beyond the established norms of musical key structures altogether, in their experiments with tonality, timbre, texture and time. Later composers took such experimentation even further.

In this illustrated talk, Dr Punita Singh will focus on some of the startling developments that took place in 20th century music, leading to a complete paradigm shift in the way sounds were put together to express thought and feeling.

A special tribute will be paid to Arnold Schoenberg, whose contribution to music remains relatively unacknowledged, despite having changed the course of music making and listening forever.

Punita is a musicologist, linguist, psychoacoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi. Special areas of interest and expertise include Christian sacred music, music of the Renaissance, twentieth-century music, Flamenco, and contrastive aspects of Indian and Western classical music.

friday 19th october
7 to 8.30 pm – ‘A Circle of Equals’ – a talk by Dr. Robert Fuller at 179 Golf Links.

The question is, which is the best way to structure a corporation, a society or even a country? The currently accepted structure is the Weberian model of a rigid hierarchy with a top-down approach and the management structure that has historically evolved is one of squares, boxes and pyramids. But we forget that the world is round and an international trend is emerging over a different style - participatory, circular management. Decisions are not imposed from the outside but generated from within and the CEO is at the

centre – coordinating, rather than at the top looking down. Leadership, authority responsibility and decision making is shared equally. In his ground breaking works Dr. Fuller has identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dared to protest: rankism - the abuse of power to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank. This would include every form of social oppression – racism, sexism, homophobia and religious intolerance. Dr Robert Fuller talks this evening about this new management style. He is an international authority on the topic of rankism, abusive, discriminatory or exploitative behavior and is in the forefront of the dignity movement which aims to overcome rank based abuse. He is a PhD from Princeton and has taught at Columbia University. He was a consultant to Indira Gandhi after the Bangladesh war and was later instrumental in convincing Jimmy Carter to establish the Presidential Commission on World Hunger. In his lifetime he has been a ‘somebody’ and a ‘nobody’ leading to his 2 books ‘Somebodies and Nobodies – overcoming the abuse of rank’ and ‘Somebodies, Nobodies and the Politics of Dignity’. This talk is organized by the Viveka Foundation at 179 Golf Links. Tea and biscuits will be served at 6.30. If he is in the mood, Susmit Bose, urban folk singer and songwriter, will open the evening with a few songs.

Apart from being an excellent practitioner of Dhrupad style of singing Tansen was an excellent composer, too. The Raags he created have not just stood the test of time, but also reveal a rare musical genius far ahead of his times. Raags like Miya ki Todi, Miya ki Saarang, Miya ki Malhar, Darbari Kanada are some of his priceless creations.

This evening is a special tribute to Miya Tansen. It consists of a recital of two of his greatest creations, Miya ki Malhar (the King of Monsoon Raags - a fusing of Raag Darbari Kanada and Raag Malhar) and Darbari Kanada (a raag dedicated to Akbar’s court)

Jay Thakkar has trained in classical Indian vocal and on the Bamboo flute with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. He is a BA in Architecture and has performed as a professional flautist in theatres, colleges, cultural centres, temples, planetariums in solo performances and with Hariprasad Chaurasia. He lives, works and performs mainly in Bombay.