INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Buddhist Sculptures of Sanchi
Speaker: Dr. Archana Asthana, Archaeological Survey Of India
Chair: Shri R.C. Agrawal
Chair: Shri R.C. Agrawal
THE OPEN FRAME 2017
15 and 16 September, 10:00 onwards
Mini – INPUT: A curated package of the best public television programmes from around the world, from the International Conference of Broadcasters, Greece, held in May 2017
Collaboration: Doordarshan; and INPUT - International Public Television
17 to 19 September, 10:00 onwards
Screening of PSBT Films, discussions and conversations
For details of the festival and screening schedules, kindly please log onto www.psbt.org and www.iicdelhi.in
(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)
ART MATTERS
Kalibanga Ka Anveshi
A biographical sketch of linguist and explorer L.P. Tessitori
By Om Thanvi
Tribal and Buddhist Oral traditions of North Western Himalayas
Speaker: Ms Noor Zaheer, writer and researcher, writes in English, Hindi and Urdu. Some of her works include: Denied by Allah, My God is a Woman, Silent Dunes, Raging Forests, Mere Hisse ki Roshnai, Surkh Karavan ke Hamsafar (Hindi travelogue-Pakistan), Aaj ke Naam (Biography of Faiz Ahmed Faiz), The Dancing Lama on Buddhist Performance Traditions of North Western Himalayas. A committed theatre worker Noor Zaheer writes and directs plays, conducts theatre workshops and adapts and translates plays by well-known playwrights
Chair: Shri Kishore Thukral
To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990
To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990
Discussion on 'Where is Indian Media headed?'
Speakers: Ms Pamela Philipose, senior journalist and senior fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Shri M. K. Venu, Founding Editor, The Wire; and
Shri Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Catch News
Moderator: Suhas Borker
(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)
To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990
To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990
Discussion on 'Where is Indian Media headed?'
Speakers: Ms Pamela Philipose, senior journalist and senior fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Shri M. K. Venu, Founding Editor, The Wire; and
Shri Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Catch News
Moderator: Suhas Borker
(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)
Sitar Recital
Sitar Recital
By Anjan Saha from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Debiprasad Chatterjee
Parsi Theatre in Colonial Burma: The Showman, the Scene, the Consequence
Illustrated lecture by Kathryn Hansen, leading scholar of South Asian theatre history, with special expertise in the popular traditions in Hindi and Urdu and Professor Emerita of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, where she served as Director of the Center for Asian Studies. Her book, Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies, presents the life stories of four artists from the Parsi theatre. Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India, her first monograph, won the A.K. Coomaraswamy Book Prize
Chair: Dr. Shernaz Cama
Chair: Dr. Shernaz Cama
(Collaboration: PARZOR)
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Navigating India: $ 18 Trillion Opportunity
By Bharat Joshi (Rupa: New Delhi, 2017)
Panelists: Mr. Bill Spindle, South Asian Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal; Shri Baijayant “Jay” Panda, MP; Dr. Rahul Singh, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida
Chair: Shri Shakti Sinha, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library
Role of UPSC in Governance
Keynote Speaker: Shri Deepak Gupta, Former Chairman UPSC
Chair: Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary to the President of India
(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)