The Textures of Loss
(61 min; 2013; HDV; English & with subtitles)
Directed by Pankaj Butalia who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
A film which explores the sense of loss individuals feel when they lose close members of their families to conflict in Kashmir. Women talk about the loss of husbands, brothers and sons and how the desire to live has gone from their lives since they lost their loved ones
A Glimpse Into Odissi Music, Dance and Monuments of Odisha: 22nd and 23rd March 2013
Exhibition, performances and seminar
Seminar: Odissi Music: A Distinct Form
Speakers: Prof. Ramahari Das; Guru Kirtan Narayan Padhi; Smt Shyamamani Devi; and Shri Chittaranjan Mallia
From 19:00 onwards in the Rose Garden
Odissi Vocal Concert
By Smt Shyamamani Devi and party
Odissi Recital
Presented by Art Vision, directed by Guru Ileana Citaristi
A Glimpse Into Odissi Music, Dance and Monuments of Odisha: 22nd and 23rd March 2013
Exhibition: Lesser Known Monuments of Odisha
An exhibition of photographs curated by Intach, Odisha Chapter
Inauguration at 10:00
On view in the Quadrangle Garden
Performance from 18:30 in the Rose garden
Inauguration
Odissi Vocal Concert
By Prof. Ramhari Das and party
Odissi Recital
Presented by Utkal University of Culture, directed by Guru Nabakishor Misra
The Wonders of Swat
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Luca Maria Olivieri, University of Bologna
Chair: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority
Italian archaeologists have been exploring Pakistan's magical Swat Valley for nearly 60 years. Dr. Luca M.Olivieri who is co-director of the Italian Archaeological Mission and runs the ACT (Archaeology, Community, Tourism) Field School, has worked in Swat since 1987. He will speak about the three ACT projects in Swat: the Buddhist sacred area at Amluk-dara; a Kushan urban site at Barikot; and a late-Bronze Age graveyard recently uncovered in Udegram. He will also give an overview of the restoration of the Jahanabad Buddha partially destroyed by the Taliban, of the Udegram mosque and of the Saidu Sharif I main stupa, as well as the reconstruction of the Swat Museum
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Shri Inder Malhotra, eminent journalist and author; Shri Salman Haider, former Foreign Secretary; and Prof. Mahendra P. Lama, Jawaharlal Nehru University will discuss India's Foreign Policy: Coping with the Changing World by Muchkund Dubey (Noida: Dorling Kindersley, 2013)
Chair: Shri K. Natwar Singh, former Minister for External Affairs
Chameli Devi Jain Award for 2012-13
Presentation of awards to Outstanding Woman Mediaperson
Followed by a panel discussion on
Freedom of Expression: Can We Get it Right?
Panelists: Shri Fali S. Nariman; Shri Shashi Tharoor; and Prof. Nivedita Menon
Moderator: Smt Sevanti Ninan
The Comintern Brahmin - The Untold Story of M.N. Roy (Le Brahmane du Komintern)
(128 min; 2006; DVCam; English subtitles)
A film by Vladimir Léon who will introduce the screening
Screening will be followed by a discussion
From Mexico to Russia, from Germany to India, director Vladimir Léon seeks out a revolutionary adventurer from Bengal - M.N. Roy. Founder of a Communist Party in Zapata's Mexico, leader of the Communist International (Comintern) in Soviet Russia alongside Lenin, an anti-Stalin militant and anti-Nazi in pre-war Germany, a politician and atheist philosopher in independent India, Roy personified the struggles of a century on three different continents. However, official history in these countries has preferred to erase his mark. Through direct and indirect accounts, Léon patiently reconstructs the chaotic existence of a free spirit; the film is as much an enquiry as it is a meditation on the obscure course of history
Categorizing Monuments, Defining Landscapes: The World Heritage site of Pattadakal in North Karnataka
Speaker: Himanshu Prabha Ray, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority
Chair: Shri Pravin Srivastava, Member-Secretary, NMA
The group of monuments at Pattadakal on the banks of the Malaprabha river in north Karnataka, were inscribed as a World heritage Site in 1987 on the grounds of it being "˜the high point of an eclectic art which, in the 7th and 8th centuries under the Chalukya dynasty, achieved a harmonious blend of architectural forms from northern and southern India'.
UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, to which India is a signatory, makes a distinction between cultural heritage and natural heritage. This presentation interrogates the viability of this distinction in the context of India and also examines the relationship between the monument and its cultural landscape. It shifts the focus from patronage of religious architecture by political dynasties such as that of the Chalukyas to understanding the monuments in their social context, which raises two significant issues: the first relates to the choice of the site. Why was Pattadakal chosen for the setting up of temples? What do we know of the archaeology of the site? The second theme is that of identity and the extent to which religious architecture defined the landscape ascribing it with sanctity and cultural identity. The larger objective is to initiate discussion on the extent to which "˜categories' defined in the early twentieth century continue to be in use. Perhaps it is time to analyze the theoretical frameworks that corroborate these categories.