By Prof  Dennis B McGilvray, Professor Emiritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

 

A multilingual reading in Urdu, English and Hindi of personal letters written to/from Lucknow along with some contemporary newspaper reports and essays that provide glimpses of the lived experiences of the city since the ‘ghadar’ of 1857 to present times. The readings are accompanied by images of original manuscripts, letters, buildings and the people who wrote them

 

Presented by Saman Habib and Sanjay Muttoo

 

Architecture of Delhi: Modern to Contemporary

Illustrated lecture by Anupam Bansal and Malini Kochupillai

 

Chair: Itu Chaudhuri

 

Anupam Bansal and Malini Kochupillai are the authors of Delhi, Architectural Guide (DOM, 2013). Anupam Bansal is a practicing architect in the firm ABRD Architects. Malini Kochupillai is an architect and photographer who teaches at the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon

 

Pran Nevile pays tribute to K.L. Saigal, the Ghazal King 

 

followed by a Concert by Dr Gaurav Sood

An illustrated presentation by Dr. Mohammed Qasim, well known homoeopath

 

Chair: Dr. Anita Sehgal, Eye specialist

The exhibition examines the work of architect Gordon Sanderson, 1887-1915, who served as an officer of the colonial archaeological department from 1911 until his death in 1915. The exhibition highlights, through one, truncated, early twentieth-century life and work, the interconnected nature of biography, archaeology, art, architecture, authority and scholarship in the British Empire

 

The exhibition includes text panels and images drawn from colonial archives, private family records, and the extensive corpus of Sanderson’s architectural drawings composed in Britain, Egypt and India

 

Curator: Dr. Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University, UK

Designer: Siddhartha Chatterjee, seechange

 

Inauguration by Prof. Shahid Amin on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 18:30

Directed by Lalit Vachani who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

An Ordinary Election tells the extra-ordinary story of the Aam Aadmi Party’s debut election campaign in the constituency of R.K. Puram, Delhi. An intimate, ground-up perspective of the anxieties, ambitions, struggles, and intrigues from the electoral battleground itself