Love: The Sufi Foundation for Bliss
A lecture by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Introduction: Sadia Dehlvi
A world renowned teacher of the Sufi path, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani serves as a guide and teacher to millions around the world. He has spent his life spreading the teachings of peace, tolerance, respect and love; that are the defining principles of Islamic spirituality
Concert
Presented by Keystone State Boychoir, Pennsylvania USA
Music Director: Joseph P. Fitzmartin
The choir founded in 2001 consists of more than 150 young men between the ages of eight and 18 who sing a repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. The Boychoir is counted among the finest, most successful community - based boychoir choral programmes in the USA
THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES
Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
Music for A Goddess: Dalit Devidasis of the Deccan(72 min; 2007; dvd; English & with subtitles)
directors: Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Jairazbhoy
The film will be introduced by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Screening will be followerd by a discussion
Part of a continuing applied ethnomusicology project,this film explores the sacred the sacred music, dance and rituals of the devidasis and devidasas, woman and man dedicated to the goddess Renuka/yellamma of the Deccan. Narrated in the fictive viose of the Goddness and her son,Parasurama
(Collaboration: Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of indian Studies)
Discusssion on EU, Russia Competition for the Soviet Legacy
Panelists: Prof. Hari Vasudevan, IFPS and Department of History, Calcutta University who is a Russia/CIS specialist; Shri Nandan Unnikrishnan, Observer Research Foundation and leading commentator on CIS affairs; Shri Sudhir Devare, former Director General, ICWA and former Ambassador to the Ukraine; and Shri Pramit Palchaudhury, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Hindustan Times
Chair: Dr. Madhavan Palat, Nehru Memorial Fund and Russia specialist
Discussion on EU, Russia Competition for the Soviet Legacy
Discussion on EU, Russia Competition for the Soviet Legacy
World Heritage Monuments in India
An exhibition of photographs from the collection of Archaeological Survey of India
Inauguration on 9th December 2013 at 6:30 pm
DELHI - CAPTURING WOMEN'S LIVES AND CHANGE IN A CITY IN TRANSITION
Sharing the experiences of Amina Kidwai, Mohini Bahl and Asha Sheth who have been friends for over seventy years. Their friendship that was first initiated by the contact between their political families before Partition and in the 1950s and 1960s, the bond strengthened in the then new New Delhi. They will share memories of the subsequent decades, of lives which have quite naturally diverged, its vicissitudes, laughter, and an abiding commitment to a secular nation which continues to affirm their lives and friendship
Book Discussion Group
Prof. Kesavan Veluthat, Dept of History, University of Delhi; Prof. Najavf Haider; and Dr. Kumkum Roy, Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru university will discuss The ast Before Us: Historical Traditions in Early North India by Romila Thapar (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2013)
Char: Prof. Uday Kumar, Dept. of English, University of Delhi