Documentary Film Appreciation Workshop
Conducted by Prof. Suresh Chabria; and Prof. Ajit Duara, eminent film scholar, script writer and teacher of film studies

Kindly please register participation at www.psbt.org

Speaker: Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Delhi; and author of Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (Permanent Black, 2010)

Chair: Shri A.N.D. Haksar, former Indian Ambassador and translator of Sanskrit classics

The talk revisits Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the celebrated 12th century Sanskrit classic, a saga of the kings of Kashmir that has traditionally been understood as political history. Among the themes covered in the talk are origins of Kashmir, the nagas or tutelary deities, snow and water motifs, Buddhism, ritual, and a deeply spiritual sacred geography

By Sharvari Jamenis from Pune, disciple of Smt Rohini Bhate

Accompanists: Nikhil Phatak (tabla);  Amir Khan (sarangi); Rohit Prasanna (flute); Mrunmayee Phatak (vocal); and Chinmay Kolhatkar (harmonium)

ABUNDANT HIMALAYA
Opening Address by His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje; Dr. Saamdu Chetri, Executive Director, Gross National Happiness Centre, Bhutan; and Dr. Vandana Shiva

Panel discussions on:
Himalaya: The Source of Life, The Fountain of Water
Himalaya: The Garden of Biodiversity

From 14:30
THE SACRED HIMALAYA
Film: The Fragile Himalaya
Installation and film by the Tadpole Artists Collective on the Uttarakhand disaster

From 16:00 - 17:30
The Sacred Feminine

Venue: Gandhi-King Plaza

At 18:00
SONGS OF THE HIMALAYA
Tibetan Buddhist Chants and Songs
By Ani Choying Drolma

Kashmiri Sufi Music
by Meer Sahib and group from Kashmir

Sacred Music
By Lama Tashi from Arunachal Pradesh

CANCELLED

Illustrated lecture by Shri Vasant Swarnkar, Delhi Circle, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Professor R.C. Agarwal

Vocal
By Himani Dalmia
Accompanists: Ustad Ghulam Sabri (sarangi); Ustad Nawab Ali (tabla)

Followed by
Sarangi Recital
By Ustad Murad Ali
Accompanied by Pt. Ram Kumar Misra on the tabla

Vocal
By Ustad Raza Ali Khan
Accompanists: Ustad Kamal Sabri (sarangi); Ustad Akram Khan (tabla)

Introduction by Smt Malti Gilani

Vocal
By Bhaveen Gossain
Accompanists: Ustad Ghulam Sabri (sarangi); Ustad Zameer Ahmed (harmonium); and Ustad Nawab Ali (tabla)

Followed by
Vocal
By Ustad Iqbal Ahmed
Accompanists: Ustad Kamal Sabri (sarangi); Ustad Karim Niazi (harmonium); and Ustad Akhtar Lateef Khan (tabla)

Illustrated lecture by Ms Sooni Taraporevala, scriptwriter and photographer who will speak about her latest body of work

Discussant: Dinyar Patel, Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University who has worked and researched extensively on the Parsi community

Madhyam Notes in Hindustani Classical Music
Illustrated lecture by Pt. Deepak Chatterjee, Rasikrang, senior vocal maestro of the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana

Pt. Chatterjee will speak and demonstrate about the application of both the madhyam notes in various evening ragas of Hindustani classical music