Release of the IIC Quarterly: Autumn 2024

Edited by Omita Goyal, Chief Editor IIC

To be released by Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC

Pioneers of Modern Renaissance of India

Speaker: Prof. Pradeep Apte, Distinguished Professor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune

Chair: Prof. Salil Misra, Faculty of History, School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi

Bose & Bose: Making of the INA

Speaker: Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian and author, Chancellor of Ashoka University

Discussant: Dr. Sanjeev Chopra, former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Chair: Amb. T.C. A. Raghavan, author and former Director General, Indian Council of World Affairs

Nationalism and Popular Cinema: Emotive Commitments, Transformations, Critiques and Alternative Imaginings

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Ira Bhaskar, film scholar and former Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Shri Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, writer and journalist

Poetry – Singing a Nation 

Readings from selected poems composed during the nationalist movement by leading Indian poets – Rabindranath Tagore; Kazi Nazrul Islam; C. Subramania Bharati; Vallathol Narayana Menon; Sarojini Naidu; Jaishankar Prasad; Iqbal; Maithilisharan Gupta; Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and others

Conceptualised by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Readings in the original languages by Sujatha Ramanan (Tamil); Ruma Ghosh (Bengali); Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan (Malayalam); Sunit Tandon (English); Priyanka Sharma, Anushakti & Mrityunjay Tripathi (Hindi); and Pradeep Tarkash (Urdu)

Moderator: Apoorvanand

 Tanashah

A solo dance drama based on the prison diaries of Bhagat Singh
Concept, choreography and performance: Navtej Singh Johar

Live Sound Design: Anirban Ghosh
Vocals: Madan Gopal Singh and Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy
Lighting Design: Anuj Chopra

Didida (60 min)

Contemporary dance presented by artists of MUT Dance Company, Korea

With Namyoung Lee, dancer, choreographer and director; Haein Lee, choreographer and dancer; and Siul Choi, choreographer and dancer

The dance explores mythological texts that contain archetypes and common memories of the collective unconscious of Koreans. It is a work that analyses and deconstructs the movement patterns of the mythical human being who stands on the ground and connects the heavens and earth, and who contains the vitality of the earth, and rearranges or deconstructs them in a contemporary sense.

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar

Accompanists: Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma (pakhawaj); Santosh & Aravindan Srinivas (tanpuras)

 Songs of Resistance, Songs of Hope

Presented by Sumangala Damodaran, singer and composer who has archived and documented the musical tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

Accompanists: Pritam Ghosal (sarod & composer); Ahsan Ali (sarangi); and Mark Aranha (guitar)

Chief Guest: Dr. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, the University of Manchester

Sufiana Qawwali

Presented by Ustad Chand Afzal Qadri, renowned artist

With Khalil Ahmed; Latafat Ali; Sazim; Asif; Rabbani Ahmed; Sheraz Ali; Jamal Husain; and Hasan Raza