Kobi Pranaam – Gaan O Path

A musical tribute to Tagore through words and song

By Shekhar Gupta from Kolkata

 

Education at the Crossroads

 

Edited by Apoorvanand and Omita Goyal

 

 

 

Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the special issue of the IIC Quarterly (Winter 2015-Spring 2016)

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion

 

Panelists: Prof. Krishna Kumar, Professor of Education and former Director, NCERT; Prof. Shyam B. Menon, Vice-Chancellor, Ambedkar University, Delhi; and Prof. Anita Rampal, Faculty of Education, University of Delhi

 

 

 

This volume asks a fundamental question: What is education? It is not only about literacy and grades and rankings, nor merely about knowledge creation. A common theme that runs through the collection is the recognition that education has to teach us to think and question. If this is the imperative, education must take cognizance of disparities in incomes and social status, the heterogeneity of culture, religion, language and lived reality

 

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Warli paintings by students of Nutan Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Cantonment Board School, Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra 

Paintings by Adnan Kazi, Shadab Kazi, Jayesh Kale, Zakir Shaikh, Prakash Nanavare, Sanket Shelke, Rishikesh Salve and Ankit Sathe
 

Inauguration by Shri Jagmohan    on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 18:30

Learning Warli art has brought about a joyful transformation in the lives of the students of Ahmednagar Cantonment Board Schools. Albeit underpriviledged and bereft of better opportunities, these children under the passionate and tireless tutelage of their art teacher Shri Arvind J. Kudia, have created masterpieces that are on display at the exhibition

 

Speaker: Dr. Ashwani Mehta, Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Sir Gang Ram Hospital

 

Chair: Dr. Raman Kapur

(113 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Shefali Bhushan who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Jugni is about a young Bollywood music producer, Vibhavari who goes to Punjab in search of a folk singer named Bibi Saroop – a character partly based on the sufi singer, Swarn Noora. Jugni meaning firefly in Hindi is also a popular folk song in Punjab about a search. The film includes music produced and sung by A.R. Rahman, Vishal Bharadwaj, Rekha Bharadwaj, Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and others

 

Keynote Comments: Shri M.J. Akbar

 

Panelists: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Carnegie India; Air Marshal (Retd.) Vinod Patney,  former Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force; Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam, SDS (Air), National Defence College; and others

 

Chair: Shri Nitin Gokhale

 

Discussion around the new book India’s Wars: A Military History (1947-1971) by Arjun Subramaniam (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2016)

By Subroto Bondo

 

Followed by

Prof. Samik Bandyopadhyay, Tagore Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University will speak on the book Metropolis: Zillionth Shades of Din  by Subroto Bondo

 

 

Composers and Decomposers: Music of The First and Second Viennese Schools

An illustrated talk by Dr Punita G. Singh 

 

Some of the giants of western art music lived and worked in Vienna for seminal periods of their lives. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert dominated the late 18th and early 19th century, composing music characterized by form, elegance and tonal and textural clarity. In contrast with this group referred to as the ‘First Viennese School’, a century later the ‘Second Viennese School’ comprising Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Anton Webern and Alban Berg, dispensed with tonality and experimented with alternative and often dissonant dimensions of sound to create music. Both schools contributed ideas and sounds that have had a significant impact on the evolution of music.

 

Punita is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi.