IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This Month Dr. Alka Pandey and Dr. Aditi Anand read from book Indian Modernity: The Aesthetics of Brij Mohan Anand. The book primarily deals with the life and beliefs of the artists illustrator and socialist Shri Brij Mohan Anand.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Shri Nirmal Kumar will read from his book Vyas-Vishnu-Rupaye.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. Due to Rakshabandhan and Janmashtami Holidays on 3rd and 4th Thursday respectively, Book circle is being held on 2nd Thursday i.e. 11th August, 2016. Dr. Suchita Malik will read from her book Women Extraordinaire.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. Oma sharma is a noted Hindi writer. He has published six books that include two collections of short stories, namely ‘Bhavishyadrista’ (भविष्यदृष्टा) and ‘Karobaar’ (कारोबार). Besides, he is widely known in India for translating the autobiography of Stefan Zweig ‘The world of yesterday’ in Hindi titled ‘Vo Gujra Zamaana’ (वो गुजरा जमाना). Adab Se Muthbhed, (अदब से मुठभेड़) his book by way of literary encounters with Legends like Rajendra yadav, Mannoo Bhandari, Priyamvad, Shiv murti and M F Husain has been hugely appreciated for its critical probing. He has just published his travel diaries titled ‘Antaryatrayen :Via Vienna’ ( अन्तरयात्राएं: वाया वियना ) which records a long, never before attempted kind of essay about Stefan Zweig, Vienna and the cultural aspect of Austria.
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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Mr. Ashwini Bhatnagar will read from his book The High Bouncing Lover. Ashwini Bhatnagar is an experienced journalist and currently Editor in Chief of Writeconnectindia.com which promotes leisure reading habits through a digital platform. The High Bouncing Lover is his fourth book and his first novel. Another novel Where the Light Enters will be released in July. It is being published by a Singapore based publisher.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Dr.Ganga Prasad Vimal will read from the Book Manushkhor. Dr.Vimal worked as Professor at Centre of Indian Languages. He received many awards and honors in many countries for literature and culture. Presently Dr.Vimal is working as Chief Literary Advisor for Argalaa Magazine.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Shri Dinesh Khanna, Associate Professor will read from the book Abhinay Chintan. This book explains the theory of Stanislavski, Grotowski and Aarto. Shri Khanna has been teaching in National School of Drama for last 20 years. He is Writer, Director and teaching plays in Bulgaria, Romania, Sri Lanka, Australia and China.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Ms. Sukrita Paul Kumar will read from her book of poems Dream Catcher. The poems in this volume come from her sojourn in China, her contact with the snowy winter of Minnesota, the experience of the city forest of Jahanpanah and other imaginary terrains triggered off from the real stories of Tsunami devastation etc…or sieved from her memory of some odd dream-like reality. Sukrita Paul Kumar, born in Kenya, lives currently in Delhi, writing poetry and teaching literature. An Honorary Fellow of the prestigious International Writing Programme, University of Iowa (USA), Cambridge Seminars and a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she was also an invited poet in residence at Hong Kong Baptist University, China. Honorary faculty at the Durrell Centre at Corfu (Greece) and a recipient of many international fellowships and residencies, she has published several collections of poems in English that include Dream Catcher, Without Margins, Apurna, Folds of Silence and Oscillations. A number of Sukrita’s poems have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people, Tsunami victims and street children.

IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Dr. Jagdish Kaur will read from her book Arunachal Pradesh : Rediscovering Hinduism in the Himalayas. Dr Jagdish Kaur is a medical professional and public health expert. She is working with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India for the last more than twenty five years in various capacities. She has extensive experience in health policies and programmes of the Government.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Prof Susan Visvanathan will read from her book The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi. The book addresses the question of devotion and community life with respect to Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. It seeks to understand mysticism, transcendence and detachment within a historical perspective, looking at narratives from a feminist perspective. Prof Susan Visvanathan teaches Sociology at Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, Delhi. She is the author of The Christians of Kerala, and also a well known writer of literary fiction. Susan Visvanathan was Fellow at NMML, Delhi and at IIAS, Shimla and MSH, Paris She was SASNET Fellow at Lund University and Charles Wallace Fellow at Belfast.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This Month Esther David will read from her book Book of Rachel. Esther David is an Indian author who lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Her novels are based on the Jewish experience in India. She weaves her stories around the Bene Israel Jewish community of India. Esther David has received the Sahitya Akademi award for 2010 for English Literature from the Government of India. The novel is about the old who have been left behind in India by families, which immigrated to Israel. She deals with the pervading sense of isolation, by trying out an ancient recipe every day.Rachel’s story is woven around love,longing,recipes and the Jewish heritage in India.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Dr. Tarannum Riyaz will read from her book Barf-Aashnaa Parindey.

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Prof. H.S. Shivprakash will read from his latest publication Everyday Yogi (Harper Collins,New Delhi 2014). He is a Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, JNU, New Delhi .He is author of 9 books of poems, 15 plays and 3 critical works in Kannada. Widely discussed his plays have been performed and translated into several Indian languages and into English, French, Italian, Spanish and German.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Prabhu Ghate will read from his book By Thumb, Hoof and Wheel :Travels in the Global South. Prabhu Ghate is an independent researcher and journalist interested in issues of rural development and microfinance.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Nitoo Das will read from her book titled Boki (Virtual Artists Collective, Chicago, 2008). Nitoo Das is a birder, caricaturist and poet. Her first collection of poetry, Boki, was published in 2008. Das’s PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University dealt with constructions of the Assamese Identity under the British. Das teaches literature at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi.

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Under the Outreach initiative the IGNCA Book Circle has a monthly event held on the fourth Thursday of every month.  This month Prof. Sheoraj Singh Bechain will read from his autobiography Mera Bachpan Mere Kandhon par which is remarkable writing published by Vani Prakashan. Prof Sheoraj is teaching in Hindi Department of Delhi University.He has been awarded Sahitya Bhushan, Uttar Pradesh,Hindi Sansthan Lucknow .Prof. Kalicharan from Hindi Department of Lucknow University will moderate the Session.  

IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. Under the Outreach initiative the IGNCA Book Circle has a monthly event held on the fourth Thursday of every month. This month, Ms. Anuradha Marwah, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi University will present three novels The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta (1993), Idol Love (1999), and Dirty Picture (2007) and three plays Margins (first performed in 2008), A Pipe Dream in Delhi (first performed in 2009, published in 2012) and Sarkari Feminism (first performed in 2010) – all of which have women protagonists.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. Under the Outreach initiative the IGNCA Book Circle has a monthly event held on the fourth Thursday of every month. This month The One -Eyed Chick and other stories (a book on life in Odisha) By Basanth Kumar Satpathy, edited by Bikram K Das & Sumanyu Satpathy. Sumanyu Satpathy will read from the book The One Eyed Chick and other Stories, This will be followed by a discussion on the book or the subject. Professor Sumanyu Satpathy is Head of Department of English, University of Delhi, India, besides teaching, researching and publishing, has also been involved in several administrative and decision-making bodies. He has taught in tribal areas in India at the tertiary level in various universities and colleges in India and abroad

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library – Sung in a sensual style by Ms. Rekha Surya, one of the few practitioners of the Lucknow Gharana of North Indian music, She has kept alive traditional ghazal-gayaki and preserved the legacy of her legendary guru Begum Akhtar by propagating this art at prestigious concert and lecture venues in India and abroad. Having also honed her skills under tutelage of another legend, Girija Devi of Benaras gharana, she has combined both styles of singing into an individualistic style.

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. Dr. Alka Tyagi would read from both the collections, Whispers at the Ganga Ghat and from Amaltas. Dr. Alka Tyagi is Associate Professor in English Dept. at Dyal Singh (eve) College, University of Delhi. She has a doctoral degree on the subject, Inter-semiotic Transformations: A Study of the Poetry of Two Medieval Saints, Akka Mahadevi and Andal from School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi. Her English poetry collection, Whispers at the Ganga Ghat (2014) has been published by Mark Media, New Delhi. Two collections of her Hindi poems called Sun Ri Sakhi (2009) and Amaltas (2014) have been published by Surya Prakashan Mandir,Bikaner and Ka- Kala,Sampada evam Vaichariki respectively .