Through photographs, installations and text, the exhibition will bring to focus, Kamaladevi’s seminal role in the National movement and her contribution to the making of modern India

 

Curated by Birad Rajaram Yajnik

 

Inauguration on Saturday, 16 April 2016 at 18:00

 

 

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be several related programmes

 

On 18^th April 2016 at 18:30 pm in the Art Gallery

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay The Activist

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

 

20^th April 2016 at 18:30 pm in the Art Gallery

Reminiscing

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

 

Followed by

Kamaladeviji and Theatre: Sangeet Natak Akademi and SMM Theatre Crafts Trust

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

 

 

On 22^nd April 2016 from 10:00 to 17:00 in Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex

Round table on: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and The Making of Modern India

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

 

Performance

Friday, 22^nd April at 19.00 pm in the Gandhi - King Plaza

Kamaladevi - Yaadon ke Kuch Panne
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
 
(Collaboration: IGNCA)
 
 
Organised in collaboration with Delhi Crafts Council and with the support of Rohini Nilekani and Nandan Nilekani

 

He Bango Bhandare Tabo…

An evening of landmark literature and music of Bengal through the centuries

Presentations by Minoti Chatterjee; Averee Chourey; Indira Mukherjee; Ashish Ghosh; Siddhartha Dasgupta; Badal Ray; Shantanu Gangopadhyay; Shamik Ray; Jayati Ghosh; Ranjani Sanyal; and Sharboni Goswami

 

With the support of Robi Geetika, Swopna Ekhon, and Bikolpo

Concept: Jayati Ghosh

 

Organised in collaboration with Impresario India

 

Dances from the North East

Presented by Sangeet Sattra Ensemble of Guru Ranjumoni Saikia, Guwahati

 

Followed by 

 

Popular Melodies of Legends of Bollywood

Bhupen Hazarika, Sachin Dev Burman, Rahul Dev Burman and others

By Nabaroon Bhattacharjee and group

 

Wetlands: Sponges of the Earth (26 min; dvd; English)

Director: Subodh Kumar

 

At a time when the nation is on the edge of a severe water crisis, the conservation and protection of wetlands, a reliable source of fresh water, is all the more relevant. The film chronicles this urgent need

 

Water is Life (26 min; dvd; English)

Director: Atul Gupta

 

That hydroelectricity is one of the cleanest forms of electricity production is a belief well entrenched in all of us. This however has collided with destruction of the environment of the hills. While cities like Delhi are increasing their consumption of electricity, local activists in Uttarakhand question the effectiveness of a forestation programme as a counter measure to the harmful effects of blasting through the mountains

 

Films courtesy: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Priyanka Goenka, Senior Psychologist, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Chair: Dr. Raman Kapur

Panelists: Shri Deb Mukharji, former Indian Ambassador to Nepal; Ms Nirupama Subramanian, Resident Editor, The Indian Express – Chandigarh; Ms Suhasini Haider, Deputy Resident Editor & Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Hindu; and  Shri Surya Gangadharan, Senior Journalist & Editor, Parliamentarian

 

Chair: Shri Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Senior journalist and author, Executive Director, Reachout Foundation

 

 

 

By Prof. Vidyadhar Vyas from Mumbai, son and disciple of Gayanacharya Pt. Narayanrao Vyas

 

CANCELLED


A. Ramchandran, painter with Roobina Karode

 

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

A series of three lectures by Sharon Lowen, well-known exponent of Odissi who will provide a panoramic visual overview of 20th century American dance genres through film and video clips encompassing folk to Broadway, ballet to Pilobolos

 

Abstract Expressionism

Post Modern, Dance Theatre and Contemporary Dance

 

AT 16:00 IN THE QUADRANGLE GARDEN

IIC Tree Trail Walk

Led by Dr. Vasanti Ramachandran, author of Fruiting Trees of Delhi

 

Shri Jagmohan, former Union Minister of Urban Development, Tourism and Culture shall flag off the walk

 

AT 18:30 IN CONFERENCE ROOM I

Lodhi Garden @ 80

Presentation by the Department of Horticulture, NDMC - Shri J.P. Sharma, Director; Shri Babu Khan, Additional Director; and Shri Jitendra Kaushik, Assistant Director

 

The presentation will be followed by a discussion

 

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi

 

Saplings will be distributed to all the participants. Kindly please bring a cloth bag for the sapling