INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Conservation of Monuments in Uttarakhand
Speaker: Dr. Syed Jamal Hasan, Director, Explorations, Archaeological Survey of India
Chair: Dr. R.C. Agrawal
Bharatanatyam Recital
By Navia Natarajan from Bangalore, disciple of Smt Padmini Ramachandran and Guru A Lakshman
Art Matters XXVI
An evening with Ashis Nandy in conversation with Sir Mark Tully, Dr. Vandana Shiva and Prof. Gopal Guru
Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpayee
In Memory of Sahir Ludhianvi and Fayyaz Hashmi - prolific lyricists and poets
Pran Nevile pays tribute to the eminent lyricists and poets for their outstanding contribution to Indian popular music followed by a concert by Simrat Chhabra
The Eco-musicology of Humans, Animals, Spirits, and Sounds in the Brazilian Amazon
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Seeger is a distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology, Emeritus, at UCLA and Director Emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution, where he is currently a Research Associate
Chair: Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri
Dr. Seeger will describe the role of music in communications between humans, animals, and spirits in the Brazilian Amazon and discuss the challenges those idea pose for the emerging field of eco-musicology. His presentation is based on decades of research in Brazil and will be illustrated with photographs and videos.
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Light of the World – Nur Jahan in Legend and History
Speaker: Dr. Ruby Lal, Dept. of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta USA
Chair: Ms Namita Gokhale (tbc)
The written and visual sources for Nur Jahan’s sovereignty, life and times, are opulent. Foremost among the Persian records is the memoir of her husband – Emperor, the Jahangirnama, in which she merges in unprecedented terms: sensitive consort, skilled politician, aesthetic woman. This lecture brings together the ‘facts’ of the historical record with the legends of the public imagination in order to capture Nur’s life in a more rounded fashion
Sulh-e-Kul (Peace to All)
(49 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Zorawar Shukla
Followed by a discussion
Sulh-e-Kul investigates the allure of the most important Muslim site of pilgrimage in South Asia, Ajmer’s Dargah Sharif. The shrine is the tomb of the venerated Sufi Saint, Kwajha Gharib Nawaz (Patron of the Poor). For 800 years, it has been a place where all types of people, regardless of religion, caste or colour, have gathered to ask for wishes to be granted
The Sacred Tree
An exhibition of mixed media works
By Sarla Chandra from Delhi
Opening on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 16:30
Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience: Britain and India
Speaker : Dr. Chandrika Kaul, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews, Scotland and author of the book of the same name published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014)
Chair :Mr. Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati
The lecture will focus on the media environment of empire as a conceptual tool to investigate its political and cultural role in shaping the imperial experience
The lecture will focus on the media environment of empire as a conceptual tool to investigate its political and cultural role in shaping the imperial experience
THE OTHER DIMENSION
Yoga: An Ancient Vision of Life (60 min; 2014; dvd)
Directed by Benoy K. Behl
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the Director