Speaker: Mr Vytis Vidunas, Lecturer, Asian and Transcultural Studies Centre, Vilnius University

Chair: Professor Shashi Bala, Dean, Centre of Indology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Mr Vytis Vidunas is a Sanskrit scholar, who also works on comparative linguistics and similarities between Sanskrit and Lithuanian languages. He is the author of the Sanskrit-Lithuanian dictionary initiated by the Lithuanian Embassy in India and published by the Lithuanian Language Institute in 2016.

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division; and Embassy of Lithuania)

Talking about Music

Dr. Ashis Nandy in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

To Celebrate the Birth Centenary of Pt. Kumar Gandharva

A day-long seminar organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation

11:00 TO 13:30
Musical Vision
With Satyasheel Deshpande; Anubhuti Sharma; Madan Soni; Arun Khopkar; Partho Datta; Neela Bhagwat; and Jyotirmoy Sharma

14:30 TO 16:00
Musical Practice
With Vidyadhar Vyas; Madhup Mudgal;  Asteek Vajpayi; Priyavrat Soni; and Manjari Sinha

16:30 TO 18:00
Raag and Folk Music

With Dhruv Shukla; Udayan Vajpeyi; Rajiv Vora;  Shabnam Virmani and Kalapini Komkali

AT 18:30
Absence and Presence
With Kumar Shahani; Ghulam Mohd. Sheikh;  Bhuvanesh Komkali