Beyond Barbed Wires: Discussing the Deoli Experience
06 October 2015, 05:30 am
Beyond Barbed Wires: Discussing the Deoli Experience
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions,
Webcasts
Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn (35 min; dvd; English)
Directed by Rafeeq Ellias who will introduce the film
A Knock at Midnight - More than 50 years ago the lives of thousands of Chinese living in India changed when they were taken from their homes in the Darjeeling and Assam areas to an internment camp in Deoli, Rajasthan. The film explores in gripping vignettes how some ex-internees have lived with the experience
The Deoliwallahs – The Last Generation of Survivors of the Chinese Internment Camp in Deoli
Panelists: Michael Cheng was six years old when he was interned. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his family; Joy Ma is a writer and attended Delhi University. Born in Deoli, she is working on a book about her family’s journey in India; Yin Marsh was 13 when she went to Deoli. She is the author of Doing Time with Nehru; and Steven Wan who was a teenager when he was interned with his family. He lives in Toronto, Canada
Chair: Dilip D’Souza, Mumbai-based writer and journalist
In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
05 October 2015, 05:30 am
In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Director and Professor in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, who will speak on her new book published by Primus Books
Discussant: Ms Gayatri Sinha, art critic and curator
Chair: Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati
Fun and Frolics
05 October 2015, 05:30 am
Fun and Frolics
Programme Type
Cultural
In his lifetime, Rabindranath Tagore penned some rare ‘nonsense’ rhymes numbering about 300, in seven slim books. These verses have seldom been known outside Bengal and never rendered through performing arts: even in Bengal.
Shri Utpal K Banerjee has rendered them into rhymed English verses, which have now been published by the Sahitya Akademi in four volumes under the generic title: Rainbow Rhymes of Tagore. A selection out of these English verses will be visualised – in innovative classical forms by the following well-known choreographer-dancers
Purva Dhanasree in Vilasini Natyam; Kavita Dwivedi in Odissi; Pratibha Prahlad in Bharatanatyam; and Saswati Sen in Kathak
Revisiting Cultural Resistance
01 October 2015, 05:30 am
Revisiting Cultural Resistance
Programme Type
Discussions
Speakers: Romila Thapar ; K. Satchidanandan and Shyam B. Menon
Chair: Githa Hariharan
The discussion will be accompanied by a presentation of the new sites of the Indian Writers’ Forum,www.indianculturalforum.in and www.guftugu.in, the e-journal of arts and literature, Guftugu.
Chair: Githa Hariharan
The discussion will be accompanied by a presentation of the new sites of the Indian Writers’ Forum,www.indianculturalforum.
Frontiers of History
03 October 2015, 05:30 am
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
Frontiers of History
Programme Type
Talks
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
Maati Maa: The Festival of the Living Soul
01 October 2015, 05:30 am
Maati Maa: The Festival of the Living Soul
Programme Type
Festivals
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
