Speaker: Prof. Charles Esche, Director, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven and Professor of Contemporary Art and Curator, University of the Arts, London; Adviro, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and board member, ZKM Stutgart

Chair: Dr. Geeta Kapur

(Collaboration: Sher-gil Sundaram Arts Foundation)

Hindustani Classical Music
 

Vocal Recital
By Shashwati Mandal
Accompanied by Ustad Akram Khan (tabla); and Dr. Mausam (harmonium)

Followed by
Vocal Recital
By Bhagyesh Marathe, grandson of Pt. Ram Marathe
Accompanied by Pt. Vinod Lele (tabla); and Paromita Mukherjee (harmonium)

(Collaboration: Shanti Agrawal Association for Music, Arts & Literature)
 

An exhibition of paintings – watercolour and acrylic on paper
By Pavan Kumar D. from Hyderabad

Inauguratin on Friday, 17 May 2024 at 18:00 by Shri. Dharmendra Rathore, eminent visual artist: Chief Guest, Shri. Johny M L, art historian, curator and cultural critic 

Court (India)
(116 min; 2014; with English subtitles)

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane

Multiple award winner including Golden Lotus Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, India 2015; Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film & Venice Horizons Award for Best Film, Venice Film Festival 2014; Best Film Award – International Competition, Best Actor Award, FIPRESCI Prize (Competition) & Signis Award, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2015; Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature Film & Silver Screen Award for Best Director-Asian Feature Film, Singapore International Film Festival 2014; among others

The film will be introduced by Apar Gupta, lawyer and writer on democracy and technology

Narayan Kamble, an ageing folk singer is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited a sewage worker to commit suicide. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.

Surviving Annapurna – The Dangerous 8000 meter Mountain of the World

Illustrated lecture by Anurag Maloo, young Indian mountaineer who has successfully participated in mountaineering Expeditions to Mt. Nun (7135 m) in India and Mt. Ama Dablam (6812 m) in Nepal. An economic development consultant, startup mentor, social activist, engineer, and a global advocate for UN Sustainable Development Goals

Chair: Brig. Ashok Abbey (retd.)

An intriguing talk which recounts Anurag Maloo’s fall into a deep crevasse, during his Expedition to Mount Annapurna (8091 m). His experience of being in a frozen tomb for three days and three nights, his difficult rescue by his saviours especially by the two strong Polish climbers after a tedious and demanding rescue operation…

India’s Finance Ministers: Stumbling into Reforms (1977 to 1998)

By A.K. Bhattacharya (Penguin Business: 2024)

Discussants: Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Chief Economic Adviser, Govt. of India; Dr. Rakesh Mohan, President Emeritus, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) and formerly Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India; and Shri A.K. Bhattachrya, Editorial Director, The Business Standard and author of the Book

Dhrupad Recital

By Rubi Mallick Goswami from Bhiwadi, disciple of Pt. Ram Kumar Mallick

At 19:00
Kathak Recital
By Komal Khushwani from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Jai Kishan Maharaj
 

Speaker: Neha Sanghrajka, Senior Conflict Sensitivity Adviser, United Nations and Fellow and Senior Advisor, Geneva Centre for Security

Discussants: Rita Manchanda, Independent Consultant on Gender, Peace and Security in South Asia; and Ruchita Beri, former Senior Research Associate and Centre Coordinator Africa, LAC, UN Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses

Moderator: Sumona Dasgupta, Senior Research Consultant, WISCOMP and Member, Women Mediators across the Commonwealth (WMC)

The first in a series of WISCOMP Dialogues: Conversations on Mediation, the talk will highlight Neha Sanghrajka’s experience of mediation in Kenya and more recently in Mozambique where she played a critical role as a mediator leading to the signing of the Maputo Peace Accord of 2019. The discussants will reflect on how the presentation speaks to the experience of peacebuilding in South Asia and the importance and relevance of learning from African experiences at a time when the India Africa relationship has found a new articulation

(Collaboration: Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace)

Panelists: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, IIC-International Research Division; Prof. Naman P. Ahuja, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Ashoka University; and Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author of several books on Indian art and formerly Chief Editor, IIC Publications Division

Closing Remarks: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Professor B.N. Goswamy (15 August 1933 – 17 November 2023) was a world-renowned authority on Indian painting, whose writings had seminal influence on our understanding of art. His works included, The Mughals and Jogis of Jakhbar (co-author, 1967), ‘Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style’ (1968), A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720–1820 (co-author, 1983), Pahari Masters (co-author, 1992), the multi-volume Indian Costumes in the Calico Museum of Textiles (1993–), I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion (co-author, 2006), The Spirit of Indian Painting (2014), Oxford Readings in Indian Art (2018) and The Great Mysore Bhagavata (2019). He collaborated on curating such path-breaking exhibitions as ‘Essence of Indian Art’ (San Francisco, 1986), ‘Pahari Masters’ (Zürich, 1990), ‘Domains of Wonder’ (San Diego, 2005–06) and 'The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word' (Frankfurt, 2006). He was Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, and visiting professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, California, Texas (Austin) and Zürich. 
 

I am Sirat (Canada)
(87 min; 2023; English)

Directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja who will introduce the film

Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.

Screening will be followed by a Conversation on Gender, Gaze and Society: The Role of Human Rights Cinema over the Years in Shifting the Gaze

With Deepa Mehta and Sirat

Introduction: H.E. Ms Marisa Gerards, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India

Moderator: Myna Mukherjee, Director, Engendered

Organised in collaboration with Engendered Transnational Arts & Human Rights, I-View World Film Salon Series; Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Embassy of Belgium; and Naz Foundation