Audio-visual presentation by Shri Shail Vyas, Homi Bhabha Fellow, Mumbai, musicologist and composer

Followed by a panel discussion

Panelists: Dr. R.S. Bisht, former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; Dr. Vasant Shinde, former Vice Chancellor, Deccan College, Pune; Dr. K.N. Dikshit, former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; and Dr. B.R. Mani, former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Moderator: Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, former Director, Archaeological Survey of India and Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

An introduction to a new and fascinating research on Harappan Archaeomusicology that attempts to recreate ancient sounds and music. This multidisciplinary research has revealed a large set of linguistic data that strongly points towards a language that the Harappans may have spoken. The illustrated presentation will be followed by panel discussion with leading archaeologists who will share their views and discuss the far-reaching implications of this path breaking research 

 

Kathak Recital 

By Tabasmi Paul Majumdar from Delhi, disciple of Dr. Malabika Mitra
Accompanists: Kushal Basu (vocal); Siddhartha Bhattacharjee (tabla & Bol Padant); and Shabhoo Sisodiya (sarangi)

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Hindustani Vocal Recital 
By Subhashis Bhawal from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Amaresh Chandra Chawdhury, Pt. Samaresh Chawdhury, Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar and Pt. Ramashreya Jha
Accompanists: Chetan Nigam (harmonium); and Madhurjya Barthakur (tabla)
 

Challenges Africa Faces Today

Speaker: Amb. Gurjit Singh, India’s former Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Welcome Address: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
Closing Address: H.E. Mr. Joel Sibusiso Ndebele, High Commissioner of South Africa

A career diplomat, Amb. Gurjit Singh is one of India’s foremost experts on African affairs. Amb. Gurjit Singh was posted as Deputy High Commissioner of India to Kenya (1995-2000); India’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and African Union (2005-2009); and he headed the undivided Africa division at the Ministry of External Affairs in 2001-2002 and was later Additional Secretary and Sherpa for the second India-Africa Summit 2009-2012. He has also served as India’s Ambassador to Indonesia, ASEAN and German. Amb. Gurjit Singh is Honorary Professor of International Studies at IIT-Indore; and is the author of the recently published book The Harambee Factor – India-Africa Economic and Development Partnership (Macmillian, 2022)

The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was instituted at IIC in 2018 to mark the Centenary of Madiba

(Collaboration: South African High Commission; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Migration, Informality, and the Growing Precarity of Work

Speaker: Prof. Ravi Srivasavta, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Presented by The Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

Sopranos: Aastha Mohapatra, Meera Arora, Serene Philip
Contralto: Ankur Dang
Baritone: Johnson Joseph Wilson

Accompanied on the piano by Hanna Pashkevich on the piano

A musical soiree with European vocal music through the ages in several languages

Dastangoi presented by Mahmood Farooqui, award-winning writer and director best known for reviving Dastangoi

A dastangoi on the painter, S.H. Raza’s journey from a small village in Madhya Pradesh to the pinnacle of international fame. It describes the ferment of the Bombay of the 1940s, the formation of the Progressive Artists Group, Raza’s early days in France, his passionate love for Janine Mongillat, his trilingual love for poetry, and his search for Truth through Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Ayush Dwivedi from Kanpur, disciple of Pt. Vinod Kumar Dwivedi
Accompanied by Rishi Shankar Updhaya on pakhawaj

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Kuchipudi Recital

By Vaidehi Kulkarni from Nashik, disciple of the late Guru Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam and Guru Smt Manju Barggavee
 

Curator: Rajiv Mehrotra

Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (90 min; 2021)
A film by Louie Psihoyos & Peggy Callahan

The film gives unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international Nobel Peace Prize laureates and global leaders who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Featuring never-before-seen footage shot over 5 days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these luminaries as they share their hard-won wisdom about a wide range of issues from love, karma, guilt, and forgiveness, to joy, faith, meditation, and reincarnation. Offering neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy under any circumstance, the film is an antidote for our times

(Collaboration: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)  

Play by Badal Sircar
Directed by Tarique Hameed

Presented by Wings Cultural Society

With Prince, Virika Solanki, Tarique Hameed, Rajguru Mohan, Danish Khan, Anupam Sharma, Sakshum Kapoor, Riya Banerjee, Sumit Kapoor, Moulshree, Sachin Agrawal, Harkirat Kaur, Vajid Ali, and Puja Bansal

Spartacus was the leader of the great slave revolt that began in 71 BC and shook the mighty Roman Empire. The play revolves around five actions – capturing of the people, selling of these captives in the market, slaves toiling, gladiator-slaves fighting in the arena, and the crucifixion of the slaves for acts of rebellion. Badal Sircar, the well-known playwright adapted this play from his favourite novel of the same title by Howard Fast. Wanting to dramatize the story, it is the first play by Sircar where he has used the human body to develop the action in the play. 

Launch of the book by Alyque Padamsee, co-authored with Vandana Saxena Poria (Viking: 2022)

Introduction & Moderator: Raell Padamsee who will speak about her father and about the book

A conversation with Ms Paro Anand, well-known author of children’s literature; Shri Feisal Alkazi, educationist, theatre director and activist; and Ms Vandana Saxena Poria OBE, Co-Author & Chief Alarmist, The Human Alarm Clock & Co.

The late Alyque Padamsee was India’s iconic advertising and theatre guru. Even after his death, he continues to live on and be controversial. The co-author Vandana Saxena Poria collaborated with Alyque Padamsee for three years prior to his death to put the book together from 175 hours of conversation with him.