THE IIC DOUBLE BILL CONCERT
THE IIC DOUBLE BILL CONCERT
Odissi Recital
By Mrinalini Biswas from Kolkata, disciple of Smt Muktilata Pal and Guru Shib Narayan Banerjee
Followed by
Kathak Recital
By Swati Sinha from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Rajendra Gangani
The Story of Vimor
The Story of Vimor
An exhibition on Vimor’s 45 year journey of documenting, reviving and supporting hand-loom weavers. The exhibition presents old textile samples and photographs; old/antique sarees and the new revived versions of the sarees; revival of designs and techniques; and the success story of the weavers
Curated and presented by Pavithra Muddaya
Inauguration by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor on Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 18:00
The inauguration will be followed by a Conversation with Smt Pavithra Muddaya and Smt Jasleen Dhamija
Art Matters
Art Matters
Her Theatre
by Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, Kirti Jain and Maya K. Rao
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
Creating Zero Waste Communities and Households
Creating Zero Waste Communities and Households
A discussion
Speakers: Shri Keshav Jaini, who has for the last 20 years working on composting and has set up a low-cost, long-term composting system for the colony; and Ms Madhur Panjwani, lawyer and founder of “Earth to Earth”
Unlocking our Sounds: Historical Recordings from the Indian Subcontinent
Unlocking our Sounds: Historical Recordings from the Indian Subcontinent
Illustrated presentation by Janet Topp-Fargion and Shubha Chaudhuri
The British Library and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies (ARCE) have been engaged in a collaborative project. As part of this project ARCE has received digital copies of very valuable collections of ethnographic wax cylinder recordings from the British Library. These include the recordings from the Linguistic Survey of India by George Grierson from 1913-1929, the Madras Museum Cylinder collection recorded by K. Rangachari and Edgar Thurston between 1905 -10, and the Baluchi cylinder recordings made in 1911. Prior to this, ARCE had also received the collection of A.H. Fox Strangways (1910-19110) and the Ladakh Recordings made by Arnold Bake in 1930s.
This programme presents these recordings which will be now available for access at the Archives and Research Centre of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies in Gurgaon. The online web catalogue of the ARCE will also be launched
(Collaboration: The Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; and British Library, UK)
Xian – A Great City of Sanskrit Texts and Masters
Xian – A Great City of Sanskrit Texts and Masters
Speaker: Dr. Shashibala, Dean, Centre of Indology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Chair: Smt. Aruna Vasudev
Chair: Smt. Aruna Vasudev
The historical and cultural relationship between India and China spans over two millennia and has always been cordial. Xian, the former capital of China has been a city of Sanskrit texts and great masters who translated them with Imperial support. To this day, it preserves innumerable documents of cultural ties between India and China. Xian (ancient Ch’ang-an) an ancient capital of several dynasties began to be a centre of translation of Sanskrit texts into Chines from the 3rd century. Some of the outstanding monk-scholars who lived and worked there (out of more than 225 Indian and 100 Chinese Buddhist masters) under state patronage are – Kumarajiva, Hsuan Tsang, Amoghavajra, Vajrabodhi and Itsing. Many of them hailed from Kashmir and the Gangetic plains. Their work gave rise to eight major Buddhist sects in China and also spread into Korea and Japan as scholars used to come there to Ch’ang-an to study under the Indian and Chinese masters. The monasteries where they worked are the best known Buddhist monasteries in Xian – Caotang, the Great Goose pagoda, Da Cien and Jingfu. The Forest of Inscriptions is a mesmerising place where a large number of Buddhist Sanskrit texts in translation are engraved on huge stone slabs so that people can get copies made to take back
Concert – Piano Recital: Soundscapes of Expression
Concert – Piano Recital: Soundscapes of Expression
By Anuvrat Choudhary
The repertoire showcases the piano as being the core of Western art music through centuries, the medium which the greats like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin used for their most profound and expressive compositions
Delhi-based Anuvrat Choudhary is a 19 year-old pianist who has given solo recitals at Mumbai's Tata Theatre under the auspices of the NCPA, at the Delhi School of Music, and at Ashoka University. He has been awarded a Distinction in the Associate's diploma examination by Trinity College London
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Indian Archaeology
Early Narratives on Ramayana
Illustrated lecture by Prof. Seema Bawa who has specialised in History of South Asian Art and Culture, Department of History, University of Delhi. She is currently working on Gupta and Post-Gupta Shivaism in Northern India, exploring the experience and manifestations through image-text study and the differential evolution of the Shaiva tirtha and pilgrimage networks
Chair: Dr. B.M. Pande
During the Gupta period, Ramayana becomes the focus of cultural production and dissemination, be it in the literary, oral or sculptural traditions. This reading of early Ramayana sculptural panels found within architectural settings and independent terracotta plaques attempt to examine the temporal and spatial contexts within which these were conceptualised
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY
Special Lecture
Beyond Techno-Narcissim: Self & Other in the Internet Public Realm
Speaker: Prof. Langdon Winner, Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
Chair: Amb. Vijay K. Nambiar, formerly UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Myanmar
Expectations that the internet would provide a suitable place for the flourishing of democracy have recently encountered some grave setbacks. The rise of monopoly control within platforms of communication has greatly magnified the economic and political power of oligarchies. Techniques for harvesting personal data to fuel targeted “computational propaganda” threaten to undermine the integrity of elections and to erode citizen confidence that their outcomes are fair. While both roots and possible remedies for these maladies exist within large institutions, the erosion of democracy may have origins closer to home - in the activities and experience of selfhood on the Net
(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)
A Mehfil with Smt Bharathi Prathap (Khayal)
A Mehfil with Smt Bharathi Prathap (Khayal)
Smt Bharathi Prathap was initiated into Carnatic music in her childhood and later moved to Hindustani music at the behest of her uncle. She trained with Pandit Marutrao Inamdar and Pandit Rama Rao Naik and has been learning from Vidushi Lalith J. Rao for over 15 years. By virtue of her sustained ta’lim, she has a vast repertoire of the Agra-Atrauli gharana. For this mehfil, Bharathi will present a rare prakar of Kalyan, a variant of Malhar and compositions of her Dada-Guru Ustad Khadim Hussain Khan
(Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research; and NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music)