A Feel for Flamenco!

A presentation by Punita Singh

An emotive blend of song, rhythm and dance, Flamenco has evolved from being an expression of existential angst in the crucible of southern Spain to becoming a major genre of art and entertainment performed across the world. Declared an ‘intangible cultural heritage of humanity’ by the United Nations, Flamenco has antecedents in India through the Gypsy trail. The journey of Flamenco through space and time will be explored in this presentation by Punita and its syncopated rhythms, modal melodies, soulful songs and evocative dances illustrated via audio and video media 

Punita Singh is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi

 

 

Discussion on Indian Diplomacy @ 2020 – India on the Global Stage
 Chief Guest: Shri M.J. Akbar, Minister of External Affairs
 
Panelists: Amb. Jayant Prasad, Director-General, IDSA; Amb. Meera Shankar, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. and Germany; Shri Jayadev Ranade, President Centre for China Analysis and Study; Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra, Rector, JNU; Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, author of The Modi Doctrine; and Shri Ashok Malik, Distinguished Fellow, ORF
 
Moderator: Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar
 
India and the World a pioneering quarterly magazine-journal on international affairs will be launched during the discussion

 

(Collaboration: India Writes Network/TGII Media)

 

 

 

Health and Environment Series
 
Day & Night Body Rhythm – How it controls my health?
Series Moderator : Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director–Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College
 
 
Prof. A.B. Dey, Prof. & Head, Deptt. Of Geriatric Medicine, AIIMS; Dr. Tushar Kant Joshi, Occupational and Environmental Health Expert; Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director – Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College
 
 

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

 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search -II

A film presented by Ronald Eyre

 

Buddhism: Footprint of the Buddha-India (50 min; dvd; English)

To Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and India to discover the type of Buddhism practiced through Southeast Asia. Among those we meet are Buddhist monks – including one American, school children, novices and housewives. Each offers something from his own experience to help us come to grips with a religion that has high moral standards but does not believe in God

 

Catholicism: Rome, Leeds and the Desert (52 min; dvd; English)

Catholicism, especially since Vatican II, has undergone many changes. In this episode filed in Rome, Spain and England, we discover the diversity and the unity of the religious experience labelled the Holy Catholic Church

 

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

 

 

 

Hundreds of plants, flowers and fruits from Mesoamerica form the basis of Mexican gastronomy today. Many of these ingredients also travelled throughout the world and have since been assimilated by the cuisine of other countries. This exhibition describes the flora of Mexico through the voices of the first chroniclers and of curious, astonished travellers providing an introductory guide to those who wonder where certain foods come from

 

With photographs by Ariadna Cuadriello and Juan Pablo Cardona

 

Inauguration by Mr. Eduardo Martínez Curiel, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Mexico
on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 18:30
 

 

 

 

 

By Gayathri Rajaji from Chennai, disciple of Late Guru Adyar K Lakshman

 

 

An illustrated talk by Dr. Manju Kak on her new book, In the Shadow of the Devi: Kumaon. Of a land, people and craft (New Delhi, Niyogi Books 2017)

 

Chair: Dr. Molly Kaushal

 

The book details the legacy of a land, a people and a craft deeply entwined with its environment. Manju Kak looks at this enigmatic land of Kumaon through the prism of woodcraft, unique in its aesthetic in this part of India, documenting the styles, influences and techniques used by the craftsmen of Uttarakhand, as well as Kumaoni artisans’ world view and beliefs

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Mrinal Kaul, Assistant Professor at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University and is also coordinating its Centre for Religious Studies

 

Abhinavagupta (fl.c. 975-1025 CE), the non-dualist Trika ?aiva thinker of Kashmir and an unusual literary figure belonging to pre-modern South Asia, is recognized for his major contributions to diverse domains of knowledge, primarily philosophy, theology, and aesthetics. He is usually associated either with what is popularly known as ‘Kashmir ?aivism’ or with the Sanskrit aesthetic theory of rasa (“relish”). The former is an historically problematic designation for non-dualist ?aivism, of which Abhinavagupta is one of the main representatives

 

(Collaboration: Studio Abhyas)

 

 

 

By Shri  Leeladhar Mandloi, Director, Bharatiya Gyanpith


Chair: Laxmi  Shankar Bajpai

 

Former Director General of Doordarshan and Akashvani; a renowned poet, editor and film maker. He has several collections of poems and essays to his credit and has received numerous awards, including Raza award, Pushkin award, Nagarjun and Shamsher awards and Kriti Samman. He is also Editor of Naya Gyanoday, a literary Hindi magazine

 

(Collaboration: Indian Society for Authors)

 

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Speaker: Prof. Shahid Amin, A.M. Khwaja Chair in Social Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

(Collaboration: Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)