Panelists: Nandita Bhavnani on Minorities, Property and Displacement: The Sindhi Hindu Experience of Partition

Rita Kothari on Partition in the Western Regions, India

Tarun K. Saint on Some Observations on the Representation of Trauma in Selected Writings About the Sindhi Experience of Partition

Priya Kumar on Home and Diasporic Consciousness in Qurratulain Hyder’s “Sita Betrayed and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography

Rakshanda Jalil on Karachi: Beyond Lies the Sea

Part of the seminar organised by The Department of English, University of Delhi – UGC/DSA III Seminar

Centre for Studies in Violence, Memory and Trauma

Health Culture as Continuity

Speaker: Smt Ritu Priya Mehrotra, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Medicine, JNU

 

The Plunder of India's Past

Speaker: Dr. Kirit Mankodi, author of The Queen’s Stepwell at Patan who is associated with a Project for Indian Cultural Studies founded by Franco-Indian Pharmaceuticals, Private, Ltd., Mumbai 

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

The lecture will consider the loss of India's sculptural heritage through the illegal export of antiquities. This will be done with the help of visuals from such monuments as Atru, Nagda, Bharhut, Patan and others. Some cases where repatriation of smuggled sculptures was possible will also be mentioned

 

Speaker: Smt Chitrita Banerji, well known food writer who has written extensively on Bengali cuisine

 

Chair: Professor Pushpesh Pant

 

The talk  examines how food permeates Bengali consciousness and makes its presence felt in literature, songs ,  idiom, religious and secular rituals

 

 

On a Express Highway (30 mins; dvd; 2003; English)

Directed by Reena Mohan

 

The film traces the journey of a 33-year old woman who gave up the material world for the austere life of a Jain Sadhvi 

 

Autumn in the Himalayas (56 min; dvd; 2008; English)

Directed by Malgorzata Skiba

 

The film brings to light the story of a group of elderly Buddhist nuns from Ladakh, the last generation of unordained and uneducated women in robes who lead isolated lives as domestic help and construction workers.  Neglected by religious and social systems for centuries, the new Nyerma Nunnery is their last call for dignity and enhancement and purification of their religious status

Speakers: Seema Kohli, eminent artist; Chitra Mudgal, MP, poet  and journalist and others

 

Shri Arun Shourie; Shri Bharat Gupta; and Shri Rajiv Vora will discuss, Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography by Arvind Sharma (Gurgaon: Hachette, 2013) 

 

 Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson,  IIC-Asia Project

 

Introduction: Ms Renana Jhabvala followed by a short film interview with Ruth Jhabvala

 

Readings from Ruth Jhabvala’s work by Averee Chaurey and Minoti Chatterjee

Introduction to Ruth Jhabvala’s fiction writing by Smt Aruna Chakravarty

 

An Interpretation of the last two works – My Nine Lives and Love Song for India

Speaker: Shri Ramesh Chandra Shah, well-known Hindi writer

 

Gesture, Voice, and Ethics in Hindustani Music

Presentation by Matt Rahaim, Assistant Professor of Music, Religious Studies, and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota, USA.  His book Musicking Bodies (2012) focuses on the transmission of bodily disciplines in khayal lineages, and especially the gestural performance of melody   

 

This talk will first demonstrate a few cases of the inheritance of gestural dispositions in teaching lineages, and then propose a new way to think about the interwoven traditions of embodied melody, aesthetics, and ethics that link generations of teachers and students