JASHN-E REKHTA : CELEBRATING URDU
Jashn-e Rekhta : Celebrating Urdu
Jashn-e-Rekhta is a festival celebrating the spirit and exuberance the spirit and exuberance of Urdu language, literature and culture through representations from various genres including poetry, fiction, drama and other performing arts. It will showcase the pluralist nature of the Urdu ethos and explore Urdu’s lyrical beauty and unparalleled eloquence. Highlights of the festival include - Recitations, musical performances, mushaira, discussions and interactive sessions, dastangoi, theatre, book exhibition and calligraphy workshops. Organised in collaboration with Rekhta.org
The festival will be held in the Auditorium, Conference Room I, Multipurpose Hall, Fountains Lawns and Gandhi-King Plaza
Inauguration of the Festival
Followed by
Sufi Music
Presented by Rekha Bharadwaj
Jashn-e-Rekhta is a festival celebrating the spirit and exuberance the spirit and exuberance of Urdu language, literature and culture through representations from various genres including poetry, fiction, drama and other performing arts. It will showcase the pluralist nature of the Urdu ethos and explore Urdu’s lyrical beauty and unparalleled eloquence. Highlights of the festival include - Recitations, musical performances, mushaira, discussions and interactive sessions, dastangoi, theatre, book exhibition and calligraphy workshops. Organised in collaboration with Rekhta.org
The festival will be held in the Auditorium, Conference Room I, Multipurpose Hall, Fountains Lawns and Gandhi-King Plaza
Inauguration of the Festival
Followed by
Sufi Music
Presented by Rekha Bharadwaj
MEHFIL
With Agra gharana vocalist Janab Waseem Ahmed Khan (Khayal)
Initiated into ta'lim by his maternal grandfather Ustad Ata Hussain Khan, Janab Waseem Ahmed Khan has had the good fortune of learning with his father Ustad Naseem Ahmed Khan & uncle Ustad Shafi Ahmed Khan of the Agra gharana. In keeping with the rich repertoire of the gharana, he will present rarely heard ragas and bandish-es
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES
Humayun's Tomb Conservation: A Scientific Approach
Speaker: Shri Ratish Nanda, Project Director, Aga Khan Trust For Culture
Chair: Dr. Janhwij Sharma, Director, Conservation, Archaeological Survey of India
From traditional scientific knowledge in preparation of lime mortar to state of art use of laser scanners - Humayun's tomb has benefited from a host of scientific conservation practices
FRIDAY 13
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Dr. Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; Dr. Surajit Mitra, Director, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Shri Sunil Jain, Managing Editor, Financial Express will discuss Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda for Reform by Bibek Debroy (Gurgaon: Random House; 2014)
Chair: Dr. Subramanian Swamy
The Colour of the City
Acrylic on canvas – an exhibition of paintings
By Virendra Kumar from Delhi
Inauguration by Shri Ram V. Sutar on Tuesday, 10 March 2015 at 18:30
Pt. Amarnath Barsi: 9 and 10 March 2015
Vocal Recital
By Vidushi Kankana Bannerji
Rajasthani Folk Music
By Ustad Anwar Khan Manganiar and Group
Pt. Amarnath Barsi: 9 and 10 March 2015
Vocal Recital
By Vidushi Bindu Chawla
Qawwali
By Warsi Brothers and Group
"Look Spring is here!"
Stories and art, music and dance and everything else that makes Vasant special
Presented by Deepa Agarwal and Sunita Baveja
11TH IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: 3RD TO 5TH MARCH 2015
Screenings will be followed by discussions with directors present
Death and the Maiden (Israel/Germany; 30 min; 2014) Dir: Yael Lotem
Shortly after WWII, over 1000 paintings were found in a Cellar in southern France…
I Have Only One Language; It is Not Mine (India; 30 min; 2014) Dir: Mithu Sen
Originally an installation, explores the process the limitations of language and the possibility of dialogue outside it
11:45 – 13:30
The Last Adieu (India; 90 min; 2013) Dir: Shabnam Sukhdev
The personal quest of a filmmaker’s daughter to unravel the past and make a connection with her father, S. Sukhdev
14:30 – 16:00
Raah (India;19 min; 2014) Dir: Radhika Fatania
The director explores her own indecisiveness about her life and career
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker
Pava (India; 10 min; 2014) Dir: Vaishnavi Sundararajan
A young, budding sportsperson, her barber, and their casual chit-chat
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker
Fragments of Peace (Experimental; UK;16 min; 2014) Dir: Lin Li
Using interviews the film considers the questions of what constitutes peace and whether peace is attainable
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker
16:30 – 18:20
Chhatrabhang (Imageography Cine Art Film Poem; India; 84 min; 1975) Dir: Nina Sugati S R Shivdasani Rovshen
An unusual poetic docu-drama with a socio-eco-political analysis of hierarchy and caste relations in rural India
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker
18:30 – 20:30
Maine Dilli Nahin Dekha (Bangladesh/India; 19 min; 2014) Dir: Humaira Bilkis
The filmmaker discovers the soul of the city not in its museums, mausoleums and architecture but in her relationship with its people
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker
Self Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47km (China; 76 min; 2014) Dir: Zhang Mengqi
Through the act of making the film, she tries to build a bridge between the older generation and the children
IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: 3RD TO 5TH MARCH 2015
Screenings will be followed by discussions with directors present
Driving Test (Afghanistan/France; 25 min; 2011) Dir: Mahbooba Ibrahimi
A young woman struggles to get her driver’s license to join a company of taxi drivers where there are only men
April 21 (Animation; USA/Hong Kong; 4 min; 2014) Dir: Jessica Poon
An extended geographical metaphor that compares geometries and cubical shapes to anxiety
Doppelganger (Taiwan; 26 min; 2013) Dir: Hsieh Ting-hang
Dai-De is a young mortician who has been stealing gold teeth from his dead “customers
12:00 – 13:30
Beyond the Wave (Germany/Japan; 83 min; 2013) Dir: Kyoko Miyake
Having lived outside of Japan for more than a decade, Kyoko Miyake feels compelled to revisit Fukushima after the nuclear disaster
14:30 – 16:10
Journey (Hong Kong; 28 min; 2013) Dir: Wong Chin-Yan Doris
Dreaming is a luxury in Hong Kong, and Rachel and Ronald struggle between pursuing their dreams and facing reality
The Bag (Myanmar; 9 min; 2011) Dir: Thet Su Hlaing
Daw Nar Ku quietly creates a strikingly patterned traditional Lahu bag
Potter’s Song (Myanmar; 23 min; 2013) Dir: Hnin Ei Hlaing
Portrait of a community of potters in the town of Twante west of Yangon
Last Kiss (Myanmar; 22 min; 2014) Dir: Seng Mai Kinraw
Every day since civil war resumed between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Organisation, Jaing Chying has written and recited a poem
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Thet Su Hlaing, Yangon Film School
16:30 – 18:00
COMPILATION OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS - II
Noon Day Dispensary (India; 26 min; 2014) Dir: Priya Sen
Noon Day Dispensary produces the ?unsettlinggaze?
Lost in Home (China; 29 min; 2013) Dir: Tan Tan
The record of a 100 year old community through thousands of pictures, poetic plots and a live performance
Night Noon (India/USA ; 11 min; 2014) Dir: Shambhavi Kaul
Geology’s ‘thrust and fold’ becomes the unlikely habitat for two actors’ shadowy encounters
Let Go Aviary (Singapore; 3 min; 2004) Dir: Ang Sookoon
Solitary without solitude...
Fish Love (India; 12 min; 2014) Dir: Gayatri Kodikal
“I am the kind of fish who lives in sludge, the slimy undergrowth below this pond. I am madly in love with a fisherwoman, who visits the pond.”
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker