Poetic Image/Visual Forms: Reading Miniature Paintings of the Gita from Mewar (1680-1694)

Speaker: Prof. Alok Bhalla

 

Chair:  Prof. Harish Trivedi

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

 

 

 

A film by Sanjoy Hazarika & Preeti Gill

Direction: Maulee Senapati (technical)

 

Conceptualised and developed by Sanjoy Hazarika who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Rambuai focuses attention on a period in the nation’s history that has rarely figured in contemporary discourse, official reports, civil society dialogues or even scholarly debates

 

 

An exhibition of recent works – paintings, drawings and mixed media

By Amrita Ghosh and Subrata Mete from Delhi

 

Inauguration by Smt Uma Jain, Shri Niren Sen Gupta and Shri Jagdish Dey on Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

 

Amahl and the Night Visitors (50 mins) 

A one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

Presented by the Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

          

Music Director/Conductor – Clayton Duggan

Stage Director/Choreographer – Diniz Sanchez

Founder/Voice Coach – Situ Singh Buehler

Piano Accompaniment – Dinai Rentta

Flute – Nathalie Ramirez Tovar

 

Soloists: Mother, Amahl, 3 Kings and a Page, Chorus of Shepherds and Dancers 

 

Followed by Christmas Carols

 

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a retelling of the 3 wise men of the Orient from the point of view of a young disabled boy named Amahl, who lives in poverty with his widowed mother near Bethlehem. He sees a bright star in the sky and tells his mother to go look, but she brushes him off. That night 3 Kings come across their meagre hut and seek shelter for they have travelled long and far following the star of which Amahl had spoken. They bring with them treasure and gifts to give "the Child" who has just been born and will reign over all. Blinded by the lure of Gold and what it could do for her family the mother attempts to steal just a bit of the treasure, but is caught red handed. What no one expects is a gift far greater than Gold - blessed by "the Child", Amahl finds himself suddenly cured of his disability! Amahl follows the Kings to visit the "infant Child"

 

 

 

A discussion on the book by Dr. Geeta Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures, University of Virginia

 

Panelists: Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University; Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi; and Akhil Katyal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University

 

The author will also speak

 

(Collaboration: Women Unlimited)

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Until Space Remains – The Dalai Lama & India (65 min; 2016; dvd; English)

A film directed by Gaurav Saxena

 

The Dalai Lama has often described India as the Guru of the Tibetan people. Today, that role in many ways has been reversed. He and the Tibetan people have been in exile in India since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 and their story continues to be one of the most significant success stories of a displaced community. The Tibetan people have managed to preserve their identity, keeping their cause alive and reaming welcome in India, while the Dalai Lama is an eloquent and influential ambassador of India’s civilizational heritage, its inclusive philosophy and the most sophisticated mind training techniques in history. The Film explores this remarkable relationship that began in the 8th Century AD 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

 

 

 

Archaeology of Brajbhoomi

Speaker: Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta

Chair: Prof. R.C. Agarwal

 

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH SERIES

 

You are Circled by Non–ionizing Radiations! Health Concerns of ELFEMF and RFEMF (includes Health Impact of mobile phones)

 

Series Moderator: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

Keynote Speaker: Dr. T.V. Ramachandran, Chairman, European Business Group

 

Panelists: Dr. R.M. Chaturvedi, DDG, Department of Telecommunications; Dr. Manoj Sharma, Ex-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College; Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and  Dr. B. P. Baruah, Department of Radiology, Sharda Medical College

 

(Collaboration: Health Environment Foundation in association with Consumers India)

CANCELLED
 

Trombone Concert

By Lisa Sarasini

Accompanied on the piano by Aron Tringali

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)