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Director: Gulshan Walia Duration :59.58 minutes

Watch this docudrama to have fair knowledge of life and culture of Punjabis and their literature. Kissa – may be called a romantic ballad or a Masnavi in Persian, is a tragic story of love, velour, betrayal, passion, adventure etc, which is an important part of Punjabi literature. The literary genre, which dates back to medieval times, has been much popular in the Punjab. Besides reference to the main Kissas, like Heer-Ranjha, Sohini- Mahiwal, watch the brief enactment of “Sassi–Pannu”, written by Hashim Shah.

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• Announcing Lecture series at IGNCA during the exhibition Drawn from Light: Early Photography and the Indian Sub-continent
  

  29 August 2014, Friday     Title: The Archive as Object and Practice

  13 September 2014, Saturday  Title: The Making of a Visual History Archive: Selections from the Photography Collection of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

  26 September 2014, Friday  Title: Disciplining the Archive: Practices in Art and Pedagogy

  Venue: IGNCA, Auditorium, C. V. Mess, Janpath, New Delhi
  Time: 6-7 pm

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Workshop: To commemorate the bi-centenary of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal of Travancore, IGNCA SRC is organizing a two day workshop of compositions of the Maharaja in association with the Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha on 4th and 5th September 2014 by Shri Rama Varma, eminent Carnatic musician and descendent of the Travancore royal family.

In commemoration of the 170th Death Anniversary of the renowned Hungarian Scholar and ‘Father of Tibetology’ Alexander Csoma de Kőrős (1784-1842) the 7th International Symposium will be held from September 4th and 5th 2014 in IGNCA, New Delhi, India. New researches and recent developments in the field of Tibetan & Buddhist Studies are to be presented and discussed, taking into consideration in particular the collection of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs of Alexander Csoma de Kőrős.

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This month we will have the participation of young writers form CBSE schools. These young writers are Tanessa Pri-Reflection (a book on poetry) and Sahil Bansal-Inkspire (an art magazine). Exciting works of fiction, non-fiction and those of academic interest will be showcased through readings, panel discussions and informal conversations. The aim is to tap into the rich intellectual wealth of Delhi and the IGNCA, and bridge the divide between the reader and writer in the wonderful setting of the IGNCA Library.

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Director : Dr.G.S.Raina
Duration: 32 minutes

India has a great tradition of paintings.Important artistic Centres got established in Tanjavur, Nathdwara (Rajasthan) and Vrindavan (Uttar Pradesh) and other parts of the country over the centuries. A distinctive feature of this painting tradition is the use of Gold leafs in the mythological and other contemporary works. The documentary explores this tradition of Indian paintings.

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Shri Yatindra Mishra, famous poet & critic of Hindi Literature.

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