Events Archives
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Lecture on ‘People-Nature-Culture: Festivals of Sunderbans’ by Dr. Suptendu P. Biswas
Date: 15th January 2020
Time: 4.30 pm
Location: Multipurpose Hall, INTACH, New DelhiIt gives us great pleasure to invite you to the lecture. Culture with its material and non-material elements reflects the way of life. Social practices surrounding the festive events also help in structuring the formation of communities and social groups and, to a great extent, are points of convergence for otherwise divisive societies or its disparate members. Over a period, such practices also evolve and contribute to the ‘intangible’ cultural heritage of a place.
Based on a research conducted under the Senior Fellowship of Ministry of Culture, Government of India, the context of the presentation is situated in the Indian part of the Sundarbans, covering about one-third of the total area of the Sundarbans with the rest falling in Bangladesh. The largest mangrove belt of the world, the whole zone was declared as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1987.
The presentation will discuss festivals of the Sundarbans to understand how people and nature interact inseparably to shape culture of the place. Over time, symbols, rituals and icons from different religions have been included and appropriated to make new folk divinities. Social co-existence of religious groups has been strengthened by mutual cultural exchanges and syncretic influences. Occupational similarity requiring close contact with nature and high risks associated with it has encouraged people from different religions to come together to seek divine help. The ‘culture of festivals’ in the Sundarbans is and historically has been founded upon the negotiations, the community has with the nature around.
Dr. Suptendu P. Biswas is an architect, urban designer and planning professional, involved in consultancy, teaching, research and writing for almost three decades. He works on overlapping fields: design & planning of built environment, urban services, landscape urbanism, heritage and social & cultural studies. His multi-faceted works have been presented, published and exhibited in India and abroad. He has worked as a key consultant for Jaipur Smart city project and taught as a visiting faculty member in post-graduation courses at SPA-Delhi. He is a member of Doctoral Review Committee of SPA-Bhopal and one of the founder trustees of SEARCH, a Kolkata-based charitable trust working on urban sustainability and related spheres. His critically acclaimed book, ‘Assorted City’, was shortlisted among the best five urban writings in 2016-17. He also co-edited ‘Blue Lines of Kolkata’, a book on ideas and proposals on canals in Kolkata. He was a recipient of prestigious Senior Fellowship from Ministry of Culture, Government of India, under which he researched on festivals of the Sundarbans.
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Talk on ‘Exploring India’s Great Heritage’ by Amish Tripathi
Date: 28th August 2020
Time: 5.30 pm IST
Live streaming: YouTubeIt gives us great pleasure to invite you to the interactive talk with Amish Tripathi at https://www.youtube.com/c/intachevents
Amish is a diplomat, author and columnist. He published his first book in 2010, and has written 8 books till date. His books have sold 5.5 million copies, and have been translated into 10 Indian and 9 international languages. Amish was been listed among the 50 most powerful Indians by India Today magazine in 2019. Forbes India has regularly ranked Amish among the top 100 most influential celebrities in India. He was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow, a prestigious American programme for outstanding leaders from around the world in 2014.
Amish is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and worked for 14 years in the financial services industry before turning to writing. He took over as the Director of The Nehru Centre in London in October 2019.
No registration is required for the event.
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Lecture on ‘Combating the Pandemic with Ancient Indian knowledge systems’ by Dr. Shruti Poddar
Date: 22nd May 2021
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live streaming: YouTube
(No registration is required for the event.)It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the online lecture by Dr. Shruti Poddar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lavj6lf_cE
The human being is a marvel of the universe with unique abilities. Ancient wisdom has provided us with tools and techniques of using earthly substances, vision, breath, sound and other faculties to transform the body, mind and consciousness. This lecture will provide powerful tools from Indic sciences and wisdom, for holistically combating the present condition!
Dr. Shruti Nada Poddar is a pioneer of the NADA VIBRONICS – a Nada Yogic Wellness Ecosystem based on Indic Vibrational Yogic Science. She has taught and influenced 15000 teachers in integral education. She regularly gives talks and conducts workshops on various subjects ranging from leadership through Vedas, Upanishads and the Bhagawad Gita to scientific explorations of music and ancient Indian sound for cure of diseases.
Shruti Poddar founded the Shruti Foundation in 2007, a research and charitable foundation for promoting education, wellness and healthcare, value based leadership and advocacy with a special focus on indigenous knowledge systems and science.
She is also the Convener of INTACH for three districts of Rajasthan – Sikar, Churu and Jhunjhunu.
In peace and health,
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Lecture on ‘Explore the Relationship between Breath and Mind’ by Apoorva Gupta Jalanon
Date: 21st June 2021
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live Streaming: YouTube
(No registration is required for the event.)Tatah ksiyate prakasa avaranam
Pranyama removes the veil covering the light of knowledge and brings in the dawn of wisdom.
On the occasion of ‘International Yoga Day’ it gives me great pleasure to invite you to the online talk by Apoorva Gupta Jalan at https://youtu.be/1Abnxy0wUno
Breath, as per the Patanjali Yoga Sutra is Ananta, endless. It is the source for life itself. It has a deep relationship with the body and the mind and is the very thread that links the two.
In this talk we will understand what the breath really is and how can we use the breath to reach ourselves in ways that enables health, well-being, and mental and emotional stability. Apoorva will share insights from Indic texts such as the Yoga Sutra, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Yoga Rahasya, to reflect on the breath.
Apoorva gave up her career as a marketing executive in New York City to move back to India in 2005 to pursue her passion for Yoga. She has trained and worked extensively in the tradition of Krisnamacharya for more than a decade now. She teaches yoga with the intention of helping people experience personal transformation and growth through simple practices.
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Talk on ‘Genealogies of the Folk and the Tribal’
by Dr. Annapurna GarimellaDate: 3rd August 2021
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live Streaming: YouTube
(No registration is required for the event.)It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the online talk by Dr. Annapurna Garimella at https://youtu.be/FVQPUS-rD5I
This talk looks at Indic and Indian ideas about the folk and the tribal. Looking at materials from the pre-modern period to the present, Dr. Annapurna Garimella, an art historian and a designer, presents visual and literary examples of when these categories were imagined and institutionalized into everyday life of kingdoms, communities and the nation.
Her research focuses on late medieval Indic architecture and the history and practices of vernacular visual and built cultures in India after Independence. She is the Managing Trustee of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, a not-for-profit organization, which is a research library dedicated to art, architecture, design and craft histories. She also heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organization with a specialized portfolio of design, research and curation
Her newest book is a co-edited Marg volume titled ‘The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History’ (2019) and her upcoming edited volume is titled ‘The Long Arc of South Asian Art: A Reader in Honor of Vidya Dehejia’ (New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021). Currently, her book manuscript under preparation is ‘Digesting the Past: The Discourse of Sacralized Architectural Renovation in Southern India’ (14th-17th Centuries).
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Lecture on ‘Cultural Loss from Modern Agricultural Practices’ by Dr. Vandana Shiva
Date: 28th August 2021
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live Streaming: YouTube(No registration is required for the event.)
Dear Friends,
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the online lecture with Dr. Vandana Shiva. The link for the lecture is provided below.
https://www.youtube.com/live/voN7UN8pRzE?si=2LO9ECNvd-kMteLQ
The talk will bring out the interconnectedness between biodiversity and cultural diversity, and how the industrial agriculture (referred to as “modern”) has destroyed both biodiversity and cultural diversity with very high costs to the planet’s health in terms of climate catastrophes, floods and draughts, and people’s health with the rise of infectious diseases and chronic diseases.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author. She has written more than 20 books on related subjects and is often referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with anti-GMO movement.
