Veena Recital  
By Ustad Bahauddin Dagar - Rudra Veena &
Vidushi Saraswati Rajagopalan - Saraswati Veena

Followed by a jugalbandi
 

THURSDAY 9 & 10

FESTIVAL ¦ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00                
Carnatic Music Vocal Duet Recital
By Vidwan Malladi Sreeramprasad & Vidwan Malladi Dr.Ravi Kumar

On Friday 10 April at 18:00
Veena Recital  
By Ustad Bahauddin Dagar - Rudra Veena &
Vidushi Saraswati Rajagopalan - Saraswati Veena

Followed by a jugalbandi

   
Carnatic Music Vocal Duet Recital
By Vidwan Malladi Sreeramprasad & Vidwan Malladi Dr.Ravi Kumar

On Friday 10 April at 18:00
Veena Recital  
By Ustad Bahauddin Dagar - Rudra Veena &
Vidushi Saraswati Rajagopalan - Saraswati Veena

Followed by a jugalbandi
 

Nritya Nada: An Illustrative Essence in Swara and Tala
Conceptualized and directed by : Dr. Sucharita Khanna
Choreographer: Chitra C. Dasarathy
Composer: Praveen D. Rao
Melodious taranas by Dr. Veena Pani Shukla
Performers:  Dr. Sucharita Khanna; Aparnika Sahu; Tarini Chandrashekhar; Harshit Singh; Karuna Solomon; Anyesha Kheria; Vandita Bhandari; Shivanshi Agarwal.

Nritya Nada is a Bharatanatyam dance ballet based on the original ragas of the five faces of Panchamukhi Shiva and Devi Parvati. Through its artistic narrative, it beautifully conveys the timeless ethos of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, while celebrating the profound beauty and spiritual depth of Indian classical music. The production features several bandish compositions by Padma Shri Balwantrai Bhatt and Shri Shankar Shripad Bodas.

(Collaboration: Kalanidhi – Centre for Performing Arts, Kanpur)
 

Akbar Padamsee: Works and Words
(English; 50 mins)
Directed by Laurent Bregeat.

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)
 

Soulful Journey - Dan Zhu World Recital Tour 2026
Dan Zhu on violin; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger on piano

Dan Zhu an internationally acclaimed violinist, he made his Carnegie Hall debut at 18. Performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg Festspiele, Marlboro, Marvão, Enescu, Schleswig-Holstein, Prades-Casals, Ravinia and Spoleto. Has appeared with leading orchestras under conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, Neeme Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Jacek Kaspszyk, Alexander Rahbari, Muhai Tang, Long Yu and many more.

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger a distinguished French pianist and composer, performed with orchestras such as NHK Symphony Orchestra, the New-York Philharmonic, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, Bamberger Symphoniker with conductors as Lorin Maazel, Paavo Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, David Zinman, Jonathan Nott.
 

Art Matters
Urdu Poetry with Saeed Naqvi, Senior Journalist

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)
 

THE IIC DOUBLE BILL: MUSIC RECITALS

Santoor Recital
By Anoushka Majumdar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Pt. Abhay Rustum Sopori
 
At 18:30
Mystic Meera- Bhajan recital

By Priya Kanungo, Disciple of Guru Pt Vidyadhar Vyas
 

Concert 
Piano recital by Kendzsi Tanaka, a Hungarian-Japanese pianist, trained at the Vántus István Music High School in Szeged, the Royal Academy of Music, London under Joanna MacGregor, and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.

(Collaboration: Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Centre Delhi, Embassy of Hungary)

 

The Chameli Devi Jain Award 2026

For Outstanding Woman Media Person of the Year, the Vishwa Nath-Delhi Press Award for Fearless Journalism and the Kamla Mankekar Award for Journalism on Gender will also be presented

Followed by BG Verghese Memorial Lecture on 'Freedom of the Purse and the AI of the Affluent'
To be delivered by P Sainath, Journalist and Founder-Editor of People's Archive of Rural India, will deliver the 12th BG

(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)