Beyond Barbed Wires: Discussing the Deoli Experience
Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn (35 min; dvd; English)
Directed by Rafeeq Ellias who will introduce the film
A Knock at Midnight - More than 50 years ago the lives of thousands of Chinese living in India changed when they were taken from their homes in the Darjeeling and Assam areas to an internment camp in Deoli, Rajasthan. The film explores in gripping vignettes how some ex-internees have lived with the experience
The Deoliwallahs – The Last Generation of Survivors of the Chinese Internment Camp in Deoli
Panelists: Michael Cheng was six years old when he was interned. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his family; Joy Ma is a writer and attended Delhi University. Born in Deoli, she is working on a book about her family’s journey in India; Yin Marsh was 13 when she went to Deoli. She is the author of Doing Time with Nehru; and Steven Wan who was a teenager when he was interned with his family. He lives in Toronto, Canada
Chair: Dilip D’Souza, Mumbai-based writer and journalist
In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
Speaker: Dr. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Director and Professor in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, who will speak on her new book published by Primus Books
Discussant: Ms Gayatri Sinha, art critic and curator
Chair: Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati
Fun and Frolics
In his lifetime, Rabindranath Tagore penned some rare ‘nonsense’ rhymes numbering about 300, in seven slim books. These verses have seldom been known outside Bengal and never rendered through performing arts: even in Bengal.
Shri Utpal K Banerjee has rendered them into rhymed English verses, which have now been published by the Sahitya Akademi in four volumes under the generic title: Rainbow Rhymes of Tagore. A selection out of these English verses will be visualised – in innovative classical forms by the following well-known choreographer-dancers
Purva Dhanasree in Vilasini Natyam; Kavita Dwivedi in Odissi; Pratibha Prahlad in Bharatanatyam; and Saswati Sen in Kathak
Maya in India
An exhibition of photographs on the archaeological sites of Mayan culture in Guatemala. Stunning and impressive views of the country and of the Mayan people
Photographs from the Ministry of Culture, Guatemala
Revisiting Cultural Resistance
Speakers: Romila Thapar ; K. Satchidanandan and Shyam B. Menon
Chair: Githa Hariharan
The discussion will be accompanied by a presentation of the new sites of the Indian Writers’ Forum,www.indianculturalforum.in and www.guftugu.in, the e-journal of arts and literature, Guftugu.
Chair: Githa Hariharan
The discussion will be accompanied by a presentation of the new sites of the Indian Writers’ Forum,www.indianculturalforum.
CSR Practises and Release of CSR Primer
A discussion
27TH PADMAPANI LECTURE
Erstwhile Nalanda
Speaker: Dr. Lokesh Chandra, President, ICCR
Speaker: Dr. Lokesh Chandra, President, ICCR
Frontiers of History
Imagining History and the Future: Through Cinema, Literature and Architecture
Speaker: Snehanshu Mukherjee, Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Along with teaching and practicing architecture, he has remained a keen observer of the performing arts
Chair: Shohini Ghosh, Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia
This presentation looks at how architecture helps to give physical shape and add the dimension of time convincingly to written works of fiction as depicted in cinema by exploring specific scenes from classic films such as Ray’s Aparajito, Charulata and Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood amongst others
Maati Maa: The Festival of the Living Soul
The programmes include discussions, film by Tadpole Artists Collective; theatre by Space Theatre Ensemble (Goa); concert by Gede Robi Supriyanto, Indonesian rock musician, activist, writer and farmer; and songs by Vidya Rao and Tenzin Choegyal, Tibetan Australian musician
E.P. and Other Stories
Photographs by Karam Puri
Inauguration on Thursday, 1st October 2015 at 18:30
E.P. - Extended Play is a body of work six years in the making. It invites the viewer to a rare glimpse of the homes of former Nawabs and Maharajahs across the subcontinent. The Other Stories include a visual journey of the quiet decay of Calcutta through the ages
Inauguration on Thursday, 1st October 2015 at 18:30
E.P. - Extended Play is a body of work six years in the making. It invites the viewer to a rare glimpse of the homes of former Nawabs and Maharajahs across the subcontinent. The Other Stories include a visual journey of the quiet decay of Calcutta through the ages