The Halls of Industry and The Nehru Pavilion – Landmarks of India’s Modern Architecture

 

Photographs and engineering drawings by Raj Rewal, Mahendra Raj

 

Solo presentation in Hindi by Bhagirathi Bai, Seagull Theatre, Guwahati

 

The play is based on “Bharathiya Mahileyara Swathanthra Horata”, a translation by well-known Kannada writer, K. Vaidehi, of Indian Women’s Freedom Struggle by Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

 

 

 

Speakers at the roundtable will include, Shri Gopal Gandhi, Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Dr. Devaki Jain, Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, Dr. Radha Kumar, Shri Ashoke Chatterjee, Dr. Shobita Punja, Smt Mirnal Pande among others

 

Speaker: Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor

 

Followed by 

Sangeet Natak Akademi and SMM Theatre Crafts Trust

Speaker: Smt Usha Malik, former Secretary, Sangeet Natak Akademi

 

Speaker: Dr. Aparna Basu, historian and former President, All India Women’s Conference

 

Followed by a presentation

Kamaladevi ki Janam Kahani

Performance by Patachitra artist, Gurupada Chitrakar from West Bengal on the life of Kamaladeviji

 

Followed by

 

Kamaladevi’s Vision for Handloom and Handicraft Through the Cooperative Movement

Speakers: Smt Gulshan Nanda, former Chairperson, Central Cottage Industries Emporium; and Shri K.B. Johar, former Managing Director, Central Cottage Industries Emporium

 

 

From 10:00 to 13:00

Movement Workshop

Conducted by Dr. Anita Ratnam 

 

The workshop is open to all styles

 

At 16:00

Tribute to Padma Bhushan (the Late) Smt Kalanidhi Narayanan

Speakers/Performers: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan; Guru Smt Jamuna Krishnan; Smt Rasika Khanna; and Smt Pratibha Prahlad, Padmashri

 

At 18:30

Natya Vriksha Young Dancers

Bharatanatyam

By Dr. Vasudevan Iyengar from Delhi

 

Kathak

By Sanjukta Sinha from Ahmedabad

 

 

Organised in collaboration with Natya Vriksha

 

From 10:00 to 13:00

Demonstration of Bharatanatyam Class at Natya Vriksha

Conducted by Geeta Chandran

 

At 16:00

In Conversation

Geeta Chandran in conversation with celebrated dancer, Dr. Yamini Krishnamurthi, Padma Vibhushan

 

At 18:30

Natya Vriksha Young Dancers Festival

Kuchipudi

By Bhavna Reddy

 

The Attic

Interactive presentation in Bharatanatyam

By Dr. Swarnamalya Ganesh from Chennai

The panel consisting of Prof. C. P. Chandrasekhar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, JNU; Prof. Bina Agarwal, the University of Manchester & Institute of Economic Growth; and Prof. Gopal Guru, Centre for Political Studies, JNU will discuss the book, 

Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty (Bombay: Harvard Business School Press, 2014).  

Chair: Prof. T.K. Oommen

 

With music by Pedro Luna, libretto by Antonio Paso and Enrique Garcia Alvarez

Presented by The Neemrana Music Foundation

 

Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric – a dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance

 

The comic journey of three Spaniards from Madrid to Aleppo and then to Baroda, in a quest for identity, and, more importantly, in search of the marvelous treasures of the Orient. The zarzuela encapsulates the dream that was the orient and showcases a wide cast of characters. All the arias, duets and quartet will be in Spanish with the dialogues in English

 

Provocative plays from around the world presented as visual enactments

Directed by Feisal Alkazi

 

Tea (70 min)

Play by Velina Hasu Houston

 

With Radhika Alkazi, Averee Chourey, Alka Khanna, Vicki Rai and Nandini Sra

 

The lyrical and poignant lives of five Japanese women who marry American GIs and move to America…