Jugni (Firefly; Hindi)
17 May 2016, 05:30 am
Jugni (Firefly; Hindi)
(113 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)
Directed by Shefali Bhushan who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Jugni is about a young Bollywood music producer, Vibhavari who goes to Punjab in search of a folk singer named Bibi Saroop – a character partly based on the sufi singer, Swarn Noora. Jugni meaning firefly in Hindi is also a popular folk song in Punjab about a search. The film includes music produced and sung by A.R. Rahman, Vishal Bharadwaj, Rekha Bharadwaj, Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and others
Strategic and Operational Perspectives of India’s Conflict – 1947-1971
16 May 2016, 05:30 am
Strategic and Operational Perspectives of India’s Conflict – 1947-1971
Programme Type
Discussions
Keynote Comments: Shri M.J. Akbar
Panelists: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Carnegie India; Air Marshal (Retd.) Vinod Patney, former Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force; Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam, SDS (Air), National Defence College; and others
Chair: Shri Nitin Gokhale
Discussion around the new book India’s Wars: A Military History (1947-1971) by Arjun Subramaniam (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2016)
Strategic and Operational Perspectives of India’s Conflict – 1947-1971
Keynote Comments: Shri M.J. Akbar, MP
Guest of Honour: Marshal of the Indian Ari Force, Arjan Singh
Panelists: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Carnegie India; Air Marshal (Retd.) Vinod Patney, former Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force; Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam, SDS (Air), National Defence College; and Maj. Gen. Ian Cardozo, AVSM SM
Chair: Shri Nitin Gokhale
Discussion around the new book India’s Wars: A Military History (1947-1971) by Arjun Subramaniam (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2016)
Narratives for Modernity: The Aesthetics of Brij Mohan Anand
13 May 2016, 05:30 am
Narratives for Modernity: The Aesthetics of Brij Mohan Anand
An exhibition of selected artworks of Brij Mohan Anand (1928-1986)
Curated by Dr. Alka Pande
Inauguration on Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 19:00
Chief Guest: Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture & Tourism; and Minister of State for Civil Aviation
Guest of Honour: Shri Imtiaz Ali, filmmaker
An accomplished artist and commercial illustrator of newspapers, upanyas/novel and educational books, B.M. Anand was a committed socialist. This exhibition showcases aspects of Anand’s distinctive and socially engaged aesthetics, featuring a range of unseen works which are exhibited here for the first time
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
12 May 2016, 05:30 am
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Programme Type
Talks
Composers and Decomposers: Music of The First and Second Viennese Schools
An illustrated talk by Dr Punita G. Singh
Some of the giants of western art music lived and worked in Vienna for seminal periods of their lives. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert dominated the late 18th and early 19th century, composing music characterized by form, elegance and tonal and textural clarity. In contrast with this group referred to as the ‘First Viennese School’, a century later the ‘Second Viennese School’ comprising Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Anton Webern and Alban Berg, dispensed with tonality and experimented with alternative and often dissonant dimensions of sound to create music. Both schools contributed ideas and sounds that have had a significant impact on the evolution of music.
Punita is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi.
Avaaz Do Banner Works
12 May 2016, 05:30 am
Avaaz Do Banner Works
Avaaz Do!
An exhibition of banners by over 400 artists, curators, art teachers and members of the creative community from Mumbai and Delhi
Also on display are freshly re-printed ‘Postcards for Gandhi’
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
11 May 2016, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Shri Jayant Prasad, Director General, Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses; Prof. Nirmala Joshi, former Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Gulshan Dietl, former Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University will discuss Afghanistan Post – 2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories Edited by Rajen Harshé and Dhananjay Tripathi (South Asian ed. New Delhi: Routledge, 2016)
Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, President, South Asian University
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND THE OTHER DIMENSION
11 May 2016, 05:30 am
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND THE OTHER DIMENSION
Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
Seven Wonders of the Muslim World (60 min; 2008; dvd; English)
Director: Faris Kermani
Director: Faris Kermani
Explore the lives and beliefs of six young people whose usual places of worship are some of the most beautiful and historic mosques in the Muslim world. In this series of intimate portraits, join them as thy leave their homes and families to travel to Saudi Arabia on their journeys of a lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca, where the prophet Muhammad was born.
The seven wonders of the title include: The Grand Mosque in Mecca; The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; The Alhambra in Granada, Spain; The Blue Mosque in Istanbul; The Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali; The Imam Mosque in Esfahan, Iran; and The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan