Shri Arjun Asrani, former Indian Ambassador to Japan; Prof. H.S. Prabhakar, Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Shri Anand K. Sahay, The Asian Age will discuss Half a Century: My Connections with Japan: A Memoir by Aftab Seth (Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 2015)

 

Chair: Shri Shiv Shankar Mukherji

 

Speaker: PADMA SHRI Dr. Raman kapur, Chairman, Department of Medical Acupuncture , Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

 

 

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC-International Research Division

 

 

 The talk will be followed by an interactive session with treatment using “ear seeds”.

 

 

Historical Relationship of Bollywood Music and Indonesian Dangdut (a form of popular Indonesian music)

Presentation by Andrew Weintraub, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music. Author of Power Plays: Awayng Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Ohio University Press, 2004) and the coeditor of Music and Cultural Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

 

Chair: Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General ( Academic ) Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies

 

 A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry 

 

 

 

 

Illustrated lecture by Shri Amardeep Singh, former Head of Revenue & Pricing Management, American Express (Asia Pacific Region), Singapore

 

Introduction: Dr. J.S. Juneja

 

Chair: Shri Kuldip Nayar, noted  journalist

 

The lecture is based on his book of the same title which captures the distinctive Sikh contribution to the spiritual, social, cultural and architectural history of present-day Pakistan, over which a curtain was drawn at Partition in 1947. The author embarked on a journey of discovery that covered 37 cities across Pakistan

 

Tribute by the Chief Guest Shri L.K. Advani who will share memories of his association with the late Shri Vasant Sathe

 

Followed by

Concert: Hindustani Vocal 

By Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar, well-known exponent of Jaipur Gharana who will present a concert of Haveli Bhakti Sangeet and Thumri

Speaker: Dr. T.C.A. Raghavan, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan

 

Chair: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Carnegie India

 

Dr. Raghavan will present an overview of developments over the past three years in Pakistan, touching on its internal situation, important external relationships and on bilateral relations with India

 

 

An exhibition of paintings by Dr. Iris Odyuo from Nagaland

 

Opening on Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 18:30

 

There is conflict around us, with most of us losing confidence and our faith almost gone. The exhibition is an attempt to put faith in the goodness in each one of us and tray to heal each other’s world

 

For detail screening schedule, kindly please check www.iawrtindia.blogspot.in and www.iicdelhi.in