Continued
from March - thursdays april 5, 12,19,26
6.30
to 8 pm -
Ananda Yoga classes by Claudio G.
friday
20th april 6.30
pm“The Modern Woman and Legal Awareness”
a talk by Seita Vaidialingam.
saturday
21st april
6.30
pm ‘The Tradition Continues’ an Odissi dance
performance by Sudha Mallik
monday
23rd april 6.30
pm IIC Auditorium
“Dehli
ki Aakhri Shama’” – a poetic re-enactment
of “The Last Mush’aira of Dehli”
Introduced
by Rakhshanda Jalil
saturday
28th april
‘dance
without frontiers festival’
6.30
pm ‘Odissi Chini Bhai-Bhai’ an Odissi dance
performance by Fei-Fei Yu
thursdays
april 5, 12,19,26
6.30
to 8 pm - Ananda Yoga classes by Claudio G.
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The
balance series of 4 Ananda Yoga classes which
started in March continues every Thursday
evening 6.30-8.00 till April 26 at a cost of Rs
1000 per person.
In
these classes, the following will be integrated:-
- Energization
exercises – a systematic method to increase
the flow of energy in all
the cells of the
body. Includes double breathing,relaxing
and tensing individual parts
-
Asana (yoga postures)
- Pranayama
(breathing exercises and energy-control techniques)
- Classical
yoga meditation techniques
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The
instructions will be presented in traditional Ananda
style of teaching yoga with
hints of yoga philosophy as taught by Paramhansa
Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda.
This gentle and highly effective approach
is suitable for all ages and body
types. It can be very
helpful for getting relaxed, revitalized
and uplifted.
Claudio Gregorelli is a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda
and for the past 15 years has been
a certified yoga teacher from the Ananda
Yoga School in California. Born Italian, he has
lived since 1986 at the international Ananda
Assisi retreat (Italy) coordinating and teaching
different Ananda Yoga courses and programs
on Kriya yoga meditation. He is presently
teaching at the Ananda Sangha ashram in
Gurgaon www.anandaindia.org.
Registration: call 2374 6050 or email: mina@theatticdelhi.org
or Surekha 9811330098.
Minimum number of participants 10.
friday
20th april
6.30
pm“The Modern Woman and Legal Awareness”
a talk by Seita Vaidialingam.Organized by The Culture
Club, Panchsheel at The Attic.
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The
modern Indian woman is educated and articulate,
but what does she know about her legal rights:
coparcenary laws, joint properties, ‘stridhan’
and the laws of inheritance, marriage and divorce.
Yet these laws effect her very being,
her existence in society as an equal. The Hindu
Code Bill of the 1950’s was
an extremely progressive piece of legislation
far ahead of such laws in the West. But even
educated Indian women today remain ignorant or
fearful of affidavits, HUF, maintenance, injunction and
what constitutes domestic abuse. Seita Vaidialingam
explains in simple language what a woman’s rights
are and what legal recourses she has.
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Seita
Vaidialingam is a Supreme Court Lawyer. Her field
of practice includes Constitutional,Civil, Matrimonial,
Tax, Property and Company Law Matters. She is an Advocate-on-Record
of the Supreme Court, a Salzburg of Law Fellow
and an American University Alumni. She is a third
generation lawyer daughter of Justice C.A.
Vaidialingam and grand-daughter of Sir C.V.Anantha
Iyer. She is a Committee Member of the Indo-American
Chamber of Commerce and on the governing Council of
FICCI.
saturday 21st april
6.30 pm ‘The
Tradition Continues’ an Odissi
dance performance by Sudha Mallik
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The
traditional Odissi repertoire begins with
a mangalacharan in which the dancer invokes
a deity,
in this case the beautiful dark goddess
Matangi holding the veena and intoxicated
by her
own charm and beauty. Sudha
then continues with the interpretation of
an Oriya song about
Radha and Krishna and an Ashtapadi
from the Gita Govinda and a pallavi showing
the joyous
display of rhythmic patterns in an original
music composition by Arindam Mukherjee and
choreographed by herself.
Sudha has been studying Odissi for 15 years
under Padmashree Smt. Madhavi Mudgal at the Gandharva
Mahavidyalaya. She has passed the “madhyama
poorna” examination in Odissi
dance and has toured extensively with
her Guru in India and abroad as part of
her dance
troupe. She has also attended workshops
conducted by Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra
and
Smt Leela Samson and taught a summer
workshop organized by the NDMC. She also
assists
her Guru in teaching younger students. This
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monday 23rd april
6.30
pm IIC Auditorium
“Dehli
ki Aakhri Shama’” –
a poetic re-enactment of “The
Last Mush’aira of Dehli”
Introduced
by Rakhshanda Jalil
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Sir
Sobha Singh Memorial Lectures on Delhi
This is the last in
the series of lectures and events encompassing
many facets of the life of Delhi- its history,
architecture, cuisine, music, environment,
and the arts. Co-sponsored by The Attic,
IIC and INTACH
A
mush’aira is a poetic symposium, a
soiree at which poets of the day read their
original works for pleasure. It is not an
easy form of entertainment, demanding full intellectual and emotional
participation
within the prescribed framework of aesthetic
conventions set by the masters long ago.
It offers opportunities for the
enjoyment of reciting and listening to selected
ghazal poetry. This is a fictional-historical
account of what might have been the last
great mush’aira in the court of the
last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
It is re-enacted this evening by faculty
of the Jamia Millia Islamia University.
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and directed by Rakhshanda Jalil, it is
based on the Urdu classic Dehli ki
Aakhri Shama by Farhatullah Baig. This
enactment shows in brief flashes a picture
of the culture, manners, pursuits and ideals
of the highly cultivated Mughal society
of the time and the flowering of both Urdu
and the ghazal form in the voices of
the greatest Urdu poets of the time Ghalib,
Momin, Zauq, Dagh and Prince Mirza Fakhru.
Mirza
Farhatullah Baig (1883 – 1948) was
educated at Delhi, Hindu and St.Stephens
College. He studied science, played
cricket and later became the Registrar of
the Hyderabad High Court. He wrote this
book to light the last lamp of Urdu poetry
and to honour and immortalize the Urdu poets
of the last days of Mughal splendour.
Rakhshanda
Jalil is Coordinator, Media & Culture
at the Jamia Millia Islamia. She also runs
a small organization called Hindustani
Awaaz to promote popular Hindustani literature,
and translates from Urdu and Hindi
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saturday28th
april
‘dance without frontiers festival’6.30
pm ‘Odissi Chini Bhai-Bhai’ an
Odissi dance performance by Fei-Fei Yu
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In
most parts of the world the rush to westernization
has led to the disappearance of most traditional cultures.
The kimono and the tea ceremony has almost disappeared
from Japan,the four hour Peking Opera has been
reduced to a half hour tourist attraction in China.
Only in India is there an unbroken tradition
still flourishing in music, dance and dress. Even
if it is out of their culture foreign students
are attracted to the ancient classical forms.
Fei-Fei is a trained dancer from China who is
working on her MA in Dance and learning Odissi
with Sharon Lowen during her scholarship in India.
She is a Kal-ke-Kalakar working intensively on
the
traditional repertoire of Odissi and will perform
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Mangalacharan, Pallavi ,
Ashtapadi and Mokkshya. And share her passion
for India and Indian dance that brought her from
China to absorb herself in a different Asian culture
than her own and the journey to Odissi.
Her Guru Sharon Lowen has learnt Manipuri from
Guru Singhajit Singh and Odissi from Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra
and has undertaken her own journey in dance from
the University of Michigan to Chhau, Manipuri
and Odissi in India.
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