Release of the book edited by Sumangala Damodaran (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2024)

The book will be released by Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Followed by a discussion between Prof. Partho Datta, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Tanuka Kothiyal, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi; and Dr. Irfan Zuberi, National Cultural Audiovisual Archives, IGNCA

This book traces circuits of interaction between Africa and Asia as revealed through music. It is the outcome of a colloquium that the IIC convened in collaboration with ‘Recentring AfroAsia: Musical and Human Migrations, 700-1500 AD’, an international research project involving universities in South Africa, Tanzania and India. Participants in the project were in conversation with scholars and practitioners in related fields on the different ways that music can trace routes through our overlapping histories, and how such scholarship and performative interactions prise open a number of orthodoxies in our understanding of musical systems

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)

Life, Death and the Ashtavakra Gita
By Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta (Grin Media Pvt. Ltd.: 2024)

Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India

Discussants: Dr. Bibek Debroy, economist, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and co-author of the book; and Dr. Hindol Sengupta, historian, academic, journalist, Professor of International Relations, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and co-author of the book

Moderator: Shri Rishi Suri, Co-Founder, Grin Publication

Coordinated by Smt Rani Khanam, well-known Kathak exponent, choreographer and disability management specialist

Chief Guest: Dr. Arshiya Sethi, independent scholar

Presentations by Sharbari Banerjee, art educator and musicologist; Mrinalini Sinha, Special Educator; and Rani Khanam

Moderator: Jayanti Ranganathan, Executive Editor, Hindustan and writer

The seminar will begin with a live demonstration and lecture-demonstration by artists with and without disabilities

(Collaboration: AAMAD Dance Centre)

Seminar on Bat-tala and Other Print Making Practices: From Re-Discovery to Revival

Panelists: Shukla Sawant, artist and academic; Yusuf, senior artist; and Dr. Tariq Allana, Associate Director, Art Heritage

Moderator: Dilpreet Bhullar, Editor and Researcher, TAKE on Art

Print Making Workshop

Monotype Printmaking

Conducted by Priyanshu Chaurasia and Gaurang Garg

A two-day special Workshop on printmaking conducted by renowned artists. The Workshop will be held from 11:00 to 16:00 hrs daily and is open to both children and adults. All art supplies will be provided

Kindly please register your participation using the link provided below:
Printmaking workshop link: https://forms.gle/8XB7h6rKbm4qRuu19

Presenting works by emerging artists - Anu Gupta; Priyoum Talukdar; Priyanka Batra; Nitksha Dawar; Subhashish Dutta; 
Beenu Bhatia; Rajesh Deb; Kumara Swamy; Tandra Bhadra; Priyanshu Chaurasia; Prachi Sahasrabhude; Sushma Yadav; Sachin Nimbackar; Raymond Pereira; Rahul Dhiman; Jyotirmoy Dalapati; Jagadeesh Tammineni; Chandan Bez; Chandrashekhar Waghmare; Swapnesh Vaigankar; Sonal Varshney; K. S. Sarath; Rajesh Singh; Padma Karmakar;  Nidhi Mishra; Naveen Tungana; Khomdram Bonny; Attri Chetan; Anil Ijeri; Dipin Chandran; Satyaranjan Das; Dushyant Patel; Gaurang; Koustav Nag; Sonam Chaprana; Preeti; and Harish Lal Arya

Inauguration on Tuesday, 17 September 2024 at 17:30

Chief Guest: Uma Jain. Dhoomimal Gallery

Guest of Honour: Shobha Broota, eminent artist

Curated by Ina Puri

For artists in general and printmakers in particular, the Bat-tala school has been, perennially, of great interest, inspiring several art practitioners down the decades albeit in many ways. Literally meaning under the Banyan tree, artists of Chitpore, initially worked under the ubiquitous Bat-tala making the work they produced so popular that soon the newly established school went by the sobriquet Bat-tala. The Bat-tala tradition spawned art and illustrations spanning a range of subjects from mythology and religious themes to the satirical, commenting on contemporary social life of the time. 

Two parallel exhibitions will be held in both art galleries of the Centre presenting the work of master artists; senior artists; and emerging artists. Organised in collaboration with Art Magnum 

The Tradition of Bat-tala & Other Practices by the Printmakers
Presenting works by master artists – Paramjit Singh; Akbar Padamsee; Bhupen Khakkar; Arpita Singh; Jatin Das; Anjolie Ela Menon; Rameshwar Broota; Vasundhara Broota;  Manu Parekh; Madhvi Parekh; Shobha Broota; Sakti Burman; Ved Nayar; Anupam Sood; Jyoti Bhatt; Jogen Chowdhury; P. D. Dhumal; R. B. Bhaskaran; Jaikishan Agarwal; Arpana Caur;  Jeram Patel; Laxman Goud; Himmat Shah; Niren Sengupta; G.M. Sheikh; Lalu P. Shaw; Paramjeet Dogra; Somnath Hore; K. G. Subramanyan; Sanat Kar; Shanti Dave; Rini Dhumal; V.R. Patel; Haren Das; Prem Singh; Manjit Bawa;  Maite Delteil; and Piraji Sagara

Works by senior artists - Dattatraya Apte; Kavita Nayar; Sushanta Guha; Anandamoy Banerji; Kanchan Chander; Bula Bhattacharya; Kishor Chakraborty; Santosh Verma; Hemavathy Guha; Gayatri Apte; G. R. Iranna; Pooja Iranna;  V. Nagdas; Pratul Dash; Yusuf; Debashish Mukherjee; Prasanta Kalita; Amitava Das; Veer Munshi; Sidharth; R. M. Palaniappan; Durga Kainthola; Rajan Fulari; Birendra Pani; Vijay Bagodi; Subroto Mandol; Sujay Mukherjee; Mini Radhakrishan; Srikanta Paul; Walter D. Souza; Avijit Roy; Savi Sawarkar; Ramesh Khanda; Ajit Seal; Shovin Bhattacharya; Sunrindra Mishra; Suddhasattwa Basu; Suranjan Basu; Asim Pal; Jayasri Burman; Waswo X. Waswo; and Sanjay Das

 Inauguration on Saturday, 14 September at 17:30 onwards

Chief Guest: Ashok Vajpeyi, poet and literary cultural critic

Guests of Honour: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Ms Anupam Sud and Jayasri Burman, eminent artists
 

Banaras

A journey into the Heart of the City (Penguin Random House India: 2024)

A discussion with Prof. Purushottam Aggarwal; Ms Vasanthi Raman; and Shri Vertul Singh

Moderator: Ms Milee Aishwarya

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Traditional Folk Songs from Bihar/Uttar Pradesh
Kajri and other Bhojpuri folk songs presented by Dr. Revati Sakalkar from Varanasi

Kajri is a folk song and dance presented by women from Uttar Pradesh and the adjacent regions during the rainy season. A Hindustani classical form, the lyrics of the songs often describe the longing of the maiden for her lover as the black monsoon cloud arrives in the summer skies

(Collaboration: NCZCC, Prayagraj, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India)
 

Conceptualised by Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Alzheimer’s Disease
Workshop and talk

From 10:00 to 13:00
Workshop on Recognizing and Responding to Common Acute Neurological Disorders 
The Workshop will include a discussion on how to improve mental health

Open to IIC members and staff members of IIC

At 16:00
Alzheimer’s Disease: Current Status and Management
Lead presentation by Dr. Achal Kumar Srivastava, MD, DM (Neurology), FRCP, Professor, Dept. of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

Discussant: Dr. Rajesh Sagar, Professor of Psychiatry, AIIMS 

Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Neurological disorders do set in with advancing age in certain people. Alzheimer’s disease being one such disorder, is a degenerative brain disorder that gradually worsens over time. It is the most common cause of dementia, of about 55 million people worldwide with dementia, 60% to 70% are estimated to have Alzheimer’s disease. It is associated with a gradual decline in memory, thinking, behaviour and social skills affecting a person’s ability to function. Medicines may improve or slow the progression of symptoms but do not cure the disease. How to diagnose, delay the onset of such conditions and the proper management will be included in the presentation