A commemorative festival of theatre as a tribute to Habib Tanvir
 
Organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation, the festival presents three plays as a tribute to Habib Tanvir would have been 100 years of age last September 2023. Two of the plays follow the same path that Habib Tanvir did and the third play enacts the great master’s life and career.

Conceptualised by Dr. Udayan Vajpeyi
 
Kanupriya

Directed by Ratan Thiyam
Script by Dharamveer Bharati
Presented by Chorus Repertory Theatre, Imphal

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
By Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Penguin Random House India: 2024)
 
Discussants: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Datta, historian; Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan, former Professor, Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Arudra Burra, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; and Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, historian of Indian political thought and author of the book


Chair: Shri Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, journalist and author

Coordinator and Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar
 
Panelists: Dr. S.V. Madhu, Director & Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi; Dr. Pramod Tripathi, Founder, Freedom from Diabetes (FFD), Pune; and Dr. Sandeep Aggarwal, Professor of Surgery & Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, AIIMS, New Delhi  and Dr. Raja Ram Mahto, Associate Professor, Dept. of Kayachikitsa, I/C Diabetes and Metabolic Care Unit, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi
 

The session will also include a presentation on the AYUSH Experience
 
Moderator: Prof. S.V. Madhu

An exhibition of paintings by Sipra Dattagupta from Kolkata
 
Bathed in monochromatic colours of ochre and gold, the paintings follow some of the most well-known trails of the city – through high streets, bookshops, pubs and colleges
 
Inauguration by Ms Christina Scott, CMG, Deputy High Commissioner, British High Commission on Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 18:30
 

 

The Roma Exodus and Reconnection with a Forgotten Diaspora

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Punita G. Singh, acoustician, musicologist, linguist, editor and educator based in Delhi. She has taught at Washington University in the US, McGill University, Canada and is currently, Visiting Faculty at Ashoka University, Sonipat

India is regarded as the original homeland of the Roma, yet most history books in schools omit mention of a Roma exodus and research and scholarship on the subject has been sparse. If the emigration of Roma out of India dates back to a millennium or earlier as posited by some scholars, the parallel influx of traders, invaders and colonizers over the intervening period seems to have overwritten their story. This presentation reviews the story of the Roma and their connection, disconnection and reconnection with India.

Panel discussion led by Amb. Shyam Saran, President IIC, former Foreign Secretary of India; Prof. Madhavan K. Palat, well-known historian and expert on European and Russian history; and Amb. Rakesh Sood, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan and Nepal

Moderator: Cmde C. Uday Bhaskar
 

“Time is on my side”: Vivan Sundaram (28 May 1943-29 March 2023)

Talks by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, cultural theorist and curator; and Sabih Ahmed, curator

(Collaboration: Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation)