Readings from CAPITALS: Poetic Portraits of the Capital Cities of the World 

Edited by Abhay K.

 

The contributors include Derek Walcott, Mark Strand, Ruth Padel, Ernesto Cardenal, Vijay Seshadri, George Szirtes among other poets from 185 countries

 

Chair:  Shri Pavan Varma, M.P.

 

Abhay K. Is an Indian poet-diplomat and the author of  two memoirs and five collections of poems

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Subhasish Bhawal from Kolkata, disciple of Pt.  Samaresh Chawdhury, Pt. Ramashreya Jha and Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar  

 

 

An exhibition of abstract paintings 

By Hector Ramiro Monsalve from Colombia

 

Preview on Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 18:30

 

On account of Republic Day, the Art Gallery will remain closed on 26 January 2017

 

 

Mehru Jaffer is a free-lance journalist based in Lucknow. She is the author of several books

Seema Mustafa is the founder editor of The Citizen, based in New Delhi. 

 

Both women journalists have written extensively on women's rights, on the Muslim Personal Law, and issues of communal harmony

 

 

Xinjiang - China’s Northwest Frontier

Edited by K. Warikoo (Oxon: Routledge, 2016)

 

Discussants: Ambassador G.S. Iyer, former Ambassador and author of A China Primer; and Prof. Riyaz Punjabi, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Kashmir

 

Chair: Ambassador Rajiv Sikri, formerly India’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Secretary East, Ministry of External Affairs

 

A Workshop for school students based on the local monuments of Delhi

 

(Collaboration: The Heritage and Communication Service of INTACH)

 

 

 

Classical Dance: The Future We Want

Through this special informal interaction, dancers Geeta Chandran and Aditi Mangaldas will explore the future they want through their dialogue, interaction and demonstration

 

 

 

 

 

The Man Who Dwarfed the Mountains (52 min; 2015; dvd; English)

Directors: Ruchi Srivastava & Sumit Khanna

 

Film on the life of Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the first modern environmentalist of India

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

 

 

Parsing – The Mind’s Eye

An exhibition of glass and light

By Vijay Kowshik, senior artist

 

Inauguration on Friday 20 January 2017 at 18:30

 

The exhibition delves into the mind of the artist with expressions thrown from his agitated psyche striving to extract experiences from the collective consciousness. The medium of expression is ceramic in which glass is his main motivation. The works juxtapose the inner feelings of the artist through the plasticity of the material at high temperatures. The amalgamation evokes a strange quality of thrill and joy in the making, which manifests itself finally in the works. The play of light through glass with refractions and reflections give a strange mysterious quality to the works

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker : Dr. Navina Haidar

(Collaboration: Deccan Heritage Society; and School of Planning and Architecture)