Carnatic Music – Vocal Recital

By Guruvayoor Dr. T.V. Manikandan, Professor, Dept. of Music, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, University of Delhi

Accompanists: Delhi R. Sridhar (violin); Kumbakonam N. Padmanabhan (mridangam); and Elathur N. Hari Narayanan (ghatam)

This concert is dedicated to Chembai Vaidhyanatha Bhagavathar

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)

Solving Poetic Puzzles: Mukula Bhatta against Anandavardhana’s Theory of Suggestion

Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Keating, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

The Origins of Metaphor, or the Origins of Deification

Speaker; Prof. Milind Wakankar, IIT - Delhi

Rethinking Comparative Aesthetics in Uneven Globalising Times

Speaker: Prof. Parul Dave Mukherji, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Unseen Enemy (97 min; 2017; dvd; English & with Subtitles)

Written/Directed by Janet Tobias who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Panelists: Prof. Vinod K. Paul, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI); Neela Saldanha, Director, Centre for Social & Behaviour Change, Ashoka University; Sanjiv Navangul, Managing Director, Janssen India; Janet Tobias; and Ankita Mukherji, Senior Editor & Anchor, NDTV

Unseen Enemy is an essential exploration of why in the 21st century, we are experiencing a rash of diseases that were once only outbreaks but have now become full-blown epidemics. Moving across the globe, we meet our characters: doctors, disease detectives, everyday men and women. Everyone of them has stepped into the horror of an epidemic and emerged deeply changed

(Collaboration: Ikana Health)

Maati Ek: Moulded from the Same Clay

An evening in celebration of Oneness

Poetry by Inni Kaur, well-known poet and author

Shabad by Bhai Kultar Singh, 12th generation Keertaniya

Followed by

Film – Dhun Mein Dhyan: Meditations in Music, in the Guru Granth Sahib

(51 min; 2017; dvd; English)

A film by Meera Dewan for PSBT

The film attempts to unravel the birth, lineage, ancestors and life message of this Living Guru

FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

Let’s Talk About Food (26 min; 2011; dvd; English)

Director: Mallika Sarabhai

The film is a journey into India’s food heritage and the biodiversity of its crops. It delves into the reasons for the shrinking of this diversity and the homogenisation of our food preferences

Monsoons – A Tale of Cultural Interpretation (26 min; 2015; dvd; English)

Director: Moumita Das

The film captures the unique elements of festivals that fall in monsoon and highlights their essence and importance

Films courtesy: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

G.P. : 1912-1995

Release of the book (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2018) followed by a discussion

Prof. Romila Thapar, eminent historian will release the book

Panelists: Shri N. Ram, Editor-in Chief, The Hindu; Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development;

Shri K. Natwar Singh, former Union Cabinet Minister and writer; Shri H.K. Dua, senior journalist; Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi; and Shri Kapila, Academic Institute

Moderator: Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)

Narendra Mohan: A Life Time with Poetry

(Kavita-Samagrah: Complete Poems: Two Volumes)

Chief Guest: Shri Mukesh Bharadwaj

Chair: Dr. Ram Darsh Mishra

Screening of documentary clips

Readings of Poems by Ritu Mehra and Narendra Mohan

Launch of the book followed by a discussion

Keynote Speaker: Partap Sehgal

Paper presented by Rekha Sethi

Speakers: Dr. Harsh Naval; Shri Brajendra Tripathi; and Dr. Pawan Mathur

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India

Technology and Society: Educating Future Leaders and Creating an Informed Citizenry

Speaker: Dr. Venkatesh Narayanmurthi, eminent scientist and acclaimed public policy expert, who is currently Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary

For both future leaders and citizens, there is need to bridge the growing gap between rapid and pervasive advance of technology which is transforming societies we live in and our understanding of this process in all its dimensions. This will be key to addressing the grand challenges confronting humanity in the 21st century

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