Presented by Keystone State Boychoir, Pennsylvania USA

Music Director: Joseph P. Fitzmartin

The choir founded in 2001 consists of more than 150 young men between the ages of eight and 18 who sing a repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. The Boychoir is counted among the finest, most successful community - based boychoir choral programmes in the USA

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