An illustrated talk by Shri Prabhu Ghate based on his book of the same title and covers selected journeys in Asia, Africa and Latin America

 

Chair: Shri Saeed Naqvi

Speakers : Dr Pratap Sharan, Professor of  Psychiatry, AIIMS; Dr. Bhrigupati Singh, Asstt Professor, Brown University, USA; Dr Anurag Misra, Consultant Psychiatrist, Fortis Hospital; and Ms Diya Sethi, author of The Addict: Life Recovered 

 Moderated by Dr. S. K. Khandelwal, Professor and Head, Psychiatry, AIIMS

There are many ways that cultural variations influence the entire range of mental health problems. Cultural differences in health practices are also major determinants of illness behaviour, coping, treatment response and adherence, rehabilitation and recovery. The cultural differences contribute to health disparities and unequal access to care. Any mental health care system that aims to achieve equity must therefore address issues of cultural diversity. This panel will deliberate on the way mental health knowledge interacts with other bodies of knowledge from a range of socio-institutional realms

 

 

Prof.  Sonu Goyal, Professor of Strategy, International Management Institute, New Delhi; Dr. Gautam Vohra, Environment Campaigner, Author and Founder/Chaiman Development Research & Action Group; and  Ms Saroja Khanna, Journalis and freelance Writer/Editor will discuss Women Entrepreneurs: Inspiring Stories of Success by Avinash Kirpal (New Delhi: Sage, 2015)

 

Chair: Dr. Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, former Member, Planning Commission

William Butler Yeats: The India Connection: Kabir and Tagore

Key Note Address by Prof. Indra Nath Choudhuri: A distinguished academician, cultural administrator, cultural diplomat, Former First Tagore Chair at the Edinburgh Napier University and Chair of Indian studies at Bucharest University. Former Secretary National Academy of Letters and Director of The Nehru Centre, London and author of distinction

 

Panel discussion

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

 

Speakers:

A Dance on Deathless Feet: Unmasking Yeats’s India Connection

By Prof. Anisur Rahman, Professor of English and Honorary Director Centre for Coaching and Career Planning, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

Yeats’s Interest in India

By Professor R.W. Desai, noted Professor of English of Delhi University (retd.)

 

And Dr Keith Hopper 

 

At 15:00:  Documentary Films

1.      Affairs of the Heart: Yeats and the Women in His Life (16 min)

2.      Players and the Painted Stage: Yeats and the Theatre ( 25 min)

3.      The Other World: Yeats and the Theatre (15 min)

4.      The Mask: Yeats, the Public Man (25 min)

 

17:30: Readings and Performance

Readings from ten poems by Yeats and the contemporary artists like Kathleen Watking; Theo Dorgan; Sinead O’Conner;  Seamus Heaney; Donna Dent; Paula Meehan;  Ulick O’Conner; and Katherine Wade

Introduction: Dr. Santosh Pall, retired teacher of English from Delhi University is a Yeats scholar, Odissi dancer, freelance writer

 

Followed by

Readings by Sunit Tandon, Director General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Bhaskar Ghose, Formerly Director General, Doordarshan, Secretary, Department of Culture, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Both are members of Yatrik Theatre Group

 

19.00:  Purgatory

A play by W.B. Yeats presented by Shaw's Corner  

Courtesy Dr Vinod Bala Sharma, Former Faculty member Mata Sundari College, University of Delhi

 

First presented in at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 19 August 1938 (a few months before Yeats' death), the play is about decline and fall of a family through its two remaining members: an Old Man (the father) and a Boy (his sixteen-year-old son). It is set outside the former family home, which the Old Man's father had drunkenly burned down, leading him to kill his father as the building perished. The Boy is skeptical about tales of his family's former grandeur, and is repelled by the Old Man's story of losing his own mother as she gave birth to him, and the decline subsequent events wrought on the family. Tonight, the Old Man tells the Boy, is the anniversary of his mother's wedding night. This was the night on which he was conceived after a bout of drunken carousing by his father, and thus when his mother's fate was sealed. At this point a ghostly figure appears illuminated in a window of the wrecked house. In an attempt to wrest his mother's soul from Purgatory, he suddenly stabs and kills the Boy. However it appears to be in vain: approaching hoof beats of his ghostly father returning to the bridal bed signal that no spirits have left the place, and the grim cycle begins again...

 

Yeats had been strongly influenced by the Noh theatre of Japan in the later years of his life and is seen through Yeats' use of the spirits of the Old Man's parents as a metaphor for the family's decline and of death and rebirth. Similarly, the sparseness of the setting, the use of only two characters and the play's relative brevity

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Ireland)

As we celebrate W. B. Yeats’ 150th birth anniversary, it is time to reconsider the continued significance of his life and works for India and the world at large. The two-day event would focus Yeats, the influence of Indian spiritual, intellectual and creative traditions upon his work, and his own impact upon the Indian cultural and literary scene.  Through academic lectures and discussions, film screenings, readings and music, the programme would highlight Yeats’ continued importance for the world we inhabit today. Participants from India and Ireland would come together to commemorate the significance of this literary giant for the 21st century
 

 Inaugural Lecture - The Island Dreams Under the Dawn: W.B. Yeats, India and Ireland

 

Saturday, November 28 , 2015 

FESTIVAL ? C D DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM  FROM  11:00 A.M.

W.B. Yeats and the India connection –  A Seminar

 

Key note Speaker: Prof  Indra Nath Choudhuri: A distinguished academician, cultural administrator, cultural diplomat, Former First Tagore Chair at the Edinburgh Napier University and  Chair of Indian studies at Bucharest University. Former Secretary National Academy of Letters and Director of The Nehru Centre, London and author of distinction 

 

Panelists:  Dr Keith Hopper; Prof. Anisur Rahman, Professor of English and Honorary Director Centre for Coaching and Career Planning, Jamia Millia Islamia;  and Professor R.W. Desai, noted Professor of English of Delhi University (retd.)  

15:00:  Documentary  Films

1.      Affairs of the Heart:  Yeats and the Women in His Life (16 min)

2.      Players and the Painted Stage: Yeats and the Theatre ( 25 min)

3.      The Other World: Yeats and the Theatre (15 min)

4.      The Mask: Yeats, the Public Man (25 min)

17:30: Readings and Performance 

 

Readings from ten poems by Yeats and the contemporary artists like Kathleen Watking; Theo Dorgan; Sinead O’Conner;  Seamus Heaney; Donna Dent; Paula Meehan Ulick O’Conner; and Katherine Wade 

Introduction: Dr. Santosh Pall, retired teacher of English from Delhi University is a Yeats scholar, Odissi dancer, freelance writer 

Followed by 

 

Readings by Sunit Tandon, Director General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Bhaskar Ghose, Formerly Director General, Doordarshan, Secretary, Department of Culture, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Both are members of Yatrik Theatre Group 
 

19.00:  Purgatory

 A play by W.B. Yeats presented by Shaw's Corner  

Courtesy Dr Vinod Bala Sharma, Former Faculty member Mata Sundari College, University of Delhi

 

First presented in at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 19 August 1938 (a few months before Yeats' death), the play is about decline and fall of a family through its two remaining members: an Old Man (the father) and a Boy (his sixteen-year-old son). It is set outside the former family home, which the Old Man's father had drunkenly burned down, leading him to kill his father as the building perished. The Boy is skeptical about tales of his family's former grandeur, and is repelled by the Old Man's story of losing his own mother as she gave birth to him, and the decline subsequent events wrought on the family. Tonight, the Old Man tells the Boy, is the anniversary of his mother's wedding night. This was the night on which he was conceived after a bout of drunken carousing by his father, and thus when his mother's fate was sealed. At this point a ghostly figure appears illuminated in a window of the wrecked house. In an attempt to wrest his mother's soul from Purgatory, he suddenly stabs and kills the Boy. However it appears to be in vain: approaching hoof beats of his ghostly father returning to the bridal bed signal that no spirits have left the place, and the grim cycle begins again...

 

Yeats had been strongly influenced by the Noh theatre of Japan in the later years of his life and is seen through Yeats' use of the spirits of the Old Man's parents as a metaphor for the family's decline and of death and rebirth. Similarly, the sparseness of the setting, the use of only two characters and the play's relative brevity 

 

 

 

 

A rare and intimate collection of photographs of Buddhist Monastics from around the world

Photographs by Jon Kolkin, award-winning photographer

 

Inauguration on Friday 27 November 2015 at 17:00

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a lecture on Monday, 30 November at 18:30 in Annexe Lecture Room II on

Inner Harmony – Learning from the Buddhist Spirit

Speaker: Jon Kolkin

 

Memories of A Hundred and One Moons: An Indian Odyssey

A discussion on the occasion of the launch of Come Carpentier’s book published by Har- Anand Books

 

Guest of Honour: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC-Asia Project

Introduction: Shri Narendra Kumar, Chairman, Har-Anand Publication

 

Panelists: Prof. Madhav Nalapat, Director, Dept.of Geopolitics, Manipal University and Editorial Director, The Sunday Guardian & ITV Group; Shri Hindol Sengupta, Fortune, India; and Shri Shaurya Doval, Director, Surya Foundation

 

Historic Planting: A Contextual Approach for Heritage Precincts in India

 

Speaker: Ms Nupur Prothi Khanna, historic landscape architect, founding principal of Beyond Built, Pvt. Ltd. 

 

By Shirshendu Mukherjee from Kolkata, ITC Sangeet Research Academy, disciple of Pt Ajoy Chakraborty