Right to Die or Assisted Dying: The Debate Continues
Speakers: Dr. S.K. Khandelwal, All India Institute of Medical Sciences; Shri Rajiv Mehrotra, Secretary, Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama; and Shri Arudra Burra, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
 
Moderator: Dr. S.K. Khandelwal
 
A desire for hastened death is not uncommon. Patients with terminal illnesses or with unbearable suffering have frequently made this request to their family members or treating physicians. The argument is over the right to die with a doctor’s help at the time and in the manner of your own choosing. The critics find the whole idea as repugnant. For others, the legalization of doctor-assisted dying is the first step on a slippery slope where the vulnerable are threatened and where premature death becomes a cheap alternative to palliative care. Do people always choose wisely, do we have safeguards in place?
 

Speaker: Dr. Arundhati Virmani, École des Hautes Étudesen Sciences Sociales, Marseilles

 

Chair: Smt Varsha Das, former Director, National Gandhi Museum, Rajghat

 

The globalization of the figure of Mahatma Gandhi received a formal endorsement with the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 2007 to observe October 2, his birth anniversary, as the International Day of Non-Violence. This talk explores the agents, mediums and processes of production, and implications of exporting a national heritage by looking at the installation of Gandhi statues across the world. It presents the features of specific statues and draws out comparisons between different representations

 

Based on the Ima or Mother’s Market in Manipur where Manipuri women congregate to sell their products, this exhibition aims to take the beautiful arts and crafts of Manipur to a larger audience and in the long run bring peace in the Northeast. Weavers and bamboo crafts women will demonstrate and display products such as Enaphi (a type of shawl woven in cotton or silk); phanek (fabric wrapped around the waist like a skirt); leiroom (handwoven scarf); and a variety of bamboo products

 

Inauguration by Ms Marina Walter, Deputy Country Director, UNDP, India on Monday, 21 September at 09:30

Cultural Potpourri of Maharashtra
Pandita Ramabai  - An installation by Prof. Shukla Sawant, Professor of Visual Studies, JNU
Poetry Reading by Dr. Anil Surya from his recently published collection Mazi Gazal, Sakhe, Aai-Baba-aan Lok
The Looms of Paithan  - Presentation by Smt Hema Devare, writer
 
Shri Uday Kulkarni and Shri Savi Sawakar, artists in conversation with Prof. Y.S. Alone, Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU
 
Concept: Suhas Borker and Vijay Naik

Alarmel Valli, Bharatanatyam dancer in conversation with Arundhati Subramaniam, poet

Amrita Pritam – The Great Literary Genius
A short film, enactment of extracts from her autobiography Raseedee Ticket
 
Recitation of  Amrita Pritam’s short poems
By Dr. Lavlin Thadani, well-known poet, a filmmaker and actor
 

The fifteenth edition of Open Frame Film Festival and Forum is about diversity – of people, stories, ideas, narratives, histories, identities, world views and perspectives. The festival will show case 36 films that explore and uphold these pluralities of being and becoming
 
The festival includes workshops, discussions, and conversations. For details of the festival and screening schedules, kindly please log onto www.psbt.org and www.iicdelhi.in
 

Natya Sangeet – Music of Maharashtra (Marathi Sangeet)
Natya Sangeet is a form of music developed in Maharashtra for theatre (drama, natak) in the 19^th century. The drama form is Sangeet Natak where performing arts, music and drama come together. Over time, the music performed for drama became so popular that a separate genre evolved and independent music concerts called Natya Sangeet were held. This form is largely based on ragas using specific medium tempo talas with the lyrics in Marathi language
 
Illustrated lecture by Prof. Vidyadhar Vyas, senior leading performing vocalist of the Paluskar tradition of Gwalior Gharana, he is the son and disciple of Gayanacharya Pt. Narayanrao Vyas and the foremost disciple of Sangeet Maharshi Pt. Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. Using the pseudonym, “Atul Vyas:, Pt Vyas has essayed a number of roles as an actor in several well-known Marathi musicals and presenting Natya Sangeet concerts to wide acclaim

Reading Latin America: Pablo Neruda

A discussion series on well-known literary figures of Latin America

 

Conceptualised and coordinated by Prof. Vibha Maurya, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi

 

Speakers: Dr. Veena Ravikumar, Associate Professor, Lady Shriram College; Dr. Maneesha Taneja, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi; Shri Dinesh Shukla, well-known poet and translator who has translated Pablo Neruda’s poems

 

Illustrated lecture by Sunaina Suneja who will share a first-hand experience working at the grassroot level to revive this craft