The Spiritual Gold – Banaras

An exhibition of paintings – abstracts,  oil on canvas 

By Anand Narain from Delhi

 

Preview on Tuesday, 20th August 2019 at 18:30

FILMS OF THE SPIRIT

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The River (99 min; 1951; dvd; English sub-titles)

Director: Jean Renoir

 

Recipient of the Top 10 Film Awards for Best Film, Cahiers du Cinema 1951; NBR Award for Top Foreign Film, National Board of Review, USA 1951; and International Award, Venice Film Festival 1951

 

Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, "A story based on the immemorial themes of childhood, love and death," is how the French director Jean Renoir described the Bengal-set The River, his lyrical account of a British teenage girl's romantic awakening during the last years of the Raj. Shot in exquisite Technicolour on the banks of the Ganges, it's a wonderfully serene film which is filled with vivid images of nature and which displays a warm curiosity towards Hindu customs

 

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

 

Love without a Story

Poetry readings from Love Without a Story by Arundhati Subramaniam

 

Introductory comments: Keki N. Daruwalla, poet and novelist; and Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, essayist and critic

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul, President, The Poetry Society (India)

 

A collection of poems that celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence

 

Arundhati Subramaniam is an award-winning author of twelve books of poetry and prose. Widely translated and anthologised, her last volume of poetry, When God is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize

 

(Collaboration:  The Poetry Society, India )

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Crucial Gaps in Delivering Health Care – What’s Done? What’s Ignored?

Speaker: Smt Shailaja Chandra, former Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and former Chief Secretary, Delhi

 

Discussants: Ms K. Sujatha Rao, former Health Secretary, Govt. of India; and Dr. Anand Krishnan, Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

 

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

Martyrdom to Freedom: 100 Years of Jallianwala Bagh

Discussion around the new book Edited by Rajesh Ramachandran (New Delhi: Rupa Publications India, 2019)

Discussants: Shri H.K. Dua, Senior Journalist and former Member Rajya Sabha; Prof. Salil Misra, Dean, School of Liberal Studies,Ambedkar University; and Dr. Y.P. Anand, Chairman, GODHULI & former Director, National Gandhi Museum & Library

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC