Power Within (45 min)
Intimate Theatre
Director: Dilip Shankar; Producer: Mrinalini Chawla; Lights: Mukesh Chaudhary; Actors: Gauri Saxena, Dilip Shankar 
A tentative woman shares her journey of realizing the power 'within her' through situations and relationships. She explores visualization as a way to navigate life! And practices her power of choice in her journey. Life triggering the 'power within' and the 'power within' translating into life.

(Collaboration: Centre for Creative Expressions)
 

A Repertoire of Delight — A Colourful Mix of Short Plays and Stories
(60 minutes; English/Hindi)
Director: Sujata Soni Bali
Artistes: Sunit Tandon, Charu Shankar & Sahiba Bali

Its Only Words brings you an entertaining mix of dramatic readings by renowned stage and screen artists, where stories sparkle with life and emotion. From rib-tickling humour and witty banter to gripping suspense and heartfelt moments, each short play and story offers a fresh mood and flavour. The carefully curated selection spans diverse genres brought alive through voice, expression and powerful performances. So, sit back and let the magic unfold! 

Gossips of Our Surrogate Story: Prose poems 
By Rajorshi Narayan Patranabis (Hawakaal Publisher, 2025)

Discussants: Sudeep Sen, Poet and Literary Editor; Shubha Dwivedi, Associate Professor, ARSD College, University of Delhi; Rajorshi Patranabis, Poet, Reviewer, Essayist & Author of the Book

Moderator: Kiriti Sengupta, Poet and Publisher

Mani Kaul and that thing called the actor
(96 minutes; English and Hindi; subtitles in English)
Directed by Mita Vashisht

The film takes a journey with a young actress and a young Dhrupad musician, into the landscape of an iconic film director's ideas of what acting in cinema is, or should be....
A profound insight into the deep engagement that film maker Mani Kaul had with the Natyashastra (the 2500-year-old treatise of the performing arts), and his practise of it, in crafting the actors' performance, in his cinema.
 

The discussion will explore Delhi’s layered histories—its water bodies, landscapes, and colonial transitions. It will examine how water, land, and power have shaped Delhi’s textured pasts. They will also help us rediscover Delhi—its terrains, its rivers, its people, and its memories.

Inaugural Remarks: Shri K.N.Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Panellists: Prof. Amar Farooqui, author, historian and former professor, DU; Mr Sohail Hashmi, historian and documentary film-maker; Mr Shubham Mishra, an urban planner trained at the International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (University of Twente) and the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. 
Moderator: Dr Shashank Shekhar Sinha, historian, author and Publishing Director, Routledge (South Asia) Taylor & Francis Group

(Collaboration: @Crossroads)
 

Homeopathy: Through A Practitioner’s Eye
by Mohammad Qasim (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2025)

Discussants:  Prof. Krishna Kumar, Former Director NCERT; Dr Anita Sehgal, Consultant Eye Specialist; Shri Anil Nauriya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Dr Mohammad Qasim, Author of the book
Chair: Shri N. N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC
Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Editor Citizens First TV (CFTV)

Conceptualised in 2011 by Manjari Chaturvedi, Founder of The Qawwali Project
I Am A Qawwal, is an innovative ground breaking self-documentation initiative aimed at empowering Qawwals across India to represent themselves through photography to increase their visibility and create new livelihood opportunities.
“You don’t document us. We will document ourselves.”
The tag line for this project, reflects the pride and agency these artists feel in taking control over their own representation in history.

This is a part of The Qawwal Project, an initiative to archive and preserve the form of Qawwali and work towards the spiritual music associated with Sufism.

Inauguration on Friday, 31st October 2025 at 18:00 hrs.

(Collaboration: Ganga Jamuna Culture Foundation)
 

The seventh edition in the series on ‘Understanding Qawwali’ conceptualised by Manjari Chaturvedi. It is a symposium on the traditional artform of Qawwali.


At 18:30
Venue: Fountain Lawns
Qawwali Mehfil Traditions & Experiments - A curated evening performance

Saiyan Sajilay – Celebrating Basant & Krishna in Qawwali (60 minutes)
By Qawwal Danish Hussain Badayuni from Badaun & Sufi Kathak by Manjari Chaturvedi

Sawaal Jawaab - Mian Samat Bin Ibrahim And Gopal Nayak (15 minutes)
By Qawwal Sibtain Nizami & Qawwal Saqlain Nizami from Delhi
In memory of Qawwal Late Ustad Meraj Nizami of Qawwal Bachche Dilli Gharana

Qaul - Khanqahi Qawwali (60 minutes)
By Qawwals Hussaini Brothers from Hyderabad
Adil Hussain Khan Warsi
Fazil Hussain Khan Quadri
Kaamil Hussain Khan
In memory of Qawwal Late Ustad Ahsan Hussain Khan Bandanawazi

(Collaboration: Ganga Jamuna Culture Foundation)
 

hursday 30

Discussion  ■ C D Deshmukh Auditorium From 11:00 am

UN@80: Reflections and Visions of the Future

Speakers: Mr. Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs; Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN in New York; Gen. Satish Nambiar, former Force Commander and Head of Mission of UNPROFOR, the UN Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia; Dr. Shashi Tharoor, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Public Information; and youth representative

(Collaboration: The United Nations, India)

Outdoor on third floor with lift facilities for dinner for about 50-75 persons.

Time Slot: 7pm - 11pm

Tariff: Rs.5,160/-

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