Erstwhile Nalanda

Speaker: Dr. Lokesh Chandra, President, ICCR

Imagining History and the Future: Through Cinema, Literature and Architecture
Speaker: Snehanshu Mukherjee, Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Along with teaching and practicing architecture, he has remained a keen observer of the performing arts
 
Chair: Shohini Ghosh, Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia
 
This presentation looks at how architecture helps to give physical shape and add the dimension of time convincingly to written works of fiction as depicted in cinema by exploring specific scenes from classic films such as Ray’s Aparajito, Charulata and Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood amongst others

The programmes include discussions, film by Tadpole Artists Collective; theatre by Space Theatre Ensemble (Goa); concert by Gede Robi Supriyanto, Indonesian rock musician, activist, writer and farmer; and songs by Vidya Rao and Tenzin Choegyal, Tibetan Australian musician
 

Photographs by Karam Puri
 
Inauguration on Thursday, 1st October  2015 at 18:30
 
E.P. - Extended Play is a body of work six years in the making. It invites the viewer to a rare glimpse of the homes of former Nawabs and Maharajahs across the subcontinent. The Other Stories include a visual journey of the quiet decay of Calcutta through the ages
 

Non-Violence in Action
Speaker: Shri Madhukar Upadhyay, journalist, will speak on Gandhiji; Shri Alok Bajpai will make an audio-visual presentation
 
Followed by Inauguration of an exhibition of photographs and posters
By Shri A. Annamalai, Director, National Gandhi Museum
 
On view at the Annexe Art Gallery till 3 October 2015, 11:00 to 19:00