Director: Umesh Aggrawal
Duration: 1 Hour

This is a film on coal mine fire. The film highlights the devastation caused by the coal mine fires and how the communities get uprooted.The film has won “The best environment film Award” at IFFI, Goa.

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• • • View Text  |  Invitation  |  Photographs Panel discussion “Absent bodies  – Present selves”  by Parul Dave Mukherji, Sheba Chhachhi and Mithu Sen in conversation with Gayatri Sinha on 11th March 2013 

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• Lecture demo by Dr. Subhadra Desai on “Songs of the Women Seers of India” at 5.00 pm to celebrate International women’s day on 8th March 2013
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• Lecture on “Dr. Ranganayaki Ayyangar – vocalist musicologist and Pedagogue” by Ms. Urmila Sharma, Sanskrit Scholar on 20th February 2013, Lecture Room, 11 Mansingh Road, New Delhi. Chairperson Dr. (Mrs.) Kapila Vatsyayan, Trustee, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts Trust
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Lecture demo by Dr. Subhadra Desai on “Songs of the Women Seers of India” at 5.00 pm to celebrate International women’s day on 8th March 2013

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The exhibition was inaugurated on 8th March, 2013 by Hon”ble Union Minister for Culture, Smt. Chandresh Kumari Katoch on the occasion of International Women’s Day celebrations at IGNCA. The exhibition comprises noted artist Sajitha Shankar’s paintings and drawings on archetypes and alterbodies. The section on archetypes showcases a series of works on Akka Mahadevi, the 12th century poet-saint from Karnataka and alterbodies explore diverse possibilities of body.

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Organised in collaboration with Bharat Kala Bhawan, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

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A National Seminar on Bhakti was organized on the 2nd March 2013 at VVS College for Women in co-ordination with the IGNCA SRC and Karnataka Sahithya Academy.Prof. S. Settar, Director (Hon.), IGNCA SRC, inaugurated the Seminar and the Principle of the college, Smt. Mangala Priyadarshini and Mr. Lakshmeesha Tolpadi were present on this occasion. Professor Krishnamurthy Hanur, G.B. Harish, O.L. Nagabhushanaswamy, P. Chandrika, K.G. Nagarajappa presented papers on various aspects of Bhakti and explained the role of Bhakti in Religion, day to day life, and its bearings on Spirituality and Rituals. The role of Women was also highlighted.

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 IGNCA SRC, in coordination with VVS College for Women, Basaveshwaranagar and Yaksha Siri (R) organized Girija Kalyana Yakshagana on 2nd March 2013. Mayuri Upadhyaya, Geetha Hegde Salkani, Niharika Bhat, Mamatha G, Jyothi Nayak, Kanchika Bhat performed. It was directed by A.P. Patak. Ravindrabhat Achive, Srinivasa Prabhu were accompanists.

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