BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

India’s Heritage of Gharana Music: Pandits of Gwalior

By Meeta Pandit (Gurgaon: Shubhi Publications, 2018)

Discussants: Ms AshaRani Mathur, former Music Producer, Author and Editor; Ms Manjari Sinha, Musicologist and Critic; and Ms Shailaja Khanna, Musicologist

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, well-known Hindi poet

Play – Sara Ka Saara Aasmaan (90 min)

Play by Danish Iqbal

Directed by Tarique Hameed

Presented by Wings Cultural Society

Play based on the life of Sara Shagufta, better known as the Sylvia Plath of the subcontinent, a Pakistani poet. Her brief, but tragic life and poetic work embodied the lives of many women across times and boundaries in a world that failed to understand her

Seminar on Planning Urban Spaces for the Future

Inauguration of Seminar on Planning Urban Spaces for the Future

Keynote Address by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Urban Development

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President IIC

VIDHI DIALOGUES

Inclusive Education

Speakers: Ms Mrinalini Sinha, Special Educator & Consultant; Ms Reena Gupta, Founder, Mindsera; Shri Santosh Kumar Rungta, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; and Shri Piyush Anthony, Special Protection Officer, UNICEF

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

A Gender Atlas of India

A discussion around the new book by Radha Kumar, Marcel Korff and Karthika Sudhir (New Delhi: Sage, 2018)

Release of the book and a panel discussion

Panelists: Sushmita Deb, MP and Head of Mahila Congress; Sonia Singh, NDTV; and Radha Kumar

Moderator: Farah Naqvi

How does India rate in comparison with other Asian countries when it comes to the status of its women? Which are our best and worst-performing states when it comes to gender? Is India changing for the better or worse in treatment of its women? These questions and more are addressed in A Gender Atlas of India, using both government and independent data, and illustrated with over 200 charts, graphs and maps

Bandung Day Celebrations 2018

At 17:30

Bandung Legacy Songs

By Pratidhwani

Followed by

Bandung Day Symposium: Bandung Vision and Contemporary Global Challenge

The programme will include release of a book by Darwis Khudori, Indonesian scholar on Bandung Legacy and Global Future

The book will be released by Dr. Syeda Hameed

Opening remarks by the Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey

Speakers: Dr. Syeda Hameed, former Member, Planning Commission; Prof. Darwis Khudori, Le Havre University & Convener, Bandung Spirit Network; Prof. Praveen Singh, Ambedkar University; Prof. Rashmi Doraiswamy, Director, Institute of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development; and Jamia Millia Islamia)

Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

By Syeda Saiyidain Hameed (New Delhi, Rupa: 2018)

Release of the book followed by a discussion

(Collaboration: Rupa Publishers)

CHITHIRAI MUSIC FESTIVAL

Vocal Recital

By G. Ravi Kiran from Bangaluru, disciple of Sangita Kalanidhi Shri R.K. Srikantan and Vidwan Shri T.M. Krishna

Accompanists : Delhi R Sridhar on violin & Kumbakonam N Padmanaban on mridangam

(Collaboration: Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha)

CHITHIRAI MUSIC FESTIVAL

FRIDAY 20 AND SATURDAY 21

CHITHIRAI MUSIC FESTIVAL

Flute Recital

By G. Raghuraman from Delhi, disciple of Dr. N. Ramani

Accompanist: Delhi R Sridhar on violin & M.V. Chander Shekar on mridangam

Rroma – The Forgotten Children of India

Speaker: Prof. Marcel Courthiade, Professor and Head of the Rromani Studies Section, Department of South Asian Languages, INALCO, Paris-City Sorbonne and Commissioner for Language and Linguistic Rights, International Rromani Union

Chair: Ms Punita Singh

The talk will present the discovery/rediscovery of the Indian origin, ideological negation of this origin and of any Rromani identity, heritage, culture: the welfare syndrome; and perspectives of Indo-Rromani relationship

(Collaboration: Centre of Indology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan)

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