FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Salt, Robes and Blood: A Historical Code of Honor and Loyalty that Spread from Spain to China
Illustrated lecture by Stewart Gordon, Senior Research Scholar, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan and author of The Marathas (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Chair: Sunil Kumar, Professor, Dept. of History, University of Delhi
Everyone across North India, Central India and the Deccan knows the term “Namak Halal”, that is, to act loyally to one’s “salt”. And everyone has seen the presentation of a Kashmiri shawl to an honoured guest. Virtually no one realizes, however, that these two seemingly disparate events are the remnants of a vast system of loyalty and honor that allowed men to move across a huge swath of Asia and find employment as soldiers, clerics, administrators, philosophers, even ambassadors
Wilhelm von Pochhammer Memorial Lecture 2015 (CANCELLED)
CANCELLED
To be delivered by Smt Sujahta Singh, Foreign Secretary
Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo – German Societies in India
Jatakamala of Arya Shura
A talk by Shri A.N.D. Haksar, former Indian Ambassador, scholar and translator of several Sanskrit texts including the Jatakamala
Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra
Hindustani Vocal recital
By Jui Dhaigude Pande from Mumbai, disciple of Pandita Sheela Joshi and Smt Kishori Amonkar
Words and Images
An exhibition of illustrations by Sujata Singh, Suddhasattwa Basu and Mala Marwah
Preview on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 18:30
This exhibition brings together three artists showcasing illustration art – published and unpublished, created over the last three decades. The body of work on view highlights the scope and range of illustrations as they interact, illumine and work in tandem with a piece of written text
Flute Recital
By Pt. Nityanand Haldipur from Mumbai, disciple of Smt Annapurna Devi
Third Annual IAFAC Lecture: India and East Asia – Moving from the Margins to the Centre
Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and former Chairman, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB)
Chair: Shri Vijay Naik
The third annual lecture organised by IAFAC
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Indian Classical Music – Insight into History and Development with Special Reference to Carnatic Music Appreciating its salient features and the compositional forms
A lec-dem by Dr. Vageesh, a composer and former DDG, AIR , at present consultant with AIR
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE LECTURE
Future Clean Paradigms for Clean Environment
Speaker: Shri Virendra Singh Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
Chair: Prof D.P. Agrawal, former chairman, UPSC
Readings
By K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poet and Raul Zurita, Chilean poet