A retrospective exhibition on Jhupu Adhikari (1927-2013) - that covers his work from the earliest days and includes water colour portrait and woodcuts. Sketches and designs, advertisements and logos; work from the "˜clown series'; Rajasthan and Turkey; and final works drawn on an I-Pad

Preview on Thursday, 28th November 2013 at 18:30

As part of this exhibition there will be a discussion on Friday, 29th November 2013 at 18:30 in Lecture Room II

Discussion and Readings from "˜Jhupu - A Life Drawing'
Chief Guest: Shri Keshav Malik

Speakers: Ella Dutta; Kishore Singh; Monojit Lahiri; Abhijit Dutt

Readings from the book by Sheema Mookerjee; Sushmita Sengupta; Pialee Mukherjee; Miti Adhikari; Sara Adhikari; and Neel Adhikari

Moderator: Maya McManus

The Shy Girl from Madurai
An illustrated presentation on the iconic musician, M.S. Subbulakshmi

By Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan, playwright, theatre director and journalist who was vocal accompanist to M.S. Subbulakshmi for 17 years

Director: Sumantra Ghosal who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film explores Bharatanatyam through the art of Malavika Sarukkai. The film deliberates the valuable connections and departures that the artist makes from a hallowed and, often, unforgiving tradition. Today, even as she impresses her footprint on the world stage as a celebrated Bharatanatyam dancer, Malavika finds herself making increasingly personal choice about how she wishes to lead that life

Speaker: Suad Amiry, well-known Palestinian author who will speak about her new book of the same title

In this literary-historical tour-de-force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of a Palestinian family and through the, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in the other countries of the Middle-East. Through poetry and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape caught in the silent battle between remembering and forgetting

By Sherry Duggal

Sherry Duggal is a poet from Vancouver, Canada who is passionate about performance

Concert by young upcoming artists - Priya Parvathy, Ganga Bhagirathi and U Ashwin on veena; S. Vignesh, Vaishavi Nathan, Siddhesh and Gangothri on violin

Accompanied on the mridangam by students of Kumbakonam N. Padmanabhan

Carnatic and Hindustani Jugalbandhi - Vocal and Instrumental
Presented by Avinash Kumar and Sowmya Gurucaran (vocal); Sowmitra Thakur (sitar); Rajeeva Prasanna (flute); Mahavir Chandravat (tabla); Manohar Balatchindirane (mridangam)

Concert in honour of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru