Seasons of Change: Sri Lanka's Newfound Optimism

Speakers : Prof. Pradeep Jeganathan, Shiv Nadar University; Shri Amit Baruah, Resident Editor, The Hindu;

Ms Padma Rao Sundarji, author of Sri Lanka: The New Country ; and Prof. Shwetha Singh, South Asia University

 

Chair: Prof. Sasanka Perara, South Asia University

An exhibition of photographs by Sujata Khanna, Vinit Gupta, Nirvair Singh Rai,  Raj Lalwani, Richa Bhavanam, and Sujatro Ghosh

 

Curated by Aditya Arya 

 

Opening on Friday, 13 March at 18.30 

 

Celebrating the life of the Bandwallas, the camera’s gaze turns to the men who make up wedding bands; it looks within their lives in search of answers. The gaze is both deeply empathetic as well as insightful

 

Qawwali

By Dhruv Sangari and troupe

 

19:00 – 21:00

Saaz –o- Awaz: An Evening of Ghazals

By Radhika Chopra and Ustad Hamid Ali Khan

 

Ghazal Ahd ba Ahd (Ghazal Through the Ages)

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in conversation with Ziya Us Salam

 

12:45 – 13:45

Filmon ki Zabaan Urdu (Urdu – The Voice of Indian Films)

Speakers: Irshad Kamil, Muzaffar Ali, M.K. Raina, and Nandita Das

Moderator: Ziya Us Salam

 

14:30 – 15:30

Tarjuma: Haasil Aur La-haasili (Lost and Found in Translation)

Speakers: Ajmal Kamal, Ali Madeeh Hashmi, Anisur Rahman  and Mohammad Zakir

Moderator: Abdul Naseer Khan

 

15:45 – 17:00

In Conversation

Intizar Hussain in conversation with Asif Farrukhi

 

Jashn-e Rekhta : Celebrating Urdu: 14 and 15  March 2015
 
Urdu Adab ki Taanisi Awaz (Word of Women in Urdu Literature)
Azra Abbas, Sukrita Paul Kumar and Tarannum Riyaz
 
Moderator: Baran Farooqi
 
12:45 – 13:45
Urdu – Insaani Wahdat ki Zabaan (Urdu – The Language of Inclusion)
Gopi Chand Narang in conversation with Shafey Kidwai
 
 
14:30 – 15:30
Krishan Chander – Afsane ka Naghmanigaar (Krishan Chander – A Lyricist in Prose)
Speakers: Reoti Sharan Sharma, Salma Siddiqui, Shamsul Haq Usmani and Satyapal Anand
 
15:45 – 17:00
Internet ki Duniya Mein Urdu (Urdu in the World of Internet)
Speakers: Ajmal Kamal, Ali Madeeh Hashmi, Anwer Sen Roy and Rana Safvi
Moderator: Saif Mehmood
 
17:15 – 18:30
Urdu Mein Jasoosi Adab (Detective Fiction in Urdu)
Speakers: C.M. Naim, Khaled Javed, Neelabh Ashk and Syed Mohd. Ashraf 

Jashn-e Rekhta : Celebrating Urdu
 
In Conversation
Javed Akhtar in conversation with Rakhshanda Jalil
 
12:45 – 13:45
Urdu aur Hindi: Quarbaten aur Faasle (Urdu and Hindi: Convergence and Divergence)
Speakers: Ashok Vajpeyi; Purushottam Agrawal; and Shamim Hanfi
Moderator: Pervaiz Alam
 
14:30 – 15:30
“Padhant” 
Recitation by Zia Mohyeddin
 
15:45 - 17:00
Mushaire ka Badalta Rang-Roop (The Changing Face of Mushaira)
Kumar Vishwas, Munawwar Rana and Satyapal Anand with Ravish Kumar
 
 
17:15 – 18:30
Urdu Shayari aur Tahzeeb: Ek Zaati Tajraba (Reliving Urdu Poetry and Culture)
Saeed Naqvi in conversation with Obaid Siddiqui
 
19:00 – 21:00
Film- Garam Hava (Scorching Winds)
(146 min; 1973; dvd; English subtitles)
A film by M.S. Sathyu
 
With Balraj Sahni, Farooq Sheikh, Shaukat Kaifi, A.K. Hangal
 
Recipient of the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, National Film Awards, India  1974; Filmfare Awards 1975 for Best Screenplay; Best Story; and Best Dialogue Writer
 
 
M S. Sathyu’s landmark film on the plight of a North Indian Muslim family, in the post partition period of 1947. The protagonist, a businessman is caught in a dilemma of whether to move to Pakistan or stay back. The film details the slow disintegration of his family, and is one of the most poignant films ever made on India's partition