THE IIC DOUBLE BILL DANCE RECITALS

 

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Divya Ravi from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Dr. Soundarya Srivatsa

 

AT 19:00

Odissi Recital

By Abhayalakshmi from Bangalore, disciple of Smt. Sharmila Mukherjee 

 

The evening will conclude with a dance duet of Bharatanatyam and Odissi by Divya Ravi and Abhayalakshmi

 

ON THE OCCASION OF GANDHI JAYANTI

 

The Music of the Charkha

A musical tribute celebrating Bapu’s life

 

Invocation by students of Springdales School

 

Followed by

Bhajans

By Rama Sundar

 

There will be a brief introduction on the symbolism of the Charkha followed by bhajans on the core values of Gandhiji

 

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya  International Trust, New Delhi Chapter)

 

A Dialogue of Rivers

 

 

 

River Dialogues

 

In conversation - Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University; Krupa Ge, author of Rivers Remember, editor & columnist; Minket Lepcha, award-wining filmmaker & director of Voices of Teesta; and Sarandha Jain author of In Search of Yamuna: Reflections on River Lost

 

 

 

A new series of talks and dialogues that hopes to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The series hopes to flow like tributaries into all other rivers like the Brahmaputra, Ganges, Narmada, Indus, Yamuna, Teesta, Gomti, Periyar, Krishna, Godavari, Sabarmati etc. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions. On opening of streams of thought and conversations for a future with exciting possibilities

 

 

 

First in a new series of quarterly river conversations conceptualised by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Journalism and Vice Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat

 

 

Kynmaw: to remember, memories, to take note, to bear in mind

 

Faces from Home 

An exhibition of portraits of women by Careen J. Langsteih from Shillong, Meghalaya

 

Bearing Witness

Cyanotype photographic prints by Conrad Syiem from Shillong, Meghalaya 

 

Preview on Friday, 27th September 2019 at 18:30

FILMS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Water Every Drop Counts (26 min; dvd; English) 

A short film on the world's most precious resource - water. With demand for water likely to double in the next two decades, it is the top priority of countries all round the world to conserve it. And yet in the name of development, countries around the world are fast depleting their water resources… 

 

The Hard Edge (30 min; dvd; English)  

The film focusses on the efforts of Southern African nations to preserve the Zambezi river system comprising of lagoons, lakes, wetlands and wildlife preserves. It focuses on the joint action plan of the Southern African nations sharing the Zambezi river to reconcile the needs of wildlife and people

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)