Music from the tribal North East of India

An illustrated lecture presented by Amb. Gautam Mukhopadhaya 
 
Amb. Gautam Mukhopadhaya is a former Indian Ambassador to Syria, Afghanistan and Myanmar. Unschooled in music, his taste in music as a listener evolved from old Hindi film and Western pop music, to progressive rock and jazz and later Hindustani classical and South Asian folk and devotional music in his early years, to include international or so-called 'world' music ranging from early European, Latin American, and increasingly in the course of his life and career, African, West Asian, South East and East Asian music, and contemporary world music. 
 

Walking out, Speaking up: Feminist Street Theatre in India
by Deepti Priya Mehrotra (Zubaan, 2025)

Discussants: Dr. Uma Chakravarti, Former Professor, Department of History, Delhi University ; Dr Lata Singh, Associate Professor,  Centre for Women’s Studies, JNU ; Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Political scientist & Author of the book.

Lok Yatra: A Folk Music Journey
 

Runki Goswami presents a musical journey rooted in the folk traditions of Assam and East India while also weaving together songs from multiple regions and languages, the performance celebrates the country’s rich folk heritage, offering a unified experience of India’s sonic diversity through an engaging performance.

Runki Goswami, a contemporary vocalist whose work bridges Indian folk and ghazal traditions, trained in Hindustani classical music from the Prayag tradition.

Accompanists: Virender Singh on tabla and rhythms; Saif Ali Khan on keyboard: Hemant Juyal on guitar; Yogesh Solanki on dholak and percussions.

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

Thursday 26 to 3 March

Exhibition ■Main Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex from 11:00 to 19:00

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH: The Golden Age of Hollywood

Curated by: Neville Tuli (Founder, Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.)

The exhibition will reveal the influential roots of World Cinema with a focus on the cinema of Mack Sennett, Maurice Tourneur, Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Buster Keaton, Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, Randolph Valentino, Erich von Stronheim, Josef Sternberg and others.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on 25 February at 18:00 hrs

The exhibition will remain open daily from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs

(Collaboration: Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.)

Trump’s Challenge to the Global Order
 

Speaker: Prof. Yan Xuetong, distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University and the Honorary President of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University (TUIIR). Former Secretary-General of the World Peace Forum (WPF), the first high-level international security forum initiated by a Chinese non-governmental institution.

Chair: Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Trump 1.0 shifted the globalization order during the post-Cold War to the present counter-globalization order, and his second term is accelerating this trend. Economically, this trend manifests as the fragmentation of global markets; politically, as the non-compliance with human rights norms; and in terms of security, as increasing military violation of sovereignty. Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are the regions with continuous military conflicts, while China-US competition will concentrate in East Asia but where is likely to remain relatively peaceful.

The Right to Dream: JP's life and legacy
 

Yogendra Yadav and Anand Kumar in conversation with Sujata Prasad and Ashutosh Bhardwaj.
This is the 21st Conversation in this Series

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)
 

Qawwali: The Call of Hearts In Love
 by Manjari Chaturvedi (Om Books International, 2025)

Discussants:  Saba Naqvi, Senior Journalist & Writer; Yousuf Saeed, Scholar and Filmmaker; Salil Mishra, Professor,Department of History, BML Munjal University; Dinesh Khanna, Photographer ;  Manjari Chaturvedi, Classical Dancer and Author of the book

Chair : Muzaffar Ali, Filmmaker and Director Jahan-e-Khusrau World Sufi Festival

Moderator : Pragya Tiwari, Writer and Cultural Consultant 

 

Swarantar: A Journey Through Indian Classical Music

The concert will feature two prominent artistes: Pt Abhay Rustam Sopori, an accomplished santoor maestro and composer, cultural ambassador of Kashmir, torchbearer of Sopori musical lineage of Kashmir and Pt Ojesh Pratap Singh, an eminent Hindustani classical vocalist, known for his mastery in Khayal.

(Collaboration: AntarHriday Connect)

Art Matters
 

AE Krishna Sobti, An evening on Krishna Sobti writings.

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)
 

The Last Shaman( 2016;80 min;English)

Director: Raz Degan

How far would you go to save your own life?
Disillusioned with his all-American life, a young man is confronted by thoughts of suicide. To save his life, he embarks on a journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where stories of Shamans and Ayahuasca ceremonies promise psychic redemption. His experiences with tribal medicines are life-changing—but he is also forced to confront the parts of himself he has long struggled to understand.

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)