Speakers: Mr. Selvan Naidoo, Director of the 1860 Heritage Centre, Durban, South Africa; Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Distinguished Professor, Ashoka University and Life Trustee, IIC; Shri Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former Indian High Commissioner to South Africa; Latha Reddy, former Deputy NSA and former Secretary (East) MEA ; Mr. Sedula Mashudubele Mamabolo, Counsellor (Political), South African High Commission; Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni, columnist and Aide to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee; and Shri Anil Nauriya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV) and Trustee, IIC

The programme will commence with the release of ‘E.S. Reddy – Festschrift’, Edited by Jairam Reddy and Selvan Naidoo (Micro Mega and 1860 Heritage Centre, Durban: 2022)

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy (1924-2020) powered the powerful international solidarity for the epic anti-apartheid movement and was a hero of the liberation struggle of South Africa. ES was the moving spirit behind the United Nations’ Centre Against Apartheid from the 1960s to the 1980s. He devoted his later years to writing extensively on the struggle against Apartheid, Gandhi’s philosophy of Satyagraha and non-violence and India - South Africa relations. He was a rare individual from one country (India) who dedicated his life to the liberation struggle of another country (South Africa).

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Anisha Ray from Delhi, disciple of the late Pandit Manas Chakraborty & late Guru Sarathi Chatterji 
 
 

At 19:00 
Kathak Duet Recital
By Anjali Munjal and Muskaan from Delhi, disciples of Guru Vidha Lal 
 

Frankenstein
 

By Mary Shelley (Maple Press; 2020)

Discussants: Dr. Karen Gabriel, Head, Dept. of English & Director, Centre for Gender, Culture and Social Processes, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University; Dr. Abhinav Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University; and Dr. Alphy Geever, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University

Chair: Amb. K. P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University, Pune and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi

Resurrecting Lost Memories and Linguistic Archaeology of Ancient Cultures

Speaker: Prof. Anvita Abbi, Distinguished linguist and scholar of tribal and other minority languages of South Asia; B.B. Borkar, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Goa University and formerly Professor of Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Chair: Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, essayist, literary-cultural critic and eminent cultural and arts administrator

Opening Remarks: Suhas Borker, Convenor, Dr Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Committee and Trustee, IIC

Closing Remarks: Dr Subhash Malik, Renowned Anthropologist

(Collaboration: Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Committee)

Lead presentation by Prof. Manu Bhagavan, specialist on modern India, Professor of History, Human Rights, and Public Policy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center-The City University of New York, and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.  He is the author or editor of eight books, including the critically-acclaimed The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World and, most recently, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: A Biography.  

Introductory Remarks: Smt Nayantara Sahgal

Chair: Dr. Usha Ramanathan,  independent law researcher

Professor Manu Bhagavan will speak on women in leadership, with a focus on Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit's contributions to India and the world.  He will draw on his extensive experience of India's foreign policy and contributions to the United Nations, and his deeply researched biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

This exhibition showcases more than 50 toys and dolls from different States and UTs of India made of wood, papier-mâché, metal, tin, stone carving, leather, candle, clothes, seashells etc.

From the Agnibarna-Madhumadhabi Bhaduri collection and Curated by Asani Bhaduri

As part of this exhibition, there will be a discussion on Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 5 pm in the Art Gallery, IIC Annexe

Toys Today

Panelists: Alok Bhalla; Mugdha Sinha; and Sukrita Paul Kumar

Moderator: Asani Bhaduri

Traditional toys and dolls are vanishing from urban playrooms, whether at home or in playschools. Are toys relevant in the age of video games and animations? Is there a renewed interest in toys in some sections of society? What has changed in the past few decades? The panelists will address some of these issues and the past, present and future of toys.

Webinar

The Unseen Raja Ravi Varma

Speaker: Ganesh V. Shivaswamy, advocate, author and academic

Ravi Varma has been largely explored in isolation and this is how many academicians have dealt with his legacy. However, there is a lot more to Ravi Varma. For instance, his obsession with equestrian imagery, the use of photography, and myths around his inspiration have all been overlooked. The lesser-known works and all those who worked behind the scenes helped him build his image. All of these will be explored in the presentation.

Ganesh V. Shivaswamy is a lawyer in Bengaluru but his passion lies in structuring the artistic legacy of Raja Ravi Varma. He has a substantial collection of chromolithographs from the Ravi Varma Press. In 2006, he commemorated the centennial death anniversary of the artist by creating the first online catalogue of prints from the Press. Ganesh continues his research on the artist and is the author of a six-volume book series, Raja Ravi Varma: An Everlasting Imprint which explores the social, religious and aesthetic impact of the images from the Ravi Varma Press on the people of the Indian sub-continent and beyond.

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

Zoom Registration link:  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpde2ppjwoG9KPNAtGk80VA3YcGC…
Meeting ID:   874 2418 7216