directors: Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Jairazbhoy

The film will be introduced by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy

Screening will be followerd by a discussion

Part of a continuing applied ethnomusicology project,this film explores the sacred the sacred music, dance and rituals of the devidasis and devidasas, woman and man dedicated to the goddess Renuka/yellamma of the Deccan. Narrated in the fictive viose of the Goddness and her son,Parasurama

(Collaboration: Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of indian Studies)

Panelists: Prof. Hari Vasudevan, IFPS and Department of History, Calcutta University who is a Russia/CIS specialist; Shri Nandan Unnikrishnan, Observer Research Foundation and leading commentator on CIS affairs; Shri Sudhir Devare, former Director General, ICWA and former Ambassador to the Ukraine; and Shri Pramit Palchaudhury, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Hindustan Times

Chair: Dr. Madhavan Palat, Nehru Memorial Fund and Russia specialist

An exhibition of photographs from the collection of Archaeological Survey of India

Inauguration on 9th December 2013 at 6:30 pm

Prof. Kesavan Veluthat, Dept of History, University of Delhi; Prof. Najavf Haider; and Dr. Kumkum Roy, Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru university will discuss The ast Before Us: Historical Traditions in Early North India by Romila Thapar (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2013)

Char: Prof. Uday Kumar, Dept. of English, University of Delhi

DELHI - CAPTURING WOMEN'S LIVES AND CHANGE IN A CITY IN TRANSITION

Being Friends: Crossing Boundaries
Sharing the experiences of Amina Kidwai, Mohini Bahl and Asha Sheth who have been friends for over seventy years. Their friendship that was first initiated by the contact between their political families before Partition and in the 1950s and 1960s, the bond strengthened in the then new New Delhi. They will share memories of the subsequent decades, of lives which have quite naturally diverged, its vicissitudes, laughter, and an abiding commitment to a secular nation which continues to affirm their lives and friendship