By the Indian Naval Symphonic Orchestra

 

Conducted by Cmdr V.C. D’Cruz

 

The origin of the Indian Naval Band goes back to 1945 when it was formed with a handful of Naval musicians. It has come a long way since then and today the Navy has many trained musicians in its ranks at various bands across the country. The Indian Naval Band has regaled and enthralled audiences across the country and around the globe. The musicians accompany Naval ships during goodwill visits to many foreign shores, to play in ensemble with the Bands of these foreign nations

 

(Collaboration : The Indian Navy)

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Alan Roland, psychoanalyst, author, artist and playwright/librettist from USA.  He has made seminal contributions in the area of cross-cultural psychology with Asians and Asian Americans, having written three books on the subject

 

Discussants: Dr. Madhu Sarin and Dr. Ashis Nandy

 

Chair: Prof. Honey Oberoi

 

 

 

By Swati Wangnoo Tiwari from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Geetanjali Lal

 

 

 

Carnatic Vocal Recital 

By S.R. Vinay Sharva, disciple of Bangalore S. Shankar and  Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. Nedunuri Krishnamurthy 

Accompanists: G.Raghavendra Prasath (violin) and Kumbakonam N. Padmanaban (mridangam)

 

 

 

 

Carnatic Vocal Recital 

By Srividhya Sairam, disciple of Smt T.M. Prabhavathi of MLV School 

Accompanists: Delhi R. Sridhar (violin) and V. Shankar Raman (mridangam)

CANCELLED

 

 

Photographs by Jade Doskow, architectural and landscape photographer from New York known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, nature, and time

 

 

 

Since 2007, Jade Doskow has been photographing the remains of World’s Fair sites, once iconic global attractions that have often been repurposed for less noble aspirations, or have been neglected and fallen into decay. The exhibition brings together the substantial body of work that Doskow has completed over the past decade, including iconic monuments such as the Seattle Space Needle, the Eiffel Tower, Brussels’ Palais des Expositions and New York’s Unisphere

 

By Shanta Acharya from her latest collection, Imagine and New selected Poems  (HarperCollins)

Chair: Shri Keki N. Daruwalla

 

Shanta Acharya won a scholarship to Oxford, where she was among the first batch of women admitted to Worcester College in 1979. A recipient of the Violet Vaughan Morgan Fellowship, she was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for her work on Ralph Waldo Emerson. The author of ten books, her publications range from poetry, literary criticism and fiction to finance. In addition to her philanthropic activities, she served twice on the board of trustees of the Poetry Society in the UK

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

FRIDAY 10

 

PERFORMANCE ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30 

 

Written by Anuradha Marwah

Directed by Sanjay Kumar, Founder President/Artistic Director, Pandies Theatre, Delhi

 

With Shilpi, Diksha, Sanjukta, Priya, Sameer, Vineet, Lourdes, Parash, Menaka and Indrajit

 

Ismat’s Love Stories (100 min) is about the Urdu writer, Ismat Chughtai and presents her “crooked” characters, her mercurial friendship with Saadat Hasan Manto, and how she turned out to a “total woman after all”. The script was the finalist for the Hindu Playwright Award 2016 and is enacted in English by the well-known Pandies Theatre actors

 

The performance will be followed by a discussion with the entire unit   

DISCUSSION ? SEMINAR ROOMS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

A discussion on Too Many Men, Too Few Women: Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in India and China, edited by Ravinder Kaur

 

Speakers: Professor K.S. James, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Professor Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Professor Ravinder Kaur, IIT, Delhi

 

Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi

 

(Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

 

 

By Officina Zoe', a well–known musical group of "pizzica tarantata", an exciting rhythm from Salento Area in the deepest south of Italy

 

Since 1993 Officina Zoé has one of the groups to propose with most strength the musical traditions of the Salento area, especially the pizzica, that is the ancestral rhythm of Salento soul: exciting and touching, therapeutic and hilarious. From immemorial time pizzica explodes in its absorbing hypnotic expression. A frenzy that induces dance and obsessive movement, so much so that it was used in the past as a trance vehicle or even as a therapeutic source. One of the stronger elements in the musical rebirth of the whole of Southern Italy

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)