Different Styles and Banis of Veena Playing in Carnatic Music

Saraswati Rajagopalan  is a noted  exponent of Carnatic veena, and disciple of Sangita Kalanidhi and Padmabhushan  K.S. Narayanaswamy

 

Chair: Shri Veejay Sai, writer on dance and music

 

Written by Gautam Raja 

Directed by Jeff Teare

Presented by Jagriti Theatre, Bengaluru

 

A husband and wife, a doctor and a scientist, a mother and a baby and antibiotics that no longer work

 

Performance will be followed by an interaction with the audience

 

 

 Antyajaa
A discussion on the intersecting inequalities of the Last Girl
 Speakers : Dr. Malini Bhattacharyya,  President, All India Democratic Women’s Association, author and formerly Professor of English, Jadavpur University and Ms Ruchira Gupta, human rights activist, author, Emmy award winning journalist and founder, Apne Aap Women Worldwide.
 

 

(Collaboration: Apne Aap Women Worldwide)

 

Shri Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly and author; Shri Nikhil Dey, activist and Convenor, NCPRI; and Ms Neerja Choudhury, senior journalist and commentator will discuss Claiming India from Below: Activism and Democratic Transformation by Vipul Mudgal (New Delhi: Routledge, 2016)

 

Chair: Prof. Satish Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics

 

(100 min; 2005; dvd; English)

Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Recorded in the late 60s and early 1970s, Karajan directs the Berlin Philharmonic in an Italiante take on Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and an assured rendering of the Fifth, while the “Pastoral” Symphony, conceived and directed by Hugo Niebeling in 1967, is a revolutionary mix of styles

 

 HAQ: Centre for Child Rights

 

Speaker: Dr. Ishi Khosla, practicing clinical nutritionist, consultant, writer, columnist, researcher, author and an entrepreneur

 

Chair: Dr. Raman Kapur