Keynote Comments: Shri M.J. Akbar

 

Panelists: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Carnegie India; Air Marshal (Retd.) Vinod Patney,  former Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force; Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam, SDS (Air), National Defence College; and others

 

Chair: Shri Nitin Gokhale

 

Discussion around the new book India’s Wars: A Military History (1947-1971) by Arjun Subramaniam (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2016)

By Subroto Bondo

 

Followed by

Prof. Samik Bandyopadhyay, Tagore Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University will speak on the book Metropolis: Zillionth Shades of Din  by Subroto Bondo

 

 

Composers and Decomposers: Music of The First and Second Viennese Schools

An illustrated talk by Dr Punita G. Singh 

 

Some of the giants of western art music lived and worked in Vienna for seminal periods of their lives. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert dominated the late 18th and early 19th century, composing music characterized by form, elegance and tonal and textural clarity. In contrast with this group referred to as the ‘First Viennese School’, a century later the ‘Second Viennese School’ comprising Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Anton Webern and Alban Berg, dispensed with tonality and experimented with alternative and often dissonant dimensions of sound to create music. Both schools contributed ideas and sounds that have had a significant impact on the evolution of music.

 

Punita is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi.

 

Avaaz Do!

 

An exhibition of banners by over 400 artists, curators, art teachers and members of the creative community from Mumbai and Delhi

 

 

 

Also on display are freshly re-printed ‘Postcards for Gandhi’

 

 

 

Presented by Sahmat

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Shri Jayant Prasad, Director General, Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses; Prof. Nirmala Joshi, former Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Gulshan Dietl, former Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University will discuss Afghanistan Post – 2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories Edited by Rajen Harshé and Dhananjay Tripathi (South Asian ed. New Delhi: Routledge, 2016)

 

Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma,  President, South Asian University

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Seven Wonders of the Muslim World (60 min; 2008; dvd; English)                                                                    
Director: Faris Kermani

Explore the lives and beliefs of six young people whose usual places of worship are some of the most beautiful and historic mosques in the Muslim world. In this series of intimate portraits, join them as thy leave their homes and families to travel to Saudi Arabia on their journeys of a lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca, where the prophet Muhammad was born.

The seven wonders of the title include: The Grand Mosque in Mecca; The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; The Alhambra in Granada, Spain; The Blue Mosque in Istanbul; The Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali; The Imam Mosque in Esfahan, Iran; and The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan

 

 

 

 

A discussion based on a book by Swami Sachidananda Bharathi, Founder and Acharya-guru of Dharma Bharathi Mission

 

Speakers: Ambassador (Retd) Balkrishna Shetty; Dr. Sona Khan, Senior Advocate , Supreme Court; Sister Mary Scaria, Advocate, Supreme Court; and Shri H C Jain, IRS, Chief Commissioner, Income Tax

 

Moderator: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

 

Sarod Recital 

By Dr. Akash Deep

With Ustad Akram Khan on the tabla

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Vocal

By Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar

With Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on the pakhawaj