Off Broadway - An Evening of Music from the Broadway Musicals
Concert presented by Aching Shaiza and Reuben Israel (voice)
Accompanied on the piano by Aching Shaiza, Kyoko Ito
The artists will presented songs from well-known Broadway musicals My Fair Lady; Annie Get Your Gun; Oh! Kay; Carousel; A Little Night Music; All That Jazz; An American in Paris; among others
Book Discussion Group
Contemporary Theatre of India: An Overview by Chaman Ahuja (New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2012)
Discussants:
Shri Rudraprasad Sengupta, Director, Nandikar; Dr Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, Director, The Company; and Prof. Tripurari Sharma, National School of Drama will discuss Contemporary Theatre of India: An Overview by Chaman Ahuja (New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2012)
Chair: Prof. Mohan Maharashi, Theatre Director
Is Indian Media in a Self-Destruct Mode?
Produced and directed by Satish Jacob who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Panelists: Sir Mark Tully; Ms. Seema Mustafa; Shri Jehangir Pocha; and Shri Pavan Varma
Third Cinema and Subversive Stardom: Selections From Sahni's Ouevre
Illustrated lecture by Tarini Sridhar who has completed her Masters in Film Studies from Columbia University's School of Arts
The talk will use eclectic examples from Balraj Sahni's films to trace his unique relationship to realism, melodrama and issues of feminist assertion
Chair: Ms madhu Jain
To Mark the 90th Birthday of Sarvepalli Gopal
Imperialists, Nationalists, Democrats: The Collected Essays of Sarvepalli Gopal
Discussion around the collected essays edited by Srinath Raghavan
Panelists: Shri Shivshankar Menon; Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta; and Dr. Srinath Raghavan
Chair: Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
A Picture of You (75 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Director: Ajay Noronha who will introduce the film
A cinematographer's journey to piece together an image of his father who passed away when he was six. Growing up with one framed photograph on the wall and little else, Ajay Noronha sifts through memories, anecdotes and silences to come closer to the person he hardly knew. A Picture of You is a difficult inquiry into the need to complete the picture of one's own self
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Integrating Ayurveda with Modern Medicine
Discussion around the Second Status Report on Indian Medicine and Folk Healing written by Shailaja Chandra, former Secretary Ayush, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Speaker: Dr. Naresh Trehan, Chairman & Managing Director, Medanta - The Medicity on "Why Integration"
Followed by Speciality-wise experiences with Complementary and Adjuvant use of Ayurveda
Presentations by Dr. Tejinder Kataria, Chair, Radiation Oncology, Medanta; Dr. Ali Zamir Khan, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Medanta; Dr. Geethakrishnan, Head, Dept. of Integrative Medicine, Medanta; and Dr. K. Muraleedharan, Medical Superintendent and Chief Physician, Kottaikal AVS Hospital & Research Centre
Smt Shailaja Chandra will present an overview and moderate the discussion
A Tribute to Sharan Rani Backliwal
Sharan Rani - The Divine Sarod Player (29 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Radhika Backliwal Narain
Introduction: Shi Ashok Chakradhar, writer & poet
Thumri Bhav
Presented by Pt Birju Maharaj
Film on one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Breaking through the centuries old glass ceiling, Sharan Rani became the first Indian female instrumentalist of international repute. The film traces her iconic musical journey in conservative, pre-independence India
Bhakti Utsav 2013
Christian Chants
By the Ao Naga Choir
Carnatic Bhakti
By Nithyashree Mahadevan, Chennai
Gurbani
By Pt. Madhup Mudgal, Delhi
Bhakti Utsav 2013: 20th and 21st April
Organised in collaboration with Seher
Mantrochharan
Presented by Panini Kanya Mahavidyalya, Varanasi
Shiv Bhajans
By Bhuvanesh Komkali, Dewas
Sufiana Qawwali
By Ustad Chand Afzal
