Sitar Recital

By Supratik Sengupta from Kolkata, disciple of Pandit Buddhadeb Das Gupta
 
At 19:00 
Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Shubham Kumar from Delhi, Disciple of Ustad Tanveer Ahmed Khan
 

Kathak Recital
By Nisha Kesari from Delhi, disciple of Guru Rani Khanam       

At 19:00 
Odissi Duet Recital 
By Rudraprasad Swain and Ananya Parida from Orissa, disciple of Guru Aruna Mohanty and Guru Gangadhar Pradhan
 

Fireside Chat

Amb. Shyam Saran, President IIC and Cecile Fruman, Director, South Asia Regional Integration and Engagement, The World Bank

15:20 – 15:30

Presentation on “Good Neighbours”, a World Bank Report

By Nikita Singla, Consultant, South Asia Regional Integration and Engagement, The World Bank and Editor, The Good Neighbours

15:30 – 16:30

Panel discussion moderated by Mandakini Kaul, Regional Coordinator, South Asia, The World Bank (and Editor, The Good Neighbours Report)

Panelists: Swarnim Wagle, Member of Parliament, Nepal; Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairperson, India Sanitation Coalition; Pema Gyamtsho, Director General, The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal; Jyoti Malhotra, senior journalist

(Collaboration: The World Bank)

Noted photographer, Raghu Rai in conversation with Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)
 

Sitar Recital
By Adnan Khan, son and disciple of Ustad Saeed Khan, Dilli Gharana
Accompanied by Zuheb Khan on tabla

At 19:00
Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital
By Manjusha Patil, disciple of Pt. D.V. Kanebuva, Dr. Vikas Kashalkar and presently, Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar
Accompanists: Pt. Vinay Mishra (harmonium); and Prashant Yadav (tabla)

(Collaboration: Navras School of Performing Arts, Patna)
 

Listening Session on the artistry of Vilayat Khan

This listening session makes available NCPA’s archival recordings to lovers of Hindustani classical music. The session is based on rarely heard recordings of the sitar maestro, Ustad Vilayat Khan (1927-2004), which were specially recorded for NCPA’s archives during 1976-79, where, prompted by his senior most disciple, Arvind Parikh, the maestro speaks at length about his forefathers and their style, and chronicle his own journey with ample demonstrations.

This session will cover Ustad Vilayat Khan’s great heritage of seven generations, detailing the musical artistry of Imdad Khan (1848-1920), as narrated and demonstrated by him

(Collaboration: National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai)

Discussion based on the recent publication of Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India by John Guy

Panelists: John Guy, Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Jyotindra Jain, art and culture historian and renowned scholar and museologist who has authored several books and staged exhibitions on Indian folk arts and cultures; Naman Ahuja, art historian and curator, Professor of the Art and Architecture of Ancient India, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Upinder Singh, historian and Professor of History and Dean of Faculty, Ashoka University and Peter Skilling, specialist in the literary and archaeological histories of South and Southeast Asia, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Moderator: Deepanjana Klein, historian and Director of Acquisitions and Development, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art 

Before the appearance of the Buddha image, about 500 years after his lifetime, the visual repertoire used to teach the Buddha’s message was rich in its celebration of the natural world. It was presided over by its personified spirits, the yakshas and nagas. This panel will explore the many dimensions of the early religious landscape that the Buddha encountered as a mendicant, and following his passing, the emergence of the cult of relics centred on the royal tumuli, the stupa.

(Collaboration: Mapin Publishing)

Carnatic Veena Recital

By Saraswati Rajagopalan 
Accompanied by Kumbakonam N. Padmanabhan (mridangam); and Varun Rajasekharan (ghatam)

Followed by
Dhrupad Recital
By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin Dagar
Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)

6 –A Akash Ganga
(80 mins; 2023; Hindi with English subtitles)
Directed by Nirmal Chander who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
Can a musician exist without an audience? To find an answer, the film enters 6-A Akash Ganga, a flat overlooking the Arabian Sea in Mumbai. Here resides one of India’s most renowned classical musicians, a matchless guru—Annapurna Devi.
 
Maestros have waited for years for her to accept them as disciples. George Harrison, of the Beatles fame, had to seek special permission to listen to her musical practice. But in the mid-1950s, she vowed not to perform for anyone in an effort to save her crumbling marriage to the world-renowned Indian musician, Pandit Ravi Shankar, who had grown insecure with the acclaim she was receiving. Her disciple, Pt. Nityanand Haldipur, cuts through the myths to tell her story. The film has been produced by the Annapurna Devi Foundation.

A solo guitar recital by Deepak Castelino

"Under the Mango Tree" is a solo guitar presentation of original music compositions by Delhi-based musician Deepak Castelino.  Amidst an environment of overwhelming sadness and uncertainty during a severe lockdown, confined spaces, and tragic stories of loss and hardship all over, the confirming shade of the mango tree was a healing balm; a place to rest and escape albeit temporarily.

And against this grey background of gloom, the mango tree stood steadfast and strong, as a beacon of hope and rejuvenation, and gave us over two hundred sweet mangoes too as if to say, 'Don't worry, all will be well.'