By Anindya Banerji from Kolkata, disciple of Shri Dhyanesh Khan, Shri Ashish Khan and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

Accompanied by Utpal Ghosh on the tabla

Dr. Rekha Dwivedi, author & editor

Chair: Prof. Sudarshan Sharma, poet and thinker

Hindi Film Music and its Association with Hindustani Ragas

An illustrated lecture by Partha Chatterjee, film maker and music buff

The inspiration for Hindi cinema was the nautanki and Parsi Theatre. Both forms were reliant on raga and folk based melodies to communicate with their respective audiences. These qualities carried over into the popular mainstream cinema

An interactive and demonstrative series

Films: Whose India - Who is an Indian? Is being Indian Synonymous with being Hindu?

Directed by Aziz Quraishi and Laxmana Dalmia

Produced by Doordarshan

Ayodhya, Flash point of Communal Riots: December 7, 1992

A true story of Prayag Lal who saved the lives of 12 Muslims

Scenes from plays: Aur Ek Sach and Belibaas

Director: Aziz Quraishi

By Indian and foreign participants at the Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival 2011

Originally written by Badal Sircar, translated by Ram Gopal Bajaj and Rati Bartholomew

Directed by Samkutty Pattomkary

Presented by artists of Wings Cultural Society

The play explores the protagonist's position situated at the juncture of achievement and failure

Rabindranath Tagore in Germany - The History and its Relevance for Today

The programme will also include Songs Composed by Gurudev in Germany

Presented by Jayati Ghosh, well-known exponent of Rabindrasangeet

Chair: Shri Satinder K. Lambah

Concluding remarks: Dr. Volker Bauer

Focus on the work of women poets of India and Pakistan - the feminine experience.  The presentations will include musical and terannum renditiions and dramatized recitations of works by noted poets like Amrita Pritam, Mahadevi Verma, Kishwar Naheed, Zehra Nigah, Parveen Shakir, Naseem Nakhat, Noorjahan Sarwat, Indira Varma and others  

Vocal artists - Shobhana Rao, Shaila Hattangadi and Nirmala Jaishankar

Dramatised presentation by Salima Raza

Music composed by Santosh Kumar

By Shayomita Dasgupta from Kolkata, disciple of the late Guru Kelucharam Mohapatra and Guru Ratikant Mohapatra

Accompanists: Pradeep Kumar Das (vocal); Eklavya Muduli (pakhawaj); Srinivas Satapathy (flute); and Sanjeev Kunda (violin)

A solo exhibition of paintings, graphics in Suiboku - Japanese ink on rice paper

By Yuriko Ando Lochan

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, MP and Mr. Hajime Hayashi, Minister & Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy

of Japan on Wednesday 2nd February at 18:30