9^th Prof. D.S. Kothari Memorial  Lecture

"Dr. D.S. Kothari: A Modern Rishi"

By Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

Chairperson, Asia Project, India International Centre

Meet the Author: Aman Sethi

Author of A Free Man (New Delhi: Random House, 2011), who will speak about his work followed by a discussion

Panelists: Dr. Awadhendra Sharan, Associate Fellow, CSDS; and Dr. Prabhu Mohapatra, Department of History, University of Delhi

Chair: Shri Hartosh Singh Bal, Open Magazine

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Prof Sukhdeo Thorat, Chairperson, ICSSR, and former Chairperson, UGC; Prof Dinesh Singh, Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi; and Dr Nitish Sengupta, will discuss Dr Karan Singh: The Portrait of a Statesman by Kishore Gandhi (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2012)

Chair: Shri Jagmohan, former Governor, Jammu & Kashmir

Memorial Meeting for

 Shri Natarajan ("˜Manna') Srinivasan
 (September 12, 1934 - March 10, 2012)

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

Re-looking at Tagore's Musical Compositions in his Plays
Presented by Smt Jayati Ghosh

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Tale of Two Cities: Chandernagore and Kolkata under French and English Rule

Speaker: Sumanta Banerjee, author of The Wicked City: Crime and Punishment in Calcutta (Orient Blackswan, 2009)

Concert
By the Kodály String Quartet from Hungary
Attila Falvay (first violin); Erika Tóth (second violin); János Fejérvári (viola); György Éder (violin-cello)

Founded in 1966 by students of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Quartet has made it its mission to authentically interpret the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, and to uphold his musical values and traditions. It also acknowledges inspiration from Zoltan Szekely, first violinist of the Hungarian String Quartet, with whom its members have studied. Besides having performed the major Hungarian composers as well as premières of contemporary Hungarian pieces, it has recorded entire string quartet cycles by Beethoven, Schubert and Haydn. The Quartet has performed in North and South America, in nearly all European countries, throughout the Far East, and once before in India. Among other honours, its recording of Mendelssohn and Bruch octets in 2007 was nominated by the BBC for the "˜Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year' Award.