Curator: Sharon Lowen

A two-day dance festival organised in collaboration with Manasa-Art Without Frontiers. The festival includes four performances and a Seminar

Seraikella Chhau
Presented by ‘Trinetra’ Chhau Dance Centre, Seraikella, founded by the late Guru Pt. Gopal Dubey (Padmashree and SNA Awardee)

Followed by
 

Odissi Recital
By Guru Ranjana Gauhar (Padmashree & SNA Awardee) and her disciples
 

Celebrated theatre director, actor, and filmmaker, M.K. Raina

In conversation with Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Swati Tiwari from Delhi, disciple of Guru Shashwati Mandal
Accompanists: Ujith Uday Kumar (tabla); and Dr. Mausam (harmonium)

At 19:00
 

Bharatanatyam Recital
By Ramya Suresh from Bengaluru, disciple and daughter-in-law of Smt Indira Kadambi
 

Hindustani Classical Music
 

Vocal Recital
By Shashwati Mandal
Accompanied by Ustad Akram Khan (tabla); and Dr. Mausam (harmonium)

Followed by
Vocal Recital
By Bhagyesh Marathe, grandson of Pt. Ram Marathe
Accompanied by Pt. Vinod Lele (tabla); and Paromita Mukherjee (harmonium)

(Collaboration: Shanti Agrawal Association for Music, Arts & Literature)
 

Court (India)
(116 min; 2014; with English subtitles)

Director: Chaitanya Tamhane

Multiple award winner including Golden Lotus Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, India 2015; Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film & Venice Horizons Award for Best Film, Venice Film Festival 2014; Best Film Award – International Competition, Best Actor Award, FIPRESCI Prize (Competition) & Signis Award, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2015; Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature Film & Silver Screen Award for Best Director-Asian Feature Film, Singapore International Film Festival 2014; among others

The film will be introduced by Apar Gupta, lawyer and writer on democracy and technology

Narayan Kamble, an ageing folk singer is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited a sewage worker to commit suicide. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Sonali Bose from Kolkata, disciple of Guru Smt Girija Devi
Accompanied by Zaheen Khan on tabla

At 19:00
Kathak Recital
By Komal Khushwani from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Jai Kishan Maharaj
 

Panelists: Prof. Naman P. Ahuja, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Preeti Bahadur Ramaswamy, Ashoka University; and Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author of several books on Indian art and formerly Chief Editor, IIC Publications Division

Closing Remarks: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 

Professor B.N. Goswamy (15 August 1933 – 17 November 2023) was a world-renowned authority on Indian painting, whose writings had seminal influence on our understanding of art. His works included, The Mughals and Jogis of Jakhbar (co-author, 1967), ‘Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style’ (1968), A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720–1820 (co-author, 1983), Pahari Masters (co-author, 1992), the multi-volume Indian Costumes in the Calico Museum of Textiles (1993–), I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion (co-author, 2006), The Spirit of Indian Painting (2014), Oxford Readings in Indian Art (2018) and The Great Mysore Bhagavata (2019). He collaborated on curating such path-breaking exhibitions as ‘Essence of Indian Art’ (San Francisco, 1986), ‘Pahari Masters’ (Zürich, 1990), ‘Domains of Wonder’ (San Diego, 2005–06) and 'The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word' (Frankfurt, 2006). He was Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, and visiting professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, California, Texas (Austin) and Zürich. 
 

I am Sirat (Canada)
(87 min; 2023; English)

Directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja who will introduce the film

Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.

Screening will be followed by a Conversation on Gender, Gaze and Society: The Role of Human Rights Cinema over the Years in Shifting the Gaze

Organised in collaboration with Engendered Transnational Arts & Human Rights, I-View World Film Salon Series
 

Shapmochan

Rabindranath Tagore’s popular dance drama presented by Gaaner Tori, New Delhi

Directed by Trina Bhattacharya

Shapmochan which loosely translates as ‘Breaking the Curse’ is about a king who has a complex about his physical appearance, so much so that he sends a veena to represent him at his own wedding ceremony. He meets his wife only at night and impresses her with his soulful music, sensitive words and dance. Even though his wife, a Princess is eager to his him physically, he insists that she must first like him for his inner beauty

(Collaboration: Impresario India)
 

A duet between Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee and Shibashish Bandopadhyay (keyboard) through spoken words, dramatized readings and music

Readings from Rabindranath Tagore to Bob Dylan, from Leonard Cohen to Shankho Ghosh interspersed with music