In the Light of others

01 February 2017, 05:30 am
In the Light of others
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
Speaker: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi who will speak about his experiences and encounters with many masters including Kumar Gandharva and Mallikarjun Mansur (Music), S H Raza and Jagdish Swaminathan (Visual Arts), Mani Kaul (Cinema), B V Karanth (Theatre), Agyeya and Muktibodh (Literature)
 
 
Chair: Shri Om Thanvi

Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination Of Hindi Dalit Literature

01 February 2017, 05:30 am
Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination Of Hindi Dalit Literature
Programme Type
Discussions
 
 
A discussion on Laura R. Brueck's book in the series South Asia Across the Disciplines
 
Discussants: Prof. Harish Trivedi, Formerly Professor of English, University of Delhi; Prof. Apoorvanand, Department of Hindi, University of Delhi; and Prof. Ajay Navaria, Department of Hindi, Jamia Millia Islamia
 
Guest of Honour: Prof. Puroshottam Agrawal, Professor of Eminence, ITM University, Gwalior and Former Member, Union Public Service Commission 
 
(Collaboration: Primus Books)

Nationalism

28 January 2017, 05:30 am
Nationalism
Programme Type
Discussions
Saturday 28
 
 
 
Discussion ■ Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamaladevi Complex at 18:30
 
Nationalism
 
In conversation – Srinath Raghavan, historian and author; and Mukul Kesavan,historian, author and columnist
 
 
 
(Collaboration: Indicus Syndicate)

Annual Transparency International Lecture

29 January 2017, 05:30 am
Annual Transparency International Lecture
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
Ethics of the Constitution
 
 
 
Speaker: Shri Justice G.S. Singhvi, former Judge of the Supreme Court and former Chairperson of the Competition Appellate Tribunal
 
 
 
(Collaboration: Transparency International)  

Humanism in Different Religions

28 January 2017, 05:30 am
Humanism in Different Religions
Programme Type
Talks

 

 

Speaker : Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, former Minister and author of Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary Challenges (Rupa, 2010)

 

(Collaboration: Indian Humanist Union)

 

 

 

 

 

 


Talk

28 January 2017, 05:30 am
Talk
Programme Type
Talks
HUMANISM IN DIFFERENT RELIGIONS

Speaker: Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, former Minister and auhtor of Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary challenges (Rupa, 2010)

Collaboration: Indian Humanist Union

A panel discussion around the book, Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India by Prof. Amrita Basu

17 January 2017, 05:30 am
A panel discussion around the book, Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India by Prof. Amrita Basu
Programme Type
Discussions
Amrita Basu is a Professor in the Political Science at Amherst College, USA

Panelists: Dipankar Gupta, Professor at Shiv Nadar University and Director, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory; Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Zoya Hasan,  Professor Emeritus, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
 

Music Appreciation Promotion

20 January 2017, 05:30 am
Music Appreciation Promotion
Programme Type
Talks
Music Appreciation Promotion
 
Balamurali Krishna – Myriad Facets of the Maverick Genius
Presentation by  G. Ravi Kiran
 
Chair: Usha RK, Arts Consultant
 
The presentation will focus on the greatest and most prolific Carnatic musician and composer of this century
 
G Ravi Kiran, a noted Carnatic musician from Chennai is a  senior disciple of Shri TM Krishna and Shri RK Srikantan
 

Papa Hemmingway in Cuba

07 January 2017, 05:30 am
Papa Hemmingway in Cuba
 
 
Papa Hemmingway in Cuba
 
(110 min; 2015; dvd; English)
 
Director: Bob Yari
 
 
 
Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film, Key West Film Festival 2015; and Jury Award for Best World Feature, Sonoma International Film Festival 2016
 
 
 
Based on a true story about the relationship between Miami journalist, Denne Bart Petitclerc and Ernest Hemmingway. Set during the Cuban revolution, the film was shot on location in Havana and inside Hemmingway’s estate, Finca Vigia. It is the first Hollywood film to be shot in Cuba since 1959