As a run up to Hiroshima Day there will be a dramatic reading of the play 'The Gift' written by Sagari Chhabra, award-winning author, film-maker and poet

 

'The Gift' is situated in a capital city when a nuclear device is detonated. Almost everyone is jubilant at going nuclear.Then one day the nuclear siren rings. Everyone rushes into the underground shelter...

 

Dramatic reading by Sagari Chhabra (playwright) and Oroon Das (actor)

 

The Jumpstart Alchemy Lab

Jumpstart and Pratham Books cook up some new theories on how children learn science in middle school. Panel discussions, activity workshop by experts and an open house

 

(Collaboration: German Book Office, New Delhi; Frankfurt Book Fair; Embassy of Austria; EdTech Review; Scholastic; and Pratham Books)

 

Speaker: Dr. Nachiket  Chanchani, Assistant Professor of South Asian Art and Visual Culture, University of Michigan  and currently  J. Gonda Foundation Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,  Leiden

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

This talk aims to explicate how a remote mountainous landscape around the upper reaches of the Ganga River in the Himalayas transformed into an exalted region evoking deep faith in millions of Hindu pilgrims. From approximately the third century BCE up to the thirteenth century CE, numerous stone monuments, steles, and statues were erected in this landscape. This talk explores the processes by which these monuments and sculptures evoked mythic worlds, embedded historical memories, enhanced the mountain range’s appearance, and altered its symbolic significance