Rabindra Sangeet
Saikat Mitra started off his career in music by performing songs originally sung by his father Shri Shyamal Mitra. He started singing in 1983 and surprised stalwarts like Dhananjoy Bhattacharya, Hemanta Mukherjee and Suprava Sarkar by demonstrating his singing talent. In 1984 he started singing playback for his father’s composition with Bangla movie Kenaram Becharam.
Saikat sang for Sound Wing, HMV (Now SaReGaMa) and now his own company Gold Disc. He has performed compositions of many great music directors including Salil Chowdhury, Hemanta Mukherjee, Bhupen Hazarika, Ajay Das, Anal Chatterjee etc. Saikat published many popular albums featuring adhunik Bangla songs as well as cover versions of old nostalgic numbers including Hemanta Shraddhanjali and Shyamal Shraddhanjali. Saikat continues as a successful singer composer of modern popular and Bengali film songs.

By Meenu Thakur from Delhi, disciple of Guru Jayarama Rao and Vanashree Rao

Film: Dagarvani (52 min; dvd; English)
Director: Renuka George
 
The filmmaker has known the Dagar Brothers since 1986 and shares her memories of the brothers and their family; and her own experience of making this film
 
Followed by
Dhrupad Recital
By Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar
Accompanied by Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on the pakhawaj

An exhibition of photographs and text
Conceptualised and curated by Dr. Uma Dasgupta
 
On display is a selection of photographs from the collection of Rabindra-Bhavana Archives of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. An extensive version of this exhibition with more photographs and curated texts are on permanent display at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Bhawan, Shimla
 
Inauguration on Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 18:30
 
Rabindra Sangeet by Shri Sudhir Chanda
 
Introduction by Prof. Andre Beteille, noted sociologist followed by
 
A talk on the exhibition by Dr. Uma Dasgupta  (in Lecture Room – II)                                                                                                                  
 

By Satyaki Sengupta from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Soumitra Lahiri

World Heritage Sites in India
Illustrated lecture by Shri Jahnwij Sharma, Director (Conservation), Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority 

Gaan Yogi: Pt. D.V. Paluskar
(140 min; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Anjali Kirtane who will introduce the film
 
A tribute to the memory of Pt. D.V. Paluskar who despite his short life established himself as an artist of high caliber and made a significant contribution to Hindustani classical music. The film is a quest for the creative personality of Pt. Paluskar, traveling across India, the filmmaker re-visits places closely associated with his life and interviews people who had known the musician personally
 

Golden Age of Classical Music (Sangeetache Suwarna Yug)
(70 min; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Anjali Kirtane who will introduce the film
 
A musical docudrama that covers a span of 100 years from 1850-1950 looking at different aspects of the golden age of music. The film begins with the old era of Dhrupad singing, how khayal evolved, the establishment of the different gharanas and the migration of North Indian gharanas to Maharashtra

Radio Window to the Universe
Speaker: Professor Jayaram N. Chengalur, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune
 
Chair: Professor T.R. Seshadiri, Dept. of Physics, University of Delhi
 
Radio Astronomy was the first of the new astronomies, and it continues to be an important tool for us to fully understand the processes that shape the universe that we observe today.  The talk will cover the current state of the art in Radio Astronomy, with special emphasis on the celestial phenomena that are best studied using radio telescopes. Most of the examples will be drawn from research done in India using the cutting edge facilities built by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
 
Chair: Prof. T.R. Seshadiri, Dept. of Physics, University of Delhi

Speakers: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary; Dr. George Mathew, Chairman, Institute of Social Science; and Smt Sudha Pillai, former Member-Secretary, Planning Commission