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
 

With Agra gharana vocalist Janab Waseem Ahmed Khan (Khayal)

 

Initiated into ta'lim by his maternal grandfather Ustad Ata Hussain Khan, Janab Waseem Ahmed Khan has had the good fortune of learning with his father Ustad Naseem Ahmed Khan & uncle Ustad Shafi Ahmed Khan of the Agra gharana. In keeping with the rich repertoire of the gharana, he will present rarely heard ragas and bandish-es

 

Humayun's Tomb Conservation: A Scientific Approach

Speaker: Shri Ratish Nanda, Project Director, Aga Khan Trust For Culture

 

Chair: Dr. Janhwij Sharma, Director, Conservation, Archaeological Survey of India

 

From traditional scientific knowledge in preparation of lime mortar to state of art use of laser scanners - Humayun's tomb has benefited from a host of scientific conservation practices 

 

FRIDAY 13

 

Dr.  Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; Dr. Surajit Mitra, Director, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Shri Sunil Jain, Managing Editor, Financial Express will discuss Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda for Reform by Bibek Debroy (Gurgaon: Random House; 2014)

 

Chair: Dr. Subramanian Swamy

Acrylic on canvas – an exhibition of paintings

By Virendra Kumar from Delhi

 

Inauguration by Shri Ram V. Sutar on Tuesday, 10 March 2015 at 18:30

Vocal Recital

By Vidushi Kankana Bannerji

 

Rajasthani Folk Music

By Ustad Anwar Khan Manganiar and Group