Indian Deities Worshipped in Japan (50 min; 2015; dvd; English)

09 February 2016, 05:30 am
Indian Deities Worshipped in Japan (50 min; 2015; dvd; English)
Director, Script Writer and Cameraman: Benoy K. Behl who will introduce the film
Produced by XPD Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
Most people are not aware that at least a score of Hindu deities are very actively worshipped in Japan. In fact, there are hundreds of shrines to Saraswati alone. There are innumerable representations of Lakshmi, Indra, Brahma, Ganesha, Garuda and other deities. Moreover, deities that have been practically forgotten in India, such as Vayu and Varuna are still worshipped in Japan. The film presents the shared culture of India and Japan
 

Sarod Recital

08 February 2016, 05:30 am
Sarod Recital
Programme Type
Cultural
By Siddhartha Bhose from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Partha Sarathy and Pt. Soumitra Lahiri 
 
Accompanied by Pt. Shiv Shankar Ray on tabla 
 

In Memory of Ustad Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar

07 February 2016, 05:30 am
In Memory of Ustad Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar
Programme Type
Cultural
Dagarvani Dhrupad Evening
Vocal recital
By Abhijeet Sukhdane
 
Followed by 
Vocal Recital
By Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar 
Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj
 
 
 

From Hour Glass to Size Zero

06 February 2016, 05:30 am
From Hour Glass to Size Zero
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Ms Sathya Saran who will trace the changing perception of Indian beauty in cinema through the early days till the present. It will talk about some of the iconic beauties and the unique aspect of each that wooed the audience imagination. The presentation will also talk about the influences that changed perceptions and brought in a resultant change in the body shapes and looks of screen divas
 
 

Calcutta in the 1950s

05 February 2016, 05:30 am
Calcutta in the 1950s
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Speaker: Dr. Sumanta Banerjee is a cultural historian who specializes in research into popular culture, particularly of the colonial period. His best known works include The Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising,The Thema Book of Naxalite Poetry, The Popular and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta  and Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal
 
Chair: Shri Hiranmay Karlekar
 
The decade of the 1950s was a crucial period in the history of Calcutta, charged with dramatic transitions and traumatic experiences in the quotidian existence of its citizens. Their economic, political and socio-cultural existential world changed under the impact of a number of historical developments
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

05 February 2016, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Prof. Dipankar Gupta, Shiv Nadar University & Director, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory; Ms Amrita Bhalla, Dept. of English, Jesus and Mary College; and Ms. Mandira Ghosh , author will discuss In Search of Freedom: Journeys Through India and South – East Asia by Sagari Chhabra (NOIDA: HarperCollins, 2015)
 
Chair: Prof. Shyam B. Menon, Vice Chancellor, Ambedkar University
 

Gates of the Lord

04 February 2016, 05:30 am
Gates of the Lord
Programme Type
Discussions
A discussion on the book, Gates of the Lord : A Tradition of Krishna Painting (Mapin India)
 
Panelists: Madhuvanti Ghose, Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan and Islamic Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the curator of the exhibition, Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings; Kapil Sharma contemporary artist and designer who is inspired by the legacy of his forefathers in Nathdwara; and Nilima Sheikh, one of India's most respected artists  
 

Beyond Borders: On The Sri Lanka Ramayana Trail

03 February 2016, 05:30 am
Beyond Borders: On The Sri Lanka Ramayana Trail
Programme Type
Discussions
Speaker: Shri Anand Sethi, electronics engineer, International Development Finance professional, itinerant traveller, writer/author on history of technology and military history
 
Chair: Ambassador K.V. Rajan, Convenor, India Discussion Group
 
Chief Guest: Prof Lokesh Chandra, President, ICCR
 
A fascinating and unusual travelogue covering the most important sites in Sri Lanka mentioned in most of the over 320 versions of the Ramayana. The presentation does not take a view or opinion, either for or against, of the historical and geographical authenticity of what is stated in the Ramayana 
 

What the Fields Remember (52 min; 2015; HD; English and with subtitles)

03 February 2016, 05:30 am
What the Fields Remember (52 min; 2015; HD; English and with subtitles)
Directed by Subasri Krishnan who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
On 18th February 1983, from 9 am to 3 pm, more than 2000 Muslims were killed in the town of Nellie and its surrounding villages in Assam. People’s homes were burnt down and their fields destroyed. Most of those who died were old people, women and children. Till date the Nellie massacre remains on the margins of India’s public history, and is virtually wiped out from the nation’s collective memory. The film revisits the massacre three decades later to explore ideas of violence, memory and justice. The film tries to understand how physical spaces that have witnessed the violence continue to mark people’s relationship to history and memory; and attempts to raise larger questions around collective memory – of what we choose to remember and why we choose to forget 
 

Water Impressions

03 February 2016, 05:30 am
Water Impressions
An exhibition of photographs by Amita Virmani from Delhi
 
Preview on Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 18:30