INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

21 April 2014, 05:30 am
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Programme Type
Talks
Conservation of Monuments in Madhya Pradesh – Adopting Minimum Intervention Module
Illustrated lecture by Shri N. Tahir, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Bhopal

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

19 April 2014, 05:30 am
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Programme Type
Talks
From the Courtesan to the Heroine: The Female Voice in Hindi Film Songs
Illustrated lecture by Shikha Jhingan, Dept. of Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi who is a founder member of Media-storm, an independent women’s film making collective. Some of her documentary films include Health Matters, Living Through Performance, Prisoner of Gender and Born to Sing and has co-directed a twelve-part documentary series on Bombay cinema, The Power of the Image
  

HEALTHY MEDICINE

16 April 2014, 05:30 am
HEALTHY MEDICINE
Programme Type
Discussions
Vitamins – Do I need the ‘Multivit’ Supplements?
Keynote speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
 
Panelists: Dr. N.K. Arora, Executive Director, The INCLEN Trust International; and Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India 

FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH

16 April 2014, 05:30 am
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
 
The Art of Happiness (L’Arte della Felicita; Italy)
(84 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Alessandro Rak
 
Recipient of the Young Cinema Award, Venice Film Festival
 
The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness successfully presents a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray. Two brothers. Two continents. Two lives. One single soul. Under a gloomy sky, between apocalyptic premonitions in a Naples at its utmost decay, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives shocking news
 

Just One Life and Other Stories

15 April 2014, 05:30 am
Just One Life and Other Stories
Programme Type
Talks
Discussion around the new collection of short fiction work by Manju Kak (New Delhi: ImprintOne, 2014)
 
Speakers: Prof. Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Amitabha Bagchi, well-known writer; Smt Kaveree Bamzai, Editor, India Today
 

Vijaya-The Victorius – 90 Years On

15 April 2014, 05:30 am
Vijaya-The Victorius – 90 Years On
Programme Type
Cultural
A multimedia performance of traditional music, poetry and audiovisual screening to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Argentina and his extraordinary meeting with Victoria Ocampo
 
Directed by Prof. Ananda Gupta
Narrated by Prof. Gustavo Canzobre

Reading Contemporary Chinese Art

11 April 2014, 05:30 am
Reading Contemporary Chinese Art
Programme Type
Talks
Illustrated lecture by Prof. Suman Gupta, Professor of Literature and Cultural History, English Department, Faculty of Arts, The Open University, UK
 
Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi, Honorary Fellow & Vice-Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies