Aaj Kavita features new Urdu poetry with readings by young poets: Charagh Sharma (Chandausi); Mohammad Afaan (Srinagar); Shehla Kaleem (Muradabad); Amardeep Singh (Patiala); Belal Sabir (Kolkata); Pallav Mishra, Safeer Siddiquie, Faizan Moquim, Abbas Qamar, Mohd. Aqib and Shahbaz Rizvi (Delhi)

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Rain in Bulandshahr: A Novel
By Achla Bansal (Authorspress,2023)

Discussants: Shri Sunit Tandon, well-known theatre and film personality and Director, India Habitat Centre, President Delhi Music Society ;Dr. Lakshmi Kannan, poet, novelist and short story writer; Ms. Mridula Garg, writer and poet; Dr. Amarendra Khatua, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and former Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Diplomat and poet; and Ms. Achla Bansal, author of the book

Chair: Shri K. N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Legends in One Frame: Portraying the Lives of Great Maestros through the Lens of Ace Photographer Avinash Pasricha

Text by Sadhna Shrivastav (Shubhi Publications: 2024)

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh

Discussants: Dr. Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, IGNCA; Ms Shovana Narayan, well-known Kathak artist/Guru and author; Ms Anita Singh, musicologist , arts administrator and Arts Historian; and Ms Sadhna Shrivastav, anchor and author of the book

Where from, where to, Music my Love?
A non-authoritative provocative exploration by Shankar Barua

Streams of thought with an off-mainstream India tilt will be shared, spanning the cusp of millennia from the past century towards the imponderable future, together with brief illustrative video-clips and possibly even a basic demonstration or two along the way

Shankar Barua, better known as ShankarBaba has been an on-again off-again musician and composer since his teens in the 1970s. The illustrated talk will focus upon the works, associations, and continuum surrounding the 7 CD-Gazettes he produced between 2000-2004 as The Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts (The IDEA), as well as the 10 annual iterations of the three-day Carnival of e-Creativity he curated in 2006-2016 under the banner of a private trust, The AeA; with the first three having each been produced in association with, and in, IIC

Enhancing Capacity Governance

Welcome Address: Shri Suresh K. Goel, former Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations

Introductory Remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, President, IC Centre for Governance

Keynote Address: Dr. Balasubramaniam (Balu), Member, Capacity Building Commission

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)
 

Living a Positive Old Age

Speaker: Dr. Harshbir Rana, Founder and CEO, Positive Aged

Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur: A Guided Listening Session

Illustrated presentation by Irfan Zuberi 

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur (1910-92) was an eminent Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Gwalior & Atrauli gharanas. Having learnt from Pandit Nilakanthabua Alurmath, Ustad Manji Khan and Ustad Bhurji Khan, he was able to craft a gayaki that appealed to the cognoscenti as well as lay listeners. In this guided listening session, we would get to hear a selection of his important recordings, from the historical, musical and aesthetic perspectives.

Irfan Zuberi has been working in the domain of arts & cultural heritage for over two decades. Since its inception in 2014, he has headed the National Cultural Audiovisual Archives at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Presently, Irfan is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Tübingen, Germany and is also working on a biography of Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur on a fellowship of the Raza Foundation, Delhi.

Secularism in the Indian Constitution

Panelists: Manoj Jha; Zoya Hasan; Apoorvanand; and Harsh Mander

Chair: Neera Chandhoke

(Collaboration: Centre for Equity Studies)

Indian Tax Collection – Too High or Too Low

Welcome Address: Shri Suresh K. Goel, former Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Opening Remarks: Dr. Anand P. Gupta, former Professor of Economics, IIM, Ahmedabad

Keynote Address: Shri Surjit Bhalla, former Executive Director, International Monetary Fund

(Collaboration: I.C. Centre for Governance)

Musica Universalis: The Music of the Spheres in European Philosophy and Musical History

Illustrated presentation by Come Carpentier de Gourdon, Convener, Editorial Board of the World Affairs Journal, author of From India to Infinity

Chair: Dr. Punita Singh, musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in Delhi