Carnatic Music – Homage to Voleti Venkateswarulu
Vocal recital by V. Jyothi Sridevi from Andhra Pradesh, disciple of Voleti Venkateswarulu
FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
Amazon Expedition – II (Brazil)
Yualapitis Indians
(60 mins; 2005; dvd; English subtitles)
Produced for Brazilian TV
Second in the series of films on the Amazon, presented by journalist, Paula Saldanha and biologist, Roberto Werneck
An in-depth study on the life and culture of the indigenous Yualapitis Indians of the Upper Xingu
PRAYASI: CLASSICAL INDIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Concert
Pt. Ronu Majumdar (flute)
Pt. Salil Bhatt (mohan veena)
At 18:00
Concert
Jugalbandi by Pt. Rupak Kulkarni (flute) and Kaivalya Kumar (vocal)
Jugalbandi by Zahid Khan (rudra veena) and Nasir Desai (surbahar)
PRAYAS: CLASSICAL INDIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL 20 -21 MARCH 2015
Prayas: Classical Indian Music Festival 20 -21 March 2015
Concert
Jugalbandi by Ustad Saeed Zafar Khan (sitar) and Saraswati Rajagopalan (vichitra veena)
Jugalbandi on tabla by Ustad Akram Khan & Ustad Hashmat Ali Khan
One Beat – Celebrating Music of North East India
Presented by Dr. Kalyan Sharma and Rajiv Bhuyan; Tiameren; Jeremy Lalrempuia; Phuningding Kathar; and Topden Lepcha
Celebrating Legendary Poets: Kabir
Speakers: Dr. Narendra Mohan; and Shri Laxmi Shanker Bajpai
Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi
Urban Governance
Introductory Remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary & President, IC Centre for Governance
Keynote Speakers: Shri M Ramachandran, IAS (Retd), former Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; and Shri Balvinder Kumar, I.A.S, Vice Chairman Delhi Development Authority (DDA)
Chairman: Shri Syed S. Mahdi, former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia
27th Wilhelm von Pochhammer Memorial Lecture 2015
Towards Sustainable Green Energy Future
Speaker: Dr. Anil Kakodkar, INAE Satish Dhawan Chair of Engineering Eminence and former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India
Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Army and Nation: How India’s Founders Made its Army Safe for Democracy
Speaker: Prof. Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Chair, Department of Political Science, Yale University and author of the forthcoming book Army and Nation – The Military and Indian Democracy Since Independence (Permanent Black, 2015)
Chair: Dr. Srinath Raghavan
At Indian Independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited – conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups posed a threat to democracy. Steven Wilkinson draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed
Shrinking Space for Dissent? The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, civil servant, diplomat, former governor
Followed by a panel discussion
Panelists: Shubha Mudgal, classical singer; Nilanjana Roy, literary critic and columnist; and Ashok Malik, columnist and TV commentator
Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory
The lecture will be preceded by presentation of Chameli Devi Awards 2015