Maritime Archaeology and Project Mausam: Reconnecting Across the Indian Ocean

Speaker: Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray, Hony. Prof. Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

Chairperson: Prof. Madhu Bhalla, formerly of Delhi University 

 

This presentation will discuss the Ministry of Culture’s Project Mausam, which was launched at the 38th World Heritage Session at Doha, Qatar on 20th June, 2014 and its implications for maritime archaeology in India. The intertwining of natural phenomena such as monsoon winds or Mawsim in Arabic and the ways in which these were harnessed historically to create cultural networks provide building blocks for contemporary societies, as they work towards universal values and trans-border groupings – both of which underwrite UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention

 

 

 

 

 

By Gayatri Girish from Chennai, disciple of the late Shri Vaigal Gnanaskandan and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Shri T.N. Seshagopalan

 

With Delhi R. Sridhar on violin and M.V. Chandrashekar on mridangam

 

(Collaboration: Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha)

 

 

 

 

Release of the first report by CRW voluntary network (Corporate Responsibility Watch)

 

(Collaboration: Business and Community Foundation)

 

 

 

Homeware designs in bamboo and wood handcrafted in Nagaland and Manipur

Presented by E’thaan Design Studio

 

Crafted by Master Artisans: Nungshi Renba, Khrolo, Ruovi, Thangmei, Kainok, Imongba, Katasibo, Nyamgai, Putsui, Vizovol and Temsu from Nagaland; and Teraphai women’s bamboo and cane self-help group under MWGSN, Langthabal, Imphal, Mainpur

 

Inauguration by Shri T.P. Subramony, Director INBAR Office in Delhi, Regional Coordinator for South Asia International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, New Delhi on Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

Geeti sen in conversation with Krishen Khanna

 

In creative expression the process becomes as significant as the initial idea. Invariably the results are not what were originally planned! In this dialogue, Geeti Sen will be in conversation with Krishen Khanna in exploring the genesis of ideas and his explorations in drawing and on the final canvas

 

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Sanjay Manchanda, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

 

Moderator: Dr. Raman Kapur

 

 

 

By Amrita Lahiri from Delhi, disciple of Swapnsaundari, Seetha Nagajothy and Jaikishore Mosalikanti, and recipient of the Sanskriti – Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship 2016

 

Accompanists: Sudha Raghuraman (vocal); M.V. Chandrashekar (mridangam); G. Raghuraman (flute) and Keshavan (nattuvannar)

 

 

Speaker: Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain


Chair: Shri Ashok Sajjanhar

 

(Collaboration: India Harmony Foundation)

 

Nazrul Evening 

Programme based on the newly released CD by Times Music 

 

Love Songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam

By Dr. Reba Som 

Accompanied by Ashim Das on tabla

 

Followed by

Shri Pinak Chakravarty, diplomat and former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh in conversation with Dr. Reba Som

 

Followed by screening of a film  

Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Rebel Poet (30 min; 2007; dvd; Bengali with English subtitles)

Director: Anjan Das

Script and research: Dr. Reba Som

 

Produced by Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs 

 

  

(43 min; 2016; dvd; English & with subtitles)

A film by Sanjoy Hazarika and Preeti Gill

Director: Maulee Senapati (technical)

 

Concept and development: Sanjoy Hazarika

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Rambuai focuses attention on a period in the nation’s history that has rarely figured in contemporary discourse, official reports, civil society dialogues or even scholarly debates. The film looks not just at the years of conflict and disturbances in this beautiful pocket of India, but also at the transition in mindsets that has enabled peaceful change to endure, the resolve that drove the Indian State, and the challenges that remain

 

(Collaboration: Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia)