ALMOST ISLAND DIALOGUES: READINGS
Organised in collaboration with Almost Island Dialogues
Readings
By Anitha Thampi, critically acclaimed poet, essayist and translator; and David Herd, poet, critic and teacher from UK
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
I want to go to Haldwani and other poems
By Satbir Chadha (Authorspress; 2024)
Discussants: Dr. Amarendra Khatua, former Director General, ICCR; Ms. Mandira Ghosh, poet, researcher and writer; Ms. Rachna Joshi, poet and reviewer; and Ms Sangeeta Gupta
Chair: Shri K. Jayakumar, President, The Poetry Society (India) and former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Kerala
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Displaced: Refugees, Trauma, and Integration within Nations
By Shaifali Sandhya (OUP, USA: 2024)
Discussants: Amb. Navtej Sarna, Author, Historian & Former Ambassador to USA; and Dr. Shaifali Sandhya, Psychologist & Author of the book
Moderator: Amir Singh Pasrich, President Oxford & Cambridge Society of India
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Anemone Morning and other poems
By Gopal Lahiri (PENPRINTS Publications: 2024)
Discussants: Dr. Payal Nagpal, Professor, Dept. of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi; Shri Mohammad Jamshed, author, poet and former Member, Central Administrative Tribunal; Ms Satbir Chadha, novelist and poet; and Shri Gopal Lahiri, poet, Editor, critic, translator and author of the book
Chair: Prof. Malashri Lal, author and Convener, English Board, Sahitya Akademi
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Poetics of Absence
An illustrated presentation by Navtej Singh Johar
The speaker will share his love for the thumri, ghazal, kafi and padam, all genres of amorous songs that address the absence of a fictitious god-lover. Using abhinaya, he will illustrate the poetic dynamics that may operate between the “real-self” and its “fictitious-other” for the purpose of aesthetic satisfaction (rasa) that can be said to be unique to the subcontinent.
Navtej Singh Johar is a dancer-choreographer, yoga practitioner, scholar and social activist. His work within all fields of his varied interests remains consistently body-centric. It twines practice with critical theory and social action while it traverses freely between the traditional and the contemporary. Johar teaches Dance Studies at Ashoka University, India, and is the founder-director of Studio Abhyas, New Delhi where he teaches two practices that he has devised over the years, the BARPS Method of Asana and Abhyas Somtics, the two being inspired by the concepts of sukh and rasa that are central to Yoga and Indian poetics respectively
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
She Storms the Norms
By Anisha Motwani & Priyadarshini Narendra (Rupa Publications India: 2024)
Discussants: Kanta Singh, Deputy Representative of UN Women India; Anisha Motwani, author of the book; and Priyadarshini Narendra, co-author of the book.
Moderator: Amb.K.P.Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University, Pune
10th Edition of Purandaradasa-Tyagaraja Music Festival
Carnatic Music- Vocal Recitals
By Vaibhav Vaidyanathan (vocal) with Soumya Kannan (violin) & Ratul S. Kumar (mridangam)
18:05 – Vocal recital by M. Aditya
18: 25 – Vocal recital by S. K. Mridula
19: 00 – Vocal recital by Keerthana Vinod
19:35 – Vocal recital by Sneha Satish
Accompanists: Siddesh Ganesh (violin); S. Swaminathan & Ratul S. Kumar (mridangam)
(Collaboration: Ramakrishnapuram South Indian Society)