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

 

Translocal Governance of Heritage

 

Speaker: Shri Aman Nath, a historian by education.  He has co-written/authored fourteen illustrated books on art, history, architecture, corporate biography and photography,  two of which have won National Awards 

 

Chair : Dr. Ratish Nanda, Aga Khan Trust for Culture in India

 

The lecture discusses how restoring ruined architectures would mean transporting a space which belonged to a past, back to itself – but with several differences. This process of conservation provides a new and relevant context to a heritage that was nearly ruined. It brings to many Indian villages, which are cosmologically wiser, the fruits of liberal education and a translocal exposure. This mixture of times past and present, of the rural and the urban, irons out the time warp and puts people more smoothly through the Indian time machine 

 

A Book Release With A Difference – launching an educational/motivational initiative with under-privileged children 

 

“Hullo! Hullo! This is The Sun Calling!/ Namaskar! Namaskar! Mein Suraj Bol Raha Hoon!” by Rami Chhabra

Book Release by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan and release of Hindi translation by Rotarian Sudhir Mangla, Gov. Rotary Dist. 3011

 

Chief Guest:  Shri Jagmohan

Special Guest: Smt. Amila Singhvi

 

The programme includes felicitation of all who have contributed to make this initiative possible, a  5 minute play by Streebal Balak Bindu based on the book and the taking of the “I Am A Sunbeam/Main Hoon Ek Surya Kiron” pledge by several hundred children 

 

Shiv Nadar University - IIC Lecture Series

 

Following Gandhiji's advice to keep our windows open to the world, this lecture series probes the viability of India learning from experiences of other countries in some of the most pressing issues facing our policy makers

 

Series Coordinator: Professor Dipankar Gupta

 

Wednesday 18

TALK  ?  SEMINAR HALLS II & III, (KAMALADEVI COMPLEX) AT 18:30

 

Dimensions of Interaction between Rural and Urban India

Speaker: Dr. Pronob Sen, Country Director, International Growth Centre 

 

 

Monday  23

TALK  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I  AT 18:30

 

Opportunities and Challenges for India's Finance Diplomacy amidst Global Bipolar Disorder

Speaker : Dr. Rathin Roy, Director & Chief Executive, NIPFP 

 

Thursday  26

 TALK  ?  SEMINAR HALLS II & III, (KAMALADEVI COMPLEX) AT 18:30

 

New Approaches in Designing Health Systems

Speaker : Dr. Nachiket  Mor,  Director, RBI and Chair, CARE India Board

 

The series will be continued in December.  The dates are 3, 7,10 and 17 December 

 

IMAGINE: John Lennon would have been 75 this year...

An Illustrated talk by Dr. Punita Singh 

 

From 'nowhere man' to everywhere icon, John Lennon is revered the world over for his incredible contribution to rock music. Gone too soon, he would have been 75 on October 9 this year. The evening will be celebrated,  looking back at his life, sharing anecdotes, and listening to his music with and without the legendary band he co-founded—The Beatles

 

Punita  Singh is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi