FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
06 April 2015, 05:30 am
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Programme Type
Talks
Architecture of Delhi: Modern to Contemporary
Illustrated lecture by Anupam Bansal and Malini Kochupillai
Chair: Itu Chaudhuri
Anupam Bansal and Malini Kochupillai are the authors of Delhi, Architectural Guide (DOM, 2013). Anupam Bansal is a practicing architect in the firm ABRD Architects. Malini Kochupillai is an architect and photographer who teaches at the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon
The Grand Programme: Gordon Sanderson, New Delhi and the Architecture of India, 1911-1915
02 April 2015, 05:30 am
The Grand Programme: Gordon Sanderson, New Delhi and the Architecture of India, 1911-1915
The exhibition examines the work of architect Gordon Sanderson, 1887-1915, who served as an officer of the colonial archaeological department from 1911 until his death in 1915. The exhibition highlights, through one, truncated, early twentieth-century life and work, the interconnected nature of biography, archaeology, art, architecture, authority and scholarship in the British Empire
The exhibition includes text panels and images drawn from colonial archives, private family records, and the extensive corpus of Sanderson’s architectural drawings composed in Britain, Egypt and India
Curator: Dr. Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University, UK
Designer: Siddhartha Chatterjee, seechange
Inauguration by Prof. Shahid Amin on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 18:30
An Ordinary Election (125 min; 2015; India/Germany; Hindi & English)
01 April 2015, 05:30 am
An Ordinary Election (125 min; 2015; India/Germany; Hindi & English)
Directed by Lalit Vachani who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
An Ordinary Election tells the extra-ordinary story of the Aam Aadmi Party’s debut election campaign in the constituency of R.K. Puram, Delhi. An intimate, ground-up perspective of the anxieties, ambitions, struggles, and intrigues from the electoral battleground itself
JASHN-E REKHTA : CELEBRATING URDU
14 March 2015, 05:30 am
JASHN-E REKHTA : CELEBRATING URDU
Programme Type
Festivals
Baitbazi; Dastangoi; Ghazal Sarai; Nukkad-Natak; Recitation; book exhibition; and calligraphy corner
Corridor outside Conference Room I
Pictorial Calligraphy
An exhibition by Qamar Dagar
On Sunday 15 from 15:30 to 16:30 in Conference Room I
Calligraphy Appreciation Session
Conducted by Qamar Dagar
The Other Dimension
18 March 2015, 05:30 am
The Other Dimension
Indian premiere of
Children of the Light
The Miracle in South Africa. The Legacy of Desmond Tutu
(92 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Directed by Dawn Eagle
Children of the Light is the first film to tell the story of Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, one of the fathers of modern day South Africa. With extensive archival footage, family photos and never before seen interviews, Children of the Light is a personal look into the legacy of one of the greatest peacemakers of our times
