Tales of the Wild

An exhibition of wildlife photographs 
By Madhur Nangia

Inauguration by Dr. Latika Nath, conservation ecologist, photographer and author on Tuesday, 7th January 2025 at 18:30

Main Tum Hoon, Tum Main Ho! (Hindi/Hindustani; 50 min)

Human values, such as empathy, compassion, resilience, are vividly reflected in Hindi literature particularly in the context of the Partition of India in 1947. The traumatic division of the country left millions displaced, with families torn apart, and communities fractured by violence and distrust. Writers of the time portrayed the raw human emotions and the social chaos that accompanied this historic event.

A performance based on text - poetry, prose and anecdotes in the works of Punjabi writers such as Mohan Rakesh, Bhishm Sahani, Krishna Sobti, Agyeya, and Yashpal.

Dramatised readings and enactment by Alka Ranjan, Prof. Apoorvanand, Dr. Purwa Raza Haider and Yusra Naqvi

Concert – Piano for Four Hands

By Gioia Barbera and Federico Bucaioni from Italy

The artists will present compositions by W.A. Mozart; Franz Schubert; and S. Rachmaninov among others

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)
 

Nepal-China Relations: Elite, Interest, and Geopolitics

Panelists: Prof. S.D. Muni, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Gaurav Bhattarai, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; Dr. Smruti S. Pattanaik, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar-Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; and Dr. Gunjan Singh, Associate Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal Global University, Sonepat

Moderator: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi 
 

Illustrated talk by Naeem Mohaeimen who researches the unresolved liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s and the conflict between memory and history

Discussants: Dr. Shukla Sawant and Dr. Suryanandini Narain, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Introduction: Rahaab Allana

The discussion will analyze the ambiguous if not contradictory and dialectical nature of social realism in photography in the two Bengals that were created through partitions
 
(Collaboration: The Alkazi Foundation)
 

Playing with the Goddess: Gavri of the Mewar Bhils
By Aditi Ghosh Mehta (New Delhi: IGNCA, 2024  ) 

Discussants: Prof. Brahma Prakash , Scholar & Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General (Academic), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies; Ms Aditi Ghosh Mehta, former Additional Chief Secretary of Rajasthan and author of the book

Moderator: Dr. Roma Chatterji, Former Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Professor of History and International Affairs (Emeritus), Princeton University

The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Prof. Kotkin and Prof. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research and Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University

(Collaboration: Centre for Policy Research)