Sketches, Scribbles and Drawings

By Aalap Shah, artist from Ahmedabad; and Uchiyama Takayoshi, lacquer artist from Quoto, Japan. Both the artists have lived and worked with senior artist, Jatin Das for a number of years in the tradition of Guru Shishya Parampara

 

Preview on Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 18:30

 

Challenge of Statelessness: India’s Response

Speaker: Prof. V. Suryanarayan, former Director, Centre for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Madras, Chennai

 

Chair: Shri K.P. Fabian

 

Stateless people are spread across the world. Denied a nationality, from cradle to grave, they undergo suffering and humiliation. Right to education, health care, political participation, even retention of cultural identity are denied to them. The talk will focus on the evolution of India’s policy towards stateless people, refugee phenomenon in India, proposed amendment to the Citizenship Act and the hopes and aspirations of the Rohingya and Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who live in the country

 

ANNUAL LIBRARIANS’ MEET 
 

Light in the Library (60 min)

A play scripted by Kevin Stone and produced by Pioneer Drama Service, USA 

Play will be presented by the teachers and students of Miranda House, Delhi 

 

Talk about literature coming to life! Two friends, Gabby and Paige suspect something is going on in the library at night, so together they hide in the library after it closes and discover that it’s haunted by a silent ghost who leads them to a book containing a cryptic poem. As Paige and Gabby decipher the poem, they find clues that enable them to bring fictional characters to life…

 

Xinjiang and the Chinese State

Release and discussion around the book by Debasish Chaudhuri (New Delhi: Routledge, 2018)

 

Speakers: Ambassador Rajiv Sikri; Prof. Siddiq Wahid; Prof. K. Warikoo; and Dr. T. G. Suresh

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies; and Routledge)

 

Concert – Guitar Recital

By Thomas Csaba, award winning classical guitarist from France

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Erik Satie, Philip Glass and Arvo Part

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Life is as is: Teachings from the Mahabharata

Launch and Discussion of the book by Kavita A. Sharma and Indu Ramchandani

 

Speakers: Professor Malashri Lal,  Professor Molly Kaushal and Professor Alok Bhalla

 

Chair: Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President ICCR, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

 

(Collaboration: Wisdom Tree)

 

 

The Garden of Forgotten Snow (30 min; 2017; digital video; English)

Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by Gayatri Sinha in conversation  with Nilima Sheikh

 

The Garden of Forgotten Snow is a film about Nilima Sheikh’s art practice and her engagement with the land of Kashmir over several decades. The film traverses the many layers of memory and history as embodied in her work and the literary and art-historical traditions it references

 

 

A Shining City on a Hill

A discussion on the book by Come Carpentier de Gourdon

 

Speakers: General Vinod Saighal;  Shri Ran Chakrabarti, attorney-at-law; and Ms Juhi Rani Kaul

 

This book is a biovel, a novelized biographic story which narrates the author's visit to Colorado in the USA in the eighties and his investigations into the forces that shape and move that society and control power within it. Arriving from India where he had spent eight years, the writer uncovered many little known or hidden facets of America's history and political system. 

The book reveals that America's long standing high level interest in esotericism came of age when some of its ruling elites came into contact with what they first saw as the Supernatural. That is perhaps the greatest secret that has been kept until today and it may account in part for the current state of the USA

 

 

(Collaboration: Har-Anand Publication)

 

Odissi  Recital 

By Prerna Aggarwal from Delhi, disciple of Smt Madhavi Mudgal

On the occasion of the Indo-Greek seminar on  Demetrios Galanos and His Legacy: Indo-Greek Exchanges, 1790-2018

 

Concert – Greek Melodies

Four Greek Musicians will perform traditional songs from the Greek Islands – old Rebetico, melodic improvisations

 

Musicians: Nikos Paraoulakis (ney); James Wylie (politiki lyra); Avgerini Gatsi (voice, accordion); and Thimios Atzakas (oud)

 

(Collaboration: IGNCA; Embassy of Greece; and Indo Hellenic Friendship League)