by Mr. Cristian Chironi, an artist from Italy

Chair: Mr. Andrea Baldi, Director, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre

 

Following a series of residences and encounters in structures by Le Corbusier in Italy, France and Argentina, Cristian Chironi with My House is a Le Corbusier, took up temporary residence at the Pierre Jeanneret House Museum in Chandigarh.  My house is a Le Corbusier (begun in 2015), is intended to evolve over the long term and culminate in the totality of all the experiences that Chironi will undergo while actually living for variable periods of time in the many homes designed by Le Corbusier around the world. The long-term project (which will unfold over the potential arc of 30 habitable homes by Corbusier in 12 countries) is a performance, stretched out over time, house after house

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

 

Sangin Beg: Sair-ul-Manazil

Release and discussion on Sair ul Manazil written in the 1820s.  The original was written in Persian by a person known as Sangin Beg. Translation into English by the late Nausheen Jaffery and edited and introduced by Swapna Liddle

 

Speakers: Professor Amar Farooqui; Shri Sohail Hashmi; Dr. Swapna Liddle and others

Moderator: Prof. Azizuddin Husain , Jamia Millia Islamia

 

The book is the first attempt to systematically list the monuments of the city of Delhi. Apart from public buildings like mosques, temples, shrines and tombs, it lists wells, gardens, houses, shops and stray graves. This was in itself a formidable task, and one that might easily have resulted in a very dry and tedious document. The author, however, considerably enlivens it by a description of the various localities of the city, of the people who lived and worked there in his time, social activities and fairs, and historical anecdotes connected with places and people 

 

(Collaboration: Tulika Books)

 

Aribam Syam Sharma (28 min; 2006; dvd; English)

Director: Gurumayum Nirmal Sharma

 

The film will be introduced by Somendrajit Naorem

 

Film on Aribam Syam Sharma, arguably the most accomplished filmmaker in Manipur and a leading figure in Indian cinema. A recipient of the Padma Shri, his body of work includes features as well as documentary films that have received critical international acclaim

 

Following the screening, there will be a talk on

 

Aribam Syam Sharma and Cinema in Manipur

Speaker: Somendrajit Naorem, Lecturer in History, Kha Manipur College, Manipur who is presenting working on his PhD thesis Demystifying the Cinematic Encounter in Northeast India: An Experience from Manipur

 

Release of Centre for Women’s Development Studies’ 2018 calendar Women at the Midnight Hour

Based on rare archival photographs, the calendar focuses on two women members of the Constituent Assembly, Dakshayani Velayudhan and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Release of the calendar by Meera Velayudhan, daughter of Dakshayani Velayudhan and Manjari Mehta, granddaughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

 

Recollection of the Midnight Hour, August, 14-15, 1947 

Speakers:  Aparna Basu and Sharada Nayak,will speak briefly of their recollections of the Midnight Hour,  August 14-15, 1947

 

Importance of Women in the National Movement

Speaker: Subhashini Ali, granddaughter of  Ammu Swaminathan, another member of the Constituent Assembly

 

(Centre for Women’s Development Studies)

 

Will India and Pakistan ever have good neighbourly relations?

Speakers: Shri Gaurav Gogoi, MP; General (Retd.) Deepak Kapoor, former Chief of the Army Staff; Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, former Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to France and Russia; Shri Gurcharan Das, writer; Ambassador Pavan Varma, former MP, writer and columnist; Ambassador Sharat Sabharwal, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; Ambassador T.C. A. Raghavan, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; and Shri Saeed Naqvi, senior journalist and TV presenter

 

Chair: Ambassador Surendra Kumar, Founding President, IAFA

 

(Collaboration: Indo-American Friendship Association)

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un) Making of Kin in India

By Anindita Majumdar (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017)

 

Panellists: Prof. Vinod Paul, Member, Niti Aayog; Prof. Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law & Executive Director, Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance, National Law University; and Dr. Rita Brara, Visiting Faculty, Delhi School of Economics

 

Chair: Prof. Ravinder Kaur, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi