Citadel of the Tiger – Success Story of Ranthambhore (30 min; dvd; English)

Director: Puneet Sood

 

The film focuses on the success story of tiger conservation in Ranthambhore. It also depicts other aspects of wildlife from the break of dawn to dusk

 

Terrorist Turns Conservationist (30 min; 2009; dvd; English)

Director: Rajesh Bedi

 

Shot in the forests of Assam at The Manas National Park, the film explores how Bodo militants and poachers who once ravaged the forests of its flora and fauna, and its habitats are now dedicated conservationists, saviours of the animals and the forests

 

 

 

By Devashish Dey from Varanasi, disciple of Pt. Pashupati Nath Mishra and  Pt. Mukund Vishnu Kalvint 

 

Accompanied by Kishore  Mishra on tabla

 

 

Introduction by Prof. Pushpesh Pant

 

Recital of his poems by Smt Seema Mishra Uniyal and others 

 

Chair: Dr. Ganga Prasad Vimal

 

An exhibition of paintings, installations and sculpture that interrogate political issues 

 

By Yadvendra Singh and Saggar Mehra from Delhi

 

Preview on Friday, 19  February 2016 at 18:30

 

In conversation with M.K. Raina

 

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

 

 

 

 

Archaeology of Transhumance in Ladakh

Speaker: Dr. S.B. Ota, Regional Director in Archaeological Survey of India, Central Region, Bhopal, was Director-in-Charge of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal in 2003-4 and 2013-14; recipient of “Young Scientist Award” , Indian Science Congress Association in 1987, awarded Charles Wallace Indian Trust Fellowship in 1995 and was a short-term visiting fellow by Japan Foundation in 2006

 

Chair: Professor R.C. Agrawal

 

Research for cultural remains in high altitude Ladakh prior to Buddhist remains in the valley around 10th century AD has received very limited attention by the archaeologists.  It was thought till recently that because of high altitude valleys with natural barriers, rugged terrain and adverse climatic conditions, the valley never attracted human to venture into this terrain before the advent of Buddhism in the area. However recent investigations have established beyond doubt that human did venture into this high altitude valley since terminal Pleistocene if not earlier. The present lecture throws light on such archaeological evidences that exists in the valley in bits and pieces and an attempt has been made to reconstruct the human adaptation strategies based on such evidences

 

"A Life Journey of Kathak" with Pt. Birju Maharaj,  renowned exponent, a living legend and doyen of Kathak who will be talking about his life journey and interact with the audience 

 

Moderator: Ms Sashwati Sen, noted Kathak dancer and disciple of Pt. Birju Maharaj  

 

 

 

Speakers: Professor Houra Yavari, Professor, Encyclopaedia Iranica,Columbia University; Dr. Khaterah Sheibani, Dept. of Language, Literature and Linguistics, York University, Toronto; Dr. Rakshanda Jalil, Writer, Critic and Literary Historian; and Professor G.J.V. Prasad, Centre for English, Sll & CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Moderator: Dr. Syed Akhtar Husain, President,  Institute of Indo-Persian Studies 

 

Panel Discussion of the International Conference on The Blind Owl: Hooting for 80 Years to be hosted by Institute of Indo Persian Studies and IIC-International Research Division

 

Speaker: Dr. Katja Müller,  researcher and research coordinator at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Specialized in visual anthropology and ethnographic museums, she is currently working on impacts of digital processes concerning archives from India

 

Chair: Dr. Malavika Karlekar

 

Museums have entered the digital age. We can inform us online about visiting hours and events, and can view (parts of) the collections and archives that have been digitized. Pertaining to ethnographic museums in Europe, which are often based on collections gathered in colonial times, digitizing implies possibilities of access to a heritage that is a shared one: it is part of the originating culture as well as the storing one. 

 

In 2012 Indian curators from the Museum of Voice in Gujarat, in cooperation with a German and a British museum, started a unique project of making use of digitized photograph collections. The photos, that were taken in India between 1920 and 1950 and hidden in the European institutions until recently, became now of a new quality as their digital surrogates could reach out beyond the cabinets. They formed the basis for new perspectives and encounters