Haveli Dharampura

An exhibition on the restoration and conservation of the two-hundred year old haveli, located in Gali Guliyan, Chandni Chowk which has recently received the prestigious 2017 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation Award

 Inauguration by Shri Prakash Javadekar,Hon'ble Minister for Human Resource Development,GOI and Shri Vijay Goel,Minister of State Parliamentary Affairs on Wednesday, 16th May 2018 at 10.00am

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Verdi and the Father Complex

An illustrated lecture by Prof Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at JNU and a lover of western classical music 

 

A running thread in much of the work of the Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi is the complex relationship between father and child. The lecture will explore on how that complexity is expressed musically in some of his most famous operas, like La Traviata, Rigoletto and Don Carlo

 

Chair: Prof  Partho Datta, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU 

Fiscal Federalism in India: Finance Commissions, Niti Aayog and the GST Council

Speaker: Shri V. Srinivas, IAS, Chairman, Board of Revenue for Rajasthan and Chairman, Rajasthan Tax Board, Ajmer

Chair: Dr. Sudipto Mundle, Emeritus Professor and Member of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi; former member of the Fourteenth Finance Commission
 

 

The lecture will focus on the impact of the implementation of the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission on the development programmes of States, the working of GST councils as a notable example of cooperative federalism and the impact of Niti Aayog. It will also identify the challenges before the 15th Finance Commission as an instrument for strengthening Fiscal Federalism in India

 

Contemporary Art from Afghanistan

An exhibition of paintings in water colour and oils by a group of artists from Afghanistan led by Mohammad Salim Attaie from Kabul 

 

Preview on Tuesday, 22nd May 2018 at 18:30

THE IIC  DOUBLE BILL CONCERT 

 

Sitar Recital

By Adnan Khan from Delhi, disciple of  Bandish Nawaz Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan

 

Followed by

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Bishnumurari Chatterjee from Delhi, disciple of Smt Purobi Chatterjee and Prof Subhash Chakladar