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  16th May
Time:
7:00 pm

Dance - Odissi Recital by Lekha Mohanty.

 
       
  16th May
Time:
7:00 pm

Book Club - reads from Amitav Ghosh’s “Glass Palace”

 
       
  17th May
Time:
6:30 pm

Play -Ruchika Theatre Group presents “Chehere”, Hindi adaptation of Inge’s prizewinning play ‘Come Back, Little Sheba.’ The play looks behind marital bliss and comes up with nightmarish truths.  Dir. Feisal Alkazi. The cast includes Mona Chawla, Keshav Anand, Smita Mazumdar, Ali Abbas, Nandita Chandra, Ajay Soni and Parvesh  Sayani among others.  Tickets at Rs. 100 & 50 available from 12th onwards.

 
       
  18th May
Time:
10:00 am

IHC Walk - Art Historian Deeksha Nath walks us through the Jewellery Gallery at the National Museum on Janpath. We meet at the ticket counter.

 
       
  18th May
Time:
6:30 pm
Play -Ruchika Theatre Group repeats  “Chehere”.  
       
  18th May
Time:
7:00 pm
PLAY - Adarsh Kalamanch presents their comedy, “Zaroorat Hai Shrimati Ki” Dir. Mohd. Yusuf  Tkts at R 300, 200 and 100/- available from 10th onwards.  
       
  19th May
Time:
7:00 pm

Dance - Pallavi Krishnan disciple of   Guru Kalamandalam Sankaranarayanan, Bharati Shivaji and Kalamandalam K Shemavarthy, presents a Mohiniattam Recital in The HCL Concert Series.

 
       
  20th May
Time:
7:00 pm

Music - Smt. Malati Gilani, senior disciple of the Late Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan,  presents an evening of Khayal  in The HCL Concert Series.

 
       
  21st May
Time:
7:00 pm
Documentary Film -Sarjana Films presents “Searching for Saraswati”,(Eng. Beta 62 mins, 2003) a film by Sudheer Gupta shot during the 40 days of the Mahakumbha Festival 2001 at Allahabad. The filmmaker will be present at the screening.  
       
  22nd May
Time:
7:00 pm

Talk -Nashist features eminent Hindi poetess Gagan Gill. Collab: Impresario Asia.

 
       
  22nd May
Time:
7:00 pm
Music - “Music of the Spirit” – to mark the launch of his new album Sanjay Talwar presents a Concert of bhajans, geets and ghazals.  
       
  23rd May
Time:
6.30 pm

Talk - Enriching Rural India: Success Stories that made it possible: Joe Madiath, Director  Gram Vikas Orrisa speaks on “Self-sustaining and self-spreading model of Rural Sanitation and drinking water as a trigger for all round development of Rural Community”. Collab: CAPART

 
       
  23rd May
Time:
7.00 pm
Theatre - Actors’ company presents “Offending the Audience” by Peter Handke directed by Kavita Puri and Shankar Arora . By speaking directly to the audience, the actors set up an arena of conflict that extends beyond the stage. Piece by piece, the traditional dynamics of theatre and the audience are torn apart and in the process, some very pertinent questions about how we see the theatre, and through extension,  the aesthetic principles of art, are raised.  
       
  23rd May
Time:
7.00 pm
Dance - Kalaikoodam presents original choreographic compositions in  Bharatanatyam   by Smt Komala Varadan. Subha Sampat, disciple of Smt. Varadhan will present a few pieces choreographed by her guru.  
       
  24th May
Time:
7.15 pm

Play - Uddeshya presents their new Comedy : “Nayi Sabhyata Naye Namoone” Writer: Dr. Shankar Shesh, Director: Ajay Kataria. Tkts Rs. 100/- & 50/- avl

 
       
  24th May
Time:
7:00 pm
Music - Kalaikoodam presents a Carnatic Flute recital by the Maestro Dr. N. Ramani. He will be accompanied by his  grandsons and disciples R.Atul Kumar and T. Suresh. They will be accompanied by Kumbakonam Padmanabhan on the mridangam and KLNSastry on the violin.  
       
  25th May
Time:
7:15 pm

Play - Uddeshya repeat “Nayi Sabhyata Naye Namoone”.

 
       
  25th May
Time:
7:00 pm
Music -”Chunar Mori Maili”- Concert of Sufiana Qawwali by Haji Aslam Sabri.  Collab: Impresario Asia.  
       
  26th May
Time:
7:00 pm

Music - “Kavi Pranam”: A composition programme on Tagore’s works by Bhanu Tritha, Concept and Direction: Sunanda Ghosh.

 
       
  26th May
Time:
6:30 pm
Film Club Discussion - meets for the screening and discussion of Gurinder Chaddha’s energetic, race-and-sex-relations comedy “Bhaji on the Beach”(1994) [100 mins]. Filmmaker and Film Scholar Sabeena Gadihoke will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion. Bhaji on the Beach was nominated for the BAFTA award for the Best British Film of 1994. The director won the ‘Evening Standard British Film Award’ for the Best Newcomer to British Cinema.  
       
  27th May
Time:
7:00 pm & 7:15 pm
 Film Club Screening - Retrospective of Films of renowned Bengali director Nabyendu Chatterjee.  Collab: FFSI

7.00 p.m. Interaction with Nabyendu Chatterjee
7.15 p.m. Mansur Mian Ghora
 
       
  28th May
Time:
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm

Film Club Screening -  Retrospective of Films of renowned Bengali director Nabyendu Chatterjee Collab:  FFSI

7.00 p.m. "Shilpi". COLLAB: FFSI.
9.00 p.m. "Parasharumer Kuthar". COLLAB: FFSI

 
       
  29th May
Time:
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Film Club Screening -  Retrospective of Films of renowned Bengali director Nabyendu Chatterjee Collab:  FFSI

7.00 p.m. "Sarisdeep (The Reptile)". COLLAB: FFSI.
9.00 p.m. "Chopper". COLLAB: FFSI
 
       
  30th May
Time:
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Film Club Screening  - Retrospective of Films of renowned Bengali director Nabyendu Chatterjee Collab:  FFSI

7.00 p.m. "Atmaja". COLLAB: FFSI.
9.00 p.m. "Souda". COLLAB: FFSI
 
       
  30th May
Time:
7:00 pm
Music -Rajendra Prasanna  presents a Flute recital in the Guru Shishya Parampara.  HCL Concert Series.  
       
  31th May
Time:
6:30 pm
Film -Film Club Discussion meets for the screening and discussion of Gurinder Chaddha’s energetic, race-and-sex-relations comedy “Bhaji on the Beach” (1994) [100mins] Film maker and Film scholar Sabeena Gadhoke will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion.  This film was nominated for the BAFTA award for the Best British Film of 1994. The director won the ‘Evening Standard British Film Award’ for the Best Newcomer to British Cinema.  
       
  31th May
Time:
7:00 pm
PLAY - Ruchika Theatre Group presents  “The Edible Women”, experimental short plays in English by Dario Fo and others Dir: Feisal Alkazi.