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Programme

 

India International Centre

 

1-20

November

     2008

Saturday 1st ■ Auditorium at 17:00

 

Films on Spirituality and Faith

 

The Question of God (225 min; dvd; English)

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis with Dr. Armand Nicholi

 

The film explores in accessible and dramatic style, issues that preoccupy all thinking people today: What is happiness? How do we find meaning and purpose in our lives? How do we reconcile conflicting claims of love and sexuality? How do we cope with the problem of suffering and the inevitability of death? Based on a popular Harvard course taught by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, this programme illustrates the lives and insights of Sigmund Freud, a life-long critic of religious beliefs, and C.S. Lewis, a celebrated Oxford don, literary critic and perhaps this century’s most influential and popular proponent of faith based on reason

 

There will be a 10 minute intermission at 18:30 hrs

 

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

 

Saturday 1st ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Holy Cow and Other Poems

A programme of poetry and discussion around the recently published book of poems of the same title by S. Nihal Singh

 

Speakers: Shri K.N. Daruwalla; and Ms Pamela Philipose

 

Chair: Prof. Indra Nath Choudhury

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

Tuesday 4th ■ Auditorium at 18:30

 

Film

All the World’s a Stage (60 min; dv cam; 2008; English & with subtitles)

Directed by Nirmal Chander who will introduce the film

Produced by PSBT

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Settled mainly on the west coast of India, the Sidi’s are a small community that came from East Africa about 800 years ago. Centuries of discrimination and indifference have pushed them down the socio-economic ladder, but their unique devotional music, in praise of a Sufi saint, has given them a strong sense of identity and stability. All the World’s a Stage weaves together the lives and aspirations of a motley group of men – shopkeepers, drivers, carpenters, masons – who make up an internationally successful performance group called the Sidi Goma. The film celebrates the joyous energy of their ritual songs and dances, even as it traces their struggle to survive, and to win respect in a world that threatens to marginalize them even further

 

Wednesday  5th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Frontiers of History

 

A National Flag for India – Rituals, Nationalism and the Politics of Sentiment

An illustrated lecture by Dr. Arundhati Virmani, former Reader, Dept. of History, University of Delhi and presently, Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille

 

Chair: Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, Indian Council for Historical Research

 

 

Thursday 6th ■ Auditorium at 18:30

 

Carnatic Classical Vocal Recital

By P.B. Kanna Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Sayeed Pascha Saheb and Prof. Radha Venkatachalam

 

 

Friday 7th ■ Auditorium at 18:30

 

Melodies from Calcutta

An illustrated lecture by Shri Pran Nevile, author-scholar on the ‘Genius of R.C. Boral’ founding father of Indian film music

 

Followed by a Concert

Presented by Gaurav Sood and Jaspreet Kaur Sood

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)

 

Friday 7th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Ghaznavids Between Iran and India: Institutional and Cultural Aspects of India’s first Sultanate (991-1186 AD)

Speaker: Mr. George Malagaris from the Dept. of History, Columbia University and AIIS Junior Research Fellow

 

Chair: Prof. Saiyid Zaheer Hussain Jafri, Head, Dept. of History, University of Delhi

 

The Ghaznavids raided northwest India at the start of the 10th century and maintained a capital in Lahore until the end of the 12th century. They are typically viewed as the ultimate Islamic Turkic warriors who initiated a wave of fanaticism and repression in India. This lecture, based on primary sources and the latest international scholarship, aims at a more nuanced and realistic picture. It will address some of the economic motives for Ghaznavid raids in light of the silver crisis of medieval Central Asia and Iran

 

First in a new series of lectures being organised in collaboration with American Institute of Indian Studies

 

Monday 10th ■ Auditorium at 18:30

 

Odissi Recital

By Sudha Mukhopadhyay from Delhi, senior disciple of Smt Madhavi Mudgal

 

 

(Collaboration: Seher)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 10th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Conservation of Monuments in the Chambal Ghati

An illustrated lecture by Shri Mohammed K.K., Archaeological Survey of India

 

Chair: Shri Jagmohan

 

Tuesday 11th  ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

The Magic of Prithviraj, Padmini and Pratap in the Vernacular Imaginaire: Revisiting the Interface of Colonialism, and Nationalism

Speaker: Prof. Shail Mayaram, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

The lecture will explore a moment that was constitutive of Hindu-Muslim difference. It will use as point of entry the work of James Tod (1782-1835) and reviews recent interventions in the debate on colonialism, orientalism and nationalism. Tod had a phenomenal impact on the Indian popular nationalist imagination through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

 

Wednesday 12th – 18th  Art Gallery (annexe) 11:00 – 19:00

 

A Mixed Palette

An exhibition of paintings by Sipra Dattagupta from Kolkata

 

Inauguration by Sir Mark Tully on Tuesday, 11th November at 18:30 hrs

 

Wednesday 12th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Book Discussion Group

 

Shri Inder Malhotra, Senior Journalist; and Prof. Gulshan Dietl, Jawaharlal Nehru University will discuss The Ultimate Prize: Oil and Saddam’s Iraq by Ranjit Singh Kalha (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2008)

 

Chair: Shri Jaswant Singh

 

Wednesday 12th ■ Conference Room – II at 18:30

 

Third Annual Discussion on State Parliamentary Democracy in India

Speakers: Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of Sociology, JNU; Prof. Peter d’Souza, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; and Shri Harish Khare, Resident Editor, The Hindu

 

Introduction: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

 

Friday 14th ■ Conference Room – II from 10:30 onwards

 

Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy 2008-2009

Main presentation by Dr. Nagesh Kumar, Director General, RIS

Discussant: Shri M.K. Venu, Senior Editor, The Economic Times

 

Chair: Dr. Shankar Acharya, eminent economist

 

(Collaboration: Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust)

Friday 14th ■from 11:00 – 13:30

 

Children’s Day at IIC

 

Conducted Nature Walk followed by screening of a cartoon film in the auditorium

 

For children and grandchildren of IIC Members and Staff between the ages of 4 to 12 years. Kindly register participation in advance to the IIC Nature Group. Children are requested to carry their own water bottles

 

Organised by the IIC Nature Group

 

Friday 14th ■Conference Room – II at 18:30

 

The Humanism of Jawaharlal Nehru

Speaker: Shri A.P. Saxena, noted Nehru scholar and author of the book Jawaharlal Nehru – The Spirit of Humanism

 

Chair: Shri Prakash Narain

 

(Collaboration: Indian Humanist Union)

 

 

Sunday 16th ■ Auditorium at 10:00

 

Carnatic Classical Music – Vocal and Instrumental

Presenting young upcoming artists from Delhi

 

Vocal recitals by Aditya Vikram, A. Anaka, and S. Ramanan

 

Violin recitals by G. Vasudevan, Anusha Sridhar, and Devi Mohan

 

(Collaboration: Gayathri Fine Arts)

 

Monday 17th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Understanding Network Terrorism Today

Speaker: Prof. Hussein Solomon, Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Director, Centre for International Political Studies & Head of the Unit for African Studies, Centre for International Political Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prof Solomon is currently Nelson Mandela Chair Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Shri I.P. Khosla

 

Tuesday 18th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Ancient Gandhara: Then and Now

An illustrated lecture by Dr. B.R. Mani, Jt. Director General, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Prof. R.C. Agarwal

 

Dr. Mani’s lecture will focus on archaeological sites in Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 19th ■ Conference Room – III (Annexe)  at 18:00

 

Putting Ideas First

 

Craft in the Age of Technology

Speaker: Ms Laila Tyabji, designer, writer, founder Member and Chairperson, DASTAKAR, a Society for Crafts & Craftspeople

 

(Collaboration: Craft Revival Trust)

 

Wednesday 19th ■ Auditorium at 18:30

 

The Culture of the former Feudatory States of Orissa

An illustrated lecture by Mr. Hermann Kulke, eminent scholar from Germany

 

(Collaboration: Odissi Akademi, Delhi)

 

 

Wednesday 19th ■ Conference Room – I at 18:30

 

Prevention of Ill Health

 

Prevention of Strokes

Speaker: Dr. P.K. Sethi, Neurologist, Sir Gangaram Hospital

 

First lecture in a new series being organised in collaboration with The Inclien Trust

 

Thursday 20th ■ Auditorium at 18:30

 

Hindustani Classical Music – Sarod Recital

By Sunando Mukherjee from Kolkata, senior disciple of  Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Accompanied by Gautam Pal on the tabla

 

 

Thursday 20th   ■ Conference Room – i at 18:30

 

Crisis in Sri Lanka

Speakers: Mr. Varadaraj Perumal; Dr. P. Sahadevan; and Shri Alok Bansal

 

Chair: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

 

 

 

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