The short film is based on the story of the same name by legendary writer Munshi Prem Chand. It brings to the centre the system of education and examinations.The light-hearted comic tale overflows with humor but is laced with an undercurrent of irony.
(30 minutes, Hindi)

Ravi Kalra : Rebirth of a Shravan Kumar

The 25 minute Documentary focuses on the efforts of a person who takes care of the abandoned and destitute. (25 minutes, Hindi)
Director : Kripi Singh

IGNCA, RC is going to  organize in Collaboration with Bharat Adhyayan Kendra, BHU

 Speaker  :

1. Smt. Malini Avasthi  (Centennial Chair Professor, Bharat Adhyayan Kendra, BHU)
2. Sri Amitabh Bhattachary (Senior Journalist, Amrit Prabhat Hindi Dainik, Varanasi)
3. Prof. Chandrakala Tripathi (Department of Hindi, Women’s College, BHU)

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Contact No  : 23388333, 23388362

The second Dr. V. S. Wakankar Memorial Lecture “Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar: The Legendary Encyclopaedia of Indian Rock Art” was delivered by Padmashree Dr. Yashodhar Mathpal, Eminent Archaeologist and Rock Art Specialist.

Chairperson : Dr. Narayan Vyas, Rock Art & Cultural Studies Specialist

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(Based on IGNCA’s Dr. Mathpal Collection)

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IGNCA, RC, is going to organize Memorial Lecture on Pt. Ramavatar Sharma

Topic : “Pandit Ramavatar Sharma Aur Unka Pramarthadarshanam”
Speaker : Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi, (Former Vice Chancellor, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi)
Chair Person : Prof. K. D. Tripathi (Centennial Chair Prof., Bharat Adhyayan Kendra, BHU)
Guest of Honor : Prof. Shri Kishore Mishra (Department of Sanskrit, Faculty of Arts, BHU)

Two Days National Seminar on “Ramayana Traditions of North-East: with special reference to Majuli” and Shastra and Prayoga Programme on “Performative traditions of Ramayana”

Time : Seminar — 10.00 am to 5.30 pm and Performances — 6.00 pm onwards
Contact No :  011-23388224/011-23388063

International Conference is organized by East Asia Programme Unit, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India, in collaboration with Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies, Cambridge, London, UK.

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Contact No.  : 011-23388211

Innaugration : 28th March, 2018 at 10.30 am in the IGNCA Auditorium, C.V. Mess, Janpath, New Delhi

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•  Angkor Wat Brochure | Report

Under the Outreach initiative, “the IGNCA Book Circle”, Kala Nidhi Reference Library organises a Book Reading Session every month.This month, the session will be held on 26th March, 2018 (Monday) at 4.00 pm

Book Reading cum launch session of `The Making of Early Kashmir – Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini’ by Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural historian of early South Asia specialising in working with Sanskrit literature. She has also been the Dinakar Singh Distinguished Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Yale University, U.S.A, and the Jan Gonda Fellow in Indology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Her books include: Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India (Permanent Black and Seagull with University of Chicago Press, 2010), Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader (Orient BlackSwan, 2013), and The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini (Oxford University Press, 2018)

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Contact:  011-23385884/ 9958878920

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Topic : Surya – Sidhanta Ka Vishva-Ganit Par Prabhava
Speaker :  Acharya Vinay Jha
(Advisor, Akhil Bharatiya Vidwat Parishad, Kashi)
Chair Person : Acharya Kameshvar Upadhyaya
(Rashtriya Mahasachiv, Akhil Bharatiya Vidwat Parishad, Kashi)

By Dr. B.R. MANI Director General, National Museum

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17th March, 2018 at 11.00am : Concert by Ms. Padmini Dora of Odisha under Sanjari – a monthly folk music concert series  – E-Invite

17th March, 2018 at 6.30pm : Concert by Sunanda Sharma under the Bhinn Shadj – a quarterly rare ragas series – E-Invite

18th March, 2018 at 11.00am : Concert by Prof. Chandanshive of Maharashtra on “Lavani ki Baithak” under Sanjari – E-Invite

Contact No. :  011-23388155

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In collaboration with Patna Museum ,Patna, Bihar

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This exhibition has been extended from 09/04/2018 to 15/04/2018