Role of Communities in Sustainable Development of Historic Cities

SPEAKERS:
Communities and Heritage – A sociological perspective
By Dr. Savyasaachi
 
Processes of Conservation in Historic Cities – A Governance Perspective
By Jagan Shah
 
HRIDAY Cities on ground: the question on inclusion.
By Gurmeet Rai
 
Heritage and Equity: Why community matter? – the case of conservation processes in Ahmedabad.
By Jigna Desai
 
Moderated By K. T. Ravindran
 
Ahmedabad just got inscribed as the first World Heritage City of India. While the celebrations in the city are still going on, many questions are waiting to be answered; What part of the history of the city is valued by the world? How can that be separated from the life that goes on? Will the city freeze? Is no development possible? Will the development be limited to catering tourism? Will development mean beautification and creating false historic facades? What about people who live there? What about the poverty ridden areas? Will participation be relegated to mere consensus building, rather than active involvement of inhabitants? This event will focus on reflecting over these questions through examples of other cities, instances and initiatives. 

(Collaboration: International Council on Monuments and Sites)

 

 

 

 

Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero

(119 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Samrouddhi Porey

 

The film will be introduced by Suhas Borker

 

Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero is a Marathi biopic based on the life of Baba Amte's son and Ramon Magsaysay award winner Dr. Prakash Amte.  Baba Amte takes his son Prakash, who has just finished his doctor's degree,  on a picnic to Hemalkasa, a village in the Bhamragad taluka of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. How this visit transforms the life of the young medical graduate? Prakash moves to Hemalkasa. Dr. Mandakini, Prakash's college mate and wife soon joins him without any condition. To work among the Gond Madia tribals becomes their mission. Along the way, they struggle with wild animals, Naxalites and corrupt government officials.  Nana Patekar as Prakash Amte proves himself again to be a versatile actor while Sonali Kulkarni as Dr. Mandakini gives an absorbing performance. Today, Hemalkasa sets a benchmark in social transformation as well as raises questions about what kind of 'growth' led 'development' do we want in India? The film was made on a budget of 2.5 crores and became such a hit that it grossed a record six-time return for the producers

 

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritik ani Rananniti Adhyayan Samiti)

 

 

A multimedia exhibition that highlights unheard voices – the story of a woman still living in a refugee camp; how a city-wide Bachelors degree examination was put on hold due to a referendum in Sylhet; how two brothers travelled from Travancore State to the North-West Frontier Province for work and were stranded there at Partition, are some of the narratives. Narratives often not considered as part of popular imagination, the exhibition marries notions of history, memory, longing and belonging 

 

Curated by Aanchal Malhotra, The 1947 Partition Archives

 

Preview on Friday, 25 August 2017 at 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a film screening on 

TUESDAY 29 AUGUST 2017 AT 18:30 AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

 

Itihas Konya (Daughters of History; Bangladesh)

(125 min; 1999; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Shameem Akhtar

 

The film will be introduced by Prof. Ira Bhaskar, Professor, Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: The 1947 Partition Archives)

 

Discussion on the book edited Richard Falk, Manoranjan Mohanty and Victor Faessel (Orient Blackswan, 2017)

 

Speakers: Dr. Upendra Baxi, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi; Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development; and Dr. Ashis Nandy, Emeritus Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

Chair: Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, former Director, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

This volume presents multiple viewpoints on the possible future of the planet, as well as on what people in different parts of the world hope for and fear about the near future

 

(Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

Celebrating 90 Years of Tagore’s Words on Java

Speaker: Prof. Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor, IIT Delhi

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Indonesia)

PERFORMANCE ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM  AT 18:30

Apara: A Look at Lord Krishna Beyond the Myths and Stories of Common Retelling

A presentation in Bharatanatyam by Ameya Repertory

 

Dancers: Chitra Chandrasekhar Dasarathy from Bangalore along with her disciples Rajalakshmi Suresh; Roopa Manoj; Roopa Guha; Rajeshwari Aravind; Priya Kaul; and Aswathy Manoharan

 

Lead speaker: Shri Shivshank r Menon, Chairperson, ICS Advisory Board

Panelists: Prof. Alka Acharya, Honorary Fellow and former Director, ICS; Dr. Zorawar Daulet Singh, Foreign Affairs Analyst and Fellow, Centre for Policy Research; and Dr. Navroz Dubash, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

 

Moderator: Shri Zakka Jacob, Deputy Editor, CNN-News 18

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)

 

 

 

 

The State of Indian Democracy
 

Speaker: Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra,  President, IIC

 

(Collaboration: Pai Panandikar Trust)

 

 

Poetry and Music

Pran Nevile pays tribute to Ghalib and Kaifi Azmi followed by a concert by Dr Meelu Verma

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)

 

 

 

Interpreting the Past through Science

Speaker: Dr. V. N. Prabhakar, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Visiting Faculty at the Archaeological Sciences Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.  Carried out investigations on the bead drilling technology of Dholavira Harappans, copper remains from Dholavira, palaeoclimatic investigations of northern Rajasthan based on archaeobotanical remains.

Chair: Shri B.M Pande
 

Archaeology has emerged into a multi-disciplinary science, departing from the traditional methodology of ‘descriptive archaeology’. It now employs various scientific disciplines, like geology, material sciences, metallurgy, anthropology, botany, zoology, computer science, statistics, etc. This lecture will explain a few case studies of understanding and interpreting the past using scientific disciplines, in particular, those undertaken by the speaker in the field of Harappan archaeology. The case studies will include on the bead drilling technology of the Harappans, evidence for textile remains and their interpretation, evidence for mobility of people during third and second millennium BCE.