Erstwhile Nalanda

Speaker: Dr. Lokesh Chandra, President, ICCR

Imagining History and the Future: Through Cinema, Literature and Architecture
Speaker: Snehanshu Mukherjee, Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Along with teaching and practicing architecture, he has remained a keen observer of the performing arts
 
Chair: Shohini Ghosh, Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia
 
This presentation looks at how architecture helps to give physical shape and add the dimension of time convincingly to written works of fiction as depicted in cinema by exploring specific scenes from classic films such as Ray’s Aparajito, Charulata and Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood amongst others

The programmes include discussions, film by Tadpole Artists Collective; theatre by Space Theatre Ensemble (Goa); concert by Gede Robi Supriyanto, Indonesian rock musician, activist, writer and farmer; and songs by Vidya Rao and Tenzin Choegyal, Tibetan Australian musician
 

Photographs by Karam Puri
 
Inauguration on Thursday, 1st October  2015 at 18:30
 
E.P. - Extended Play is a body of work six years in the making. It invites the viewer to a rare glimpse of the homes of former Nawabs and Maharajahs across the subcontinent. The Other Stories include a visual journey of the quiet decay of Calcutta through the ages
 

Non-Violence in Action
Speaker: Shri Madhukar Upadhyay, journalist, will speak on Gandhiji; Shri Alok Bajpai will make an audio-visual presentation
 
Followed by Inauguration of an exhibition of photographs and posters
By Shri A. Annamalai, Director, National Gandhi Museum
 
On view at the Annexe Art Gallery till 3 October 2015, 11:00 to 19:00

What Does China’s Global Economic Strategy Mean for Asia, India and World?
China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative
 
This session, first in the series under “The China Symposia”, will feature experts from diverse fields who will evaluate the opportunities and challenges for India of China’s “Silk Road” economic strategy. The series is designed to address and elucidate key questions about China that arise amongst many of us, but are rarely discussed in depth. “The China Symposia” comprises six Public Sessions spread over 12 months, interspersed with two Round Tables. Each Round Table will reflect upon the output of the previous three Public Sessions and develop a policy paper on India’s economic engagement with China and with Asia for the medium and long-term
 
Chair: Shri Kishan S. Rana, former Indian Ambassador to Germany and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)
 

Produced by Mad Bawa and Kashti Theatre Group
Presented by Farhad Colabavala, well-known actor
Written and directed by Vikramjeet Sinha
 
Inspired by Nine Nights and A Million Stars – a book by Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya Tato
Music and special effects: Ketan; Photographs: Dr. K.K. Mohammed; and Creative inputs: Smt Kulsoom Noor Saifullah
 
A historical drama set during the times of Sheikh Nizamuddin Aulia. It talks of the struggle for power that saw eight Sultans rule Delhi in quick succession over a period of just forty years. The city of Delh has played host to Sudi Saints and Emperors through the centuries but the only survivor is the lamp of awareness and love that burns eternally
 

 
 
 
 

Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Yogic and Naturopathic Perspectives
 
Panelists: Prof. Shishir Rastogi, Professor of Orthopaedics, AIIMS; Prof. Y.K. Gupta, Head, Dept. of Pharmacology, AIIMS; Prof. Bhiman, Director General (Ayurveda) AYUSH; and Prof. R.K. Manchanda, Director General (Homeopathy) AYUSH
 
Chair: Dr. Vijay Mohan Kohli, Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgeon, Metro Heart Institute