Speakers: Dr. Sunanda Sen; Dr. B S Chimni; and Professor Manoranjan Mohanty

 

Chair: Professor Muchkund Dubey 

 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

A collaborative photography project by five emerging photographers – Ankit Agrawal on Making of Tanpura; Mrigank Kulshrestha on The Fading Whirl of the Looms – Muga Silk from Assam; Taha Ahmad on Mukaish work from Lucknow; Vikas Gupta on An Aura of Analogue Age which captures the last generation of analogue photographers residing in the small historic town of Kurukshetra; and Bharat Tiwari on Chanderi Weavers

 

Curated and mentored by Aditya Arya and Parthiv Shah

 

Inauguration on  Friday, 21st April 2017 at 6.30 pm  by Dr. (Mrs.) Kapila Vatsyayan
Guest of Honour: Purnima Rai 
 

(Collaboration: Neel Dongre Awards/Grants for Excellence in Photography; and India Photo Archive Foundation)

 

 

 

 

Panorama of Bengal Arts

Prayaschitto

D.L. Roy’s musical play directed by Anjan Kanjilal

Presented by Green Room Theatre, New Delhi

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

 

 

Arts from the Banks of the Brahmaputra

Sattriya choreography with folk and tribal dances

By Guru Ranjumoni Saikia and the Sangeet Sattra Ensemble, Guwahati

 

Followed by

Bollywood Melodies of Bhupen Hazarika and Other Legends

By Sudip Basu, well-known composer and singer from Kolkata

 

 

Arts from the Banks of the Brahmaputra

Sattriya choreography with folk and tribal dances

By Guru Ranjumoni Saikia and the Sangeet Sattra Ensemble, Guwahati

 

Followed by

Bollywood Melodies of Bhupen Hazarika and Other Legends

By Sudip Basu, well-known composer and singer from Kolkata

 

 

 

Kalpatru, The Wishing Tree

Children's Puppet Theatre by Dadi D. Pudamjee

 

At 18:30

Ghalib In New Delhi

Presented by Pierrot's Troupe 

Written & directed by Dr. M. Sayeed Alam

 

(Collaboration: Pallavi Arts)

 

 

An Evening of  Poems and Memoirs

 

By Shailendra Shail from his latest collection of poems “Kavita Mein Sab Kuchh Sambhav” and his  memoirs 

Dr. Ganga Prasad Vimal will introduce his works

 

Chair: Shri Leeladhar Mandloi

 

Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

A presentation by Ashok Bhowmick, a senior renowned artist is also known as a “Master of Cross Hatching”; a multitalented individual and practicing artist and sculptor since more than four decades; writer and thinker whose scholarship revolves around gender issues. 

 

The presentation is aimed to bring before the audience the image of women in Indian paintings and also attempt to identify its manifestations in society. It will also discuss the voice of protest and resistance against such inequality by the progressive Indian painters heralded by painters like Amrita Sher-Gill and Rabindranath Tagore

 

(Collaboration:  Studio Abhyas and One Billion Rising) 

 

 

WHEN THE GODS BEGIN TO DANCE IN ANGKOR 

Architecture for the Dancing God: Hall with Dancers in the Jayavarman VII Temples.

Speaker: Dr. Swati Chemburkar

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

The spiritual power of dance in Cambodia has been valued since pre-Angkorian times, and plentiful images of dance and music in the bas-reliefs of the great monuments of Angkor suggest that this tradition was markedly enhanced in the reign of Jayavarman VII, as a contemporary Chinese report attests. Focusing on the ‘halls with dancers’, a distinct architectural feature of Jayavarman VII’s temples, the article explores the link between the architecture, associated inscriptions, dance and music rituals evolving in Angkor and contemporary Chola temples that housed several mandapas. The lecture argues that the architecture of the halls with dancers worked in tandem with ritual practices to provide a symbolic and possibly actual space for encountering divine