My Favourite Urdu Poems

With Leeladhar Mandloi; Om Nischal; Giridhar Rathi; and Asad Zaidi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

“Because it’s There”
Centenary of the historic 1924 British Everest Expedition and the intriguing mystery of the disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine

Illustrated lecture by Brig. Ashok Abbey (retd.), passionate skier-mountaineer who has climbed extensively, for over 43 years in the Karakoram, Great Himalaya, and adjoining mountain ranges, including overseas

Guest of Honour: Shri N.N. Vohra, former President, Indian Mountaineering Foundation and Life Trustee, IIC

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Moderator and Host: Shri Sudhir Sahi, former Editor of “Indian Mountaineer”, former Honorary Secretary, Indian Mountaineering Foundation, and former Delhi Secretary of the Himalayan Club

A fascinating historical perspective of the pioneering attempts of 1921, 1922, and the 1924 British Everest Expeditions, the mystery of the disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and the tantalizing question as to whether they were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
 

A group show – the artists in this show present a variety of different works and media in their diverse practices. From journalistic reportage, to analogue experiments in the darkroom, to investigating archival material, to pedagogic presentations of form, to re-looking at image practices within the lens of contemporary art.

Artists: Aditya Pande, Avani Tanya, Dhruv Malhotra, Hemant Sareen, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Tappeser), Ishan Tankha, Kana Kitaoka, Kapil Das, Kaushik Ramaswamy, Pallavi Arora, Rahul Noble Singh, Sarnath Banerjee, Shirley Bhatnagar, Shoili Kanungo, Shyamant Behal, Srinivas Kuruganti, Sudeep Chaudhuri, Sukanya Ghosh, Uzma Mohsin

Inauguration on Thursday, 25 July 2024 at 18:30 with a Guitar recital by Shyamant Behal and the release of a set of photo zines by Ishan Tankha

 Latika Gupta will conduct a walkthrough of the exhibition and a conversation with the participating artists on Saturday, 27 July 2024 at 16:30 hrs in the Art Gallery

With Songmi Han, co-author with Casey Lartigue of Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter’s Search for Her Mother & Herself; Casey Lartigue Jr., advocate and activist based in South Korea where he is co-founder and Chairman, Freedom Speakers International; Eunkoo Lee, expert and advocate for North Korean Human Rights and co-founder and Chairperson, Freedom Speakers International; and Chanyang Ju, Freedom Speakers International

The two speakers, Songmi Han and Chanyang Ju will discuss living in North Korea and their lives there. The story of survival, resilience, and the pursuit of freedom against all odds. The evening will also include a special musical performance by Ju on the traditional Korean flute

(Collaboration: Korean Cultural Centre India)
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Dr Kaustuv Kanti Ganguli from UAE, disciple of Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty
 

Anemone Morning and other poems
By Gopal Lahiri (PENPRINTS Publications: 2024)

Discussants: Dr. Payal Nagpal, Professor, Dept. of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi; Shri Mohammad Jamshed, author, poet and former Member, Central Administrative Tribunal; Ms Satbir Chadha, novelist and poet; and Shri Gopal Lahiri, poet, Editor, critic, translator and author of the book

Chair: Prof. Malashri Lal, author and Convener, English Board, Sahitya Akademi

Leading lady of Indian cinema, Sharmila Tagore
In conversation with Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)

An exhibition of prints, paintings, and sculptures
By Arpan Sadhukhan from Kolkata

Inauguration by Ms. Uma Nair, well-known art critic and curator on Tuesday, 23 July 2024 at 18:30

(Collaboration: Purushottam Public Trust)
 

Speaker: Amb. Ruchira Kamboj, Former Permanent Representative/Ambassador of India to the United Nations, New York

Chair: Amb. Syed Akbaruddin, Dean, Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad and former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
 

Speakers: Kavita Bundelkhandi, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Khabar Lahariya and the first Dalit member of the Editor’s Guild of India who is a non-conformist of many parts who stumbled into motherhood; Pooja Pande, writer, author and editor, TED speaker and co-CEO, Chambal Media who has deconstructed the institution of motherhood in India in her book Momspeak; and Vandana Sharma, practicing advocate who qualifies as a mother and advocate at about the same time 

Chair: Richa Jha, children’s author and the publisher of Pickle Yolk Books

In literature, films, performative spaces, popular media and in our everyday lives, we now have portrayals and real-life role models of mothers who do not shy away from putting themselves first, even at the cost of being labelled as ‘bad’ mothers. By living on their own terms, or by not making motherhood the focus of their existence, they challenge the conventional views that have long since reduced women to the all-loving, all-sacrificing and rule-bound gendered identity and role.

The conversation will explore how mothers today are breaking the classic mothering moulds