Historic Planting: A Contextual Approach for Heritage Precincts in India

 

Speaker: Ms Nupur Prothi Khanna, historic landscape architect, founding principal of Beyond Built, Pvt. Ltd. 

 

By Shirshendu Mukherjee from Kolkata, ITC Sangeet Research Academy, disciple of Pt Ajoy Chakraborty

 

By Luigi Attademo, award-winning guitarist from Italy

 

Programme includes works by Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Paganini, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Giuliani and Legnani

 

 

Presenting young upcoming artists  – 

Vocal recitals by Dhirren Mohan and Tharun Krishna,  disciples of Dr. Vasanthi Krishna Rao

 

Violin recitals by Usha Ganesan, Vaishnavi Nathan, Gangotri S. Vignesh, Ashwini, Anjana, Kaveri, Sarveshwar, Chandna, Sidhesh, Kaveri and Akshaya, disciples of R. Sridhar

 

Accompanied by Vignesh J. on mridangam

 

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Speaker: Dr. Wafaa El Saadik, former Director General of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.  She is the author of numerous scholarly publications in German, English, and Arabic; most recently, she authored the first history of ancient Egypt in the Arabic language and her autobiography in German

 

The talk will deal with the mysteries of Ancient Egypt, the wonderland of the Pharaohs; have always held the world in respectfulness. The lecture provides a comprehensive history of this fascinating land from its earliest days to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. With focus on the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Museum contains the world's most extensive collection of pharaonic antiquities 
 

Film : Unlocking Pharaoh's Cellar – The Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Cherubs in the Mist (50 min; 2005; dvd; English)

A film by Naresh Bedi & Rajesh Bedi, Bedi Brothers

 

Made over two years, the film unravels the secretive life of this mysterious and little known Red Panda. Before this film was made, it was believed that these pandas were not found in India but only in China. But the pandas have survived in small pockets of Singalila National park and have been fighting a lonely battle for survival

 

Presentation of awards to young craftspersons – Pragati Batham, Maipuri, Uttar Pradesh for Tarkashi for metal wire work; Deepika Soni, Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh for traditional  brass ware; Samrat Fauzdar, Bankura, West Bengal for Ganjifa playing cards; Ramu Debnath, Sepahijala, Tripura for cane and bamboo basket ware; Tabassum  Afreen, Bidar, Karnataka for Bidri craft; and Bilquis Akhtar, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir for Ari embroidery

 

Chief Guest:  Shri Ashoke Chatterjee, Advisor, Crafts Council of India

 

Awards to be distributed by Ms Syeda S. Hameed

 

There will be a display of craft made by the awardees

 

 

Lead presentation:  Shri S.M.S. Chadha, former Indian Ambassador to Argentina

 

Speakers: Professor S.P. Ganguly, Professor, JNU ; Mr. Pablo Cesar, director of an Indo-Argentinian film on Victoria Ocampo; and others

 

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh, MP

 

The brilliant and beautiful Victoria Ocampo passed away in January 1979.  In India, she is known solely through the prism of Tagore.  And there is much misunderstanding about the relationship.  This remarkable lady defied the skewed norms of the macho Argentine society of her time to become an eminent literary figure in the West.  In her late 80’s, she was finally admitted to Argentina’s Academy of letters, the first woman in Latin America to breach that barrier.  While in her 20’s she read and wrote about Gandhi and Tagore and in time became a major influence on the life of Tagore, inspiring much of his poetry in the last seventeen years of his life. This year marks her 125th birth anniversary

 

Dance Festival: Samvaad - conversations from Indian Mythology

 

Parwathi Lakshmi Vaadam

 

Bharatanatyam  by Arupa Lahiri from Delhi, disciple of Guru Chitra Visweswaran  

Kuchipudi  by T Reddilakshmi from Delhi, disciple of Gurus Jayarama Rao and Vanashree Rao

 

Dance Festival:  Samvaad - conversations from Indian Mythology

Concept and Execution: Usha RK

 

Krishna Satyabhama Vivaada

 

Bharatanatyam by Sathyanarayana Raju  from Bangalore, disciple of   Late Guru Narmada

Kuchipudi  by  Ajay Kumar from Vijayawada, disciple of  Guru Kala Krishna  and Guru Sri Vedantam  Satyanarayana  Sarma