Speaker: Professor Sachchidanand Sahai, Adviser to Angkor Archaeological Park and Preah Vihear under the Royal Government of Cambodia. Author of the recently published book Bhadreshvara: A Forgotten Form of Shiva in India and Southeast Asia

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Y. Sudershan Rao, Chairman, ICHR

 

Chair: 

 

Professor Sahai  will present  the temple art and architecture  of Southeast Asia  on  the basis of his  past ten years  of field work  in the region. Intricately designed world heritage temples of My-s’on (Vietnam), Wat Phu (Laos), Angkor and Preah Vihear and the temple region of Prambanan in Indonesia will be presented as an inter-linked chain of temples, responsible for cultural cohesion between India and Southeast Asia. This presentation will take you through Southeast Asia, along its rivers and mountain chains to appreciate millennia of  vibrant artistic traditions and see for the first time    Bhadreshvara (Shiva), the Lord of the Mekong-Ganga and of the Indian Ocean

 

(Collaboration: Indian Council for Historical Research)

 

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (156 min; dvd; English subtitles)
 

A brilliant adaptation of the Shakespearean play by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears

Opera in three acts filmed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1981

 

With Ileana Cotrubas (Tytania); James Bowman (Oberon); Curt Appelgren (Bottom); Cynthia Buchan (Hermia); Ryland Davies (Lysander); Dale Duesing (Demetrius); Felicity Lott (Helen); and others

 

The London Philharmonic

Conductor: Bernard Haitink  

 

Fourth edition of the ‘Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi – 2025’
 

Speakers:

(Collaboration: Green Circle of Delhi)

 

Odissi 

By Sujata Mohapatra, disciple and daughter-in-law of the late Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra

 

Accompanist: Soumya Ranjan (flute); Ramesh Chander (violin); Rupak Kumar (vocal); and Ekalabya Muduli 

(pakhawaj)

 

(Collaboration: Mohindar Dhillon Music Foundation)

 

Shri Rakesh Sood, former Indian diplomat; Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, Chairman, Indian Infosec Consortium; and Prof. Varun Sahni, Professor of International Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru University will discuss Diplomatic Dimensions of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century by Yogendra Kumar (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2015)

 

Chair: Shri Shiv Shankar Menon, former National Security Adviser

 

Harappans and their Contemporary Cultures
 

Speaker: Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, archaeologist and presently Visiting Faculty at the Archaeological Sciences Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

 

The Harappan Civilization is one among the four Bronze Age Civilizations of third millennium BCE that flourished for nearly 700 years in the river valleys of Indus-Ghagger-Hakra in modern India and Pakistan. The Harappans in order to cater to their economic prospects interacted with different cultures all around the Greater Indus Valley, the Kashmir Neolithic complex,  the Kulli and Helmand cultures on the west and northwest and reached as far as Central Asian region and also with Mesopotamia. Thus, the Harappans were enterprising in establishing cultural contacts with several contemporary ones, for various purposes of trade, extraction of raw materials of various kinds for catering to both domestic and external needs. This lecture will focus on some of these contemporary cultures of Harappans, with the aid of illustrative slides supported by distribution maps

 

 

 

By Devika Rao with her disciples, Prisha Shukla and Vyshnavi Rao from the UK

 

A meeting of the traditional and the modern, this is a new dance choreography that uses traditional Indian dance styles, animation and visual effects  to explore personal stories of strong women in  the 21st century

 

 

By Arshad Ali

 

Followed by

Sitar Recital

By Purbayan Chatterjee

 

 

 

Illustrated lecture by Gautam Hemmady

An exhibition of major themes and trends in the history of Indian matchbox label design

From the collection of Gautam Hemmady

 

Preview on Friday, 27 May 2016 at 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a talk in the Annexe Lecture Room II on

WEDNESDAY, 1 JUNE 2016 AT 18:30

Matchbox Labels

Illustrated lecture by Gautam Hemmady