An exhibition of emerging and contemporary artists
Curators: Dolly Narang and Siddhartha Tagore
 
Preview on Wednesday, 9 September 2015 at 18:30

Shri Vishwajyoti Ghosh, graphic novelist and cartoonist; Shri Sudhir Tailang, political cartoonist; and Ms Urvashi Butalia, Director, Zubaan – an imprint of Kali for Women will discuss Out of Line: Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary India by Christel Rashmi Devadawson (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2014)

 

Chair: Sir William Mark Tully, senior journalist

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s – Eye View of the World (120 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Director: Michael Schwarz
 
Based on Michael Pollan’s best – selling book showing how human desires are an essential and intricate part of natural history. The film explores the natural history of four plants – the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato – and the corresponding human desires – sweetness, beauty, intoxication and controlling nature that link their destinies to our own. One of the great conceits of human civilization is to put ourselves outside nature. Taking these plants’ perspectives of the world restores human activity to its proper place in the matrix of nature
 

imkuti: Memories of Dust, Sounds and Agonies (56 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Dheeman Bhattacharyya

Produced by Apne Aap Women Worldwide

 

Shot on location across villages in Gujarat and Bengal, the film is an outcome of the research conducted by Apne Aap Women Worldwide in collaboration with ICSSR on the Educational Attainment of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes in the six states of India). It explores the issues of growing marginalization of the DNT community and their eco system in the neo-liberal society

 

Followed by a discussion

Panelists: Prof. Ramnika Gupta, author of Aadivasi Asmita ka Sankat  and Editor of Yuddhrat Aam Admi; and Dheeman Bhattacharyya, filmmaker

 

Moderator: Ruchika Gupta, Professor New York University and Founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide

 

Illustrated presentation in Hindi by Professor Tomio Mizokami, Professor Emeritus, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan
 
Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

By Vishal Krishna from Varanasi, disciple of the late Smt Sitara Devi and recipient of the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship 2015
 
Accompanists: Kushal Krishna (tabla); Brijesh Mishra (vocal); Kamal Ahmad (sarangi); and Yar Mohammad (sitar)

Nritya-bhinaya by Uma Sharma and her group
Vocal support and music direction by Pt. Jwala Prasad
 
The programme includes the poetry of Swami Haridas, Surdas, Meera, Jaydev, Rakshan and Vidyapati

One Tree, One King and The Open Road, in the context of English fiction writing in India
Discussion and readings from Lavanya Reghunathan Fischer’s new book (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2015)
 
Speakers: Dr. Vijay Tankha, Head of Department of Philosophy, St. Stephens College; Dr. Giti Chandra, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, St. Stephens College; and Ms V.K. Karthika, publisher and Chief Editor, HarperCollins Publishers
 

Presented by Lee-Alison Sibley (soprano) from USA; with Claire Tynte-Irvine (harpist) from Wales
 
The artists will present a concert of works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Handel, G.B. Pergolesci and others

Reading Ibsen in Translation
 
Dramatised readings from Ibsen’s works translated into Hindi by Astri Ghosh – A Doll’s House (Gudiya Ghar) and Ghosts (Pretchhaya)
 
Readings in the original Norwegian and Hindi by Astri Ghosh; Moonmoon Singh; Sukumar Tudul; and Rajesh Tailang
Directed by Anuradha Kapur