Safdar-Janam Talks: Vidya Rao on music and gender

Jana Natya Manch

1973 — 1989 — 2009

The Safdar Janam Talks on Culture and Politics

This year, to observe 20 years of Safdar's death, as well as 35 years of our work, Janam will organize a series of talks, one every month, each focusing on the complex and critical interconnections between culture and politics. The talks will be followed by a discussion on the issues thrown up.  The fourth of these is:

"Music and Gender"

a talk by Vidya Rao

23 April 2009

6..00 p.m.

4, Bishambhar Das Marg (directions below)

 

A disciple of the late Smt. Naina Devi, vidya Rao is a leading exponent of thumri-dadra singing. She has lectured in several universities, and she has published extensively on the subject. She is a publisher by profession.

Directions: Come to Gol Dak Khana (not Gol Market!), take Pandit Pant Marg, and look out for the first right turn. This is Bishambhar Das Marg. We are in 4 B.D. Marg, which is the second bungalow on the left with Hannan Mollah's name on it.

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Poems for palestine, 17 april

As part of the Persistence/Resistance festival, Jana Natya Manch presents

UJLE SAFED KABOOTAR
kuchh nazmein philisteen ke naam

Palestine, the land that nurtured three great religions, a land ravaged by a brutal occupation and seemingly perpetual war, the land of a heroic people. The reading starts with a song on Palestine by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and a poem by the Somalian poet Safi Abdi. The centrepiece of the reading is the poem 'Under Siege' by Palestine's best-known poet, Mahmoud Darwish, who died last year. This is a deeply moving, sometimes philosophical, sometimes trenchant, poem that reasserts the basic human values of love, understanding, dignity and self-respect. The reading concludes with excerpts from Nizar Qabbani, Syria's greatest poet. The reading is accompanied by a visual essay by filmmaker and designer Sherna Dastur.

 

Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Safi Abdi, Mahmoud Darwish and Nizar Qabbani
Translations by Brijesh
Images by Sherna Dastur
Poetry read by Brijesh and Sudhanva

Directed by Sudhanva Deshpande

 

17 April, 6.30 p.m., IIC Main Auditorium
No tickets or invitation required. All are welcome.

Jana Natya Manch is a Delhi-based group, best known for its political theatre. Visit www.jananatyamanch.org.