MAHATMA GANDHI: 150 YEARS

 

Gandhi As a Dissenter

Inaugural lecture by Prof. Ashis Nandy

 

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

First in a new series of programmes organised from October 2018 to October 2019 to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation

 

FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

A Second Life (30 min; 2004; dvd; English)

Director: Nutan Manmohan

 

Recipient of the Delhi Chief Minister’s Special Award, CMS Vatavaran Film Festival

 

Through the experiences of two children, the film investigates the murky side of information technology, whereby tonnes of hazardous e-waste is seeping into developing countries like India

 

Ambi Jiji’s Retirement (30 min; 2006; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Nandini Bedi

 

Recipient of the First Prize, Jeevika South Asia Right Livelihood Award; and Zee News Livelihood Award, CMS Vatavaran

 

Ambi Jiji always planted her crops on soil where forests have been burnt. This jhum field would then be abandoned and left to regenerate into a forest and a new one burnt. However, increasingly, jhum fields are being turned into orchards which provide cash and food security. Through Ambi Jiji and her daughters, we witness the passing of a way of life in a remote village in Meghalaya

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

 

Discussion  ¦ Conference Room I at 18:30

Book Discussion Group

 

Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India

Edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani (New Delhi: OUP, 2018)

 

Discussants: Ms Shailaja Chandra, former Secretary in the Ministry of Health; Prof. Ravinder Kaur, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi; and Prof. Jean Dreze, development economist and activist, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ranchi

 

Chair: Prof. Ramila Bisht, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

 

To Mark the 100th Anniversary of Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary

 

Lu Xun’s or the World’s Madman

Speakers: Roman Shapiro (Russia); Emily Mae Graft (Germany); Taku Kurashige (Japan); Raman Sinha (JNU); Senno Takumasa (Japan); and H.L. Kim (Korea)

 

Moderator: Hemant Adlakha, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Lu Xun, who wrote under the pen name of Zhou Shuren, was the most influential fiction writer in modern Chinese history. Lu Xun was part of the New Culture Movement of the 1910s, which essentially tried to pull China out of imperial times and into the modern age. He studied in Japan to become a doctor, but then famously decided that it was the minds, not the bodies, of the Chinese people that needed to be cured – through literature. Mao Zedong called him the sage of modern China. A Madman’s Diary is one of Lu Xun’s best-known short stories, written in 1918 about the inability to see reason

 

(Collaboration: Centre for Chinese & Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Institute of Chinese Studies)

 

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Coming of Age: Aging and its Global and Local Politics

Speaker: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences and History, Interim co-Director, Robert N. Butler, Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University, New York

 

Discussant: Rama Baru, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Mathew Cherian, Chief Executive Officer, Helpage India

 

The talk is based on Kavita Sivaramakrishnan’s new book As the World Ages: The Making of a Demographic Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2018). The aging of populations worldwide is being projected as a new, ‘grey Tsunami’ and crisis for economies and societies. Just as fears of a ‘population explosion’ in the 1980s were a concern about too many dependent children on the planet to feed; population aging is made out to be a crisis of too many dependent, aged persons to care for that will burden economies and societies

 

Release of State of India’s Business Responsibility and CSR Report

A civil society perspective

 

(Collaboration: Business & Community Foundation)

Inaugural Session of South Asian Literature Festival

Inauguration, Seminars, Poetry Readings, Film

Welcome Address: Smt Ajeet Cour, President FOSWAL

 

Chief Guest: Prof. Chandrashekhara Kambara, President, Sahitya Akademi

Keynote Address: Prof. Ashis Nandy, Political psychologist, social theorist

Special Address: Shri Piyush Srivastava, Joint Secretary SAARC, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India; and Shri Buddhadeb Dasgupta, eminent filmmaker who will speak on Cinema and Literature

 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature)

 

 

UTTARADHIKAR 2018

 

Hindustani Vocal

By Dr. Sarita Pathak Yajurvedi, disciple of Guru Smt Sulochana Brahaspati

 

Odissi

By Arushi Mudgal, disciple of Guru Smt Madhavi Mudgal

UTTARADHIKAR 2018

 

Hindustani Vocal

By Sawani Mudgal, disciple of Guru Pt. Madhup Mudgal

 

Bharatanatyam

By Himanshu Srivastava, disciple of Guru Smt Saroja Vaidyanathan

UTTARADHIKAR 2018: 3 TO 5 OCTOBER 2018

A platform for the next generation organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation

 

Sarod

By Ayaan Ali Bangash, disciple of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

 

Kathak

By Shivani Varma, disciple of Guru Smt Shovana Narayan