Article 19

Category: Conference 2018

  • Conference 2018 | Inaugural | The Thumri Orchard – Vidya Shah

    Artists are often a forgotten lot; more so if they are practitioners of the classical. This year again the Union budget had no mention of art or culture. Even our census puts down all artists under the category ‘others’; a skewed view, and unfortunate. Vidya Shah, delivering the second inaugural lecture-demonstration at the HSS Conference, Read More

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  • Conference 2018 | Inaugural | Singing on the Razor’s Edge – Lakshmi Sreeram

    Our story begins on the 1st of February 2018, at 5.45 PM (although it was scheduled to begin a good fifteen minutes earlier). It was a colourful evening with ladies in gracefully draped sarees and men in elegant kurtas, exchanging excited chit-chat over cups of coffee and tea. The stage was set. It was the Read More

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  • Conference calls!

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    Don’t you all wonder sometimes why we keep doing certain things? You might have been part of a school-fest which is still being organized. A “department fest” that continues to attract huge crowds. A Shaastra or a Saarang which has a combined footfall of more than a lakh. Amongst these crowd-pulling extravaganzas, this student-organized academic Read More

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  • Beyond Facebook shares and Gmail labels

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    I remember lying down on the side upper berth of a train and picking up the phone. I don’t remember where I was coming back from or anything else for that matter. I only remember sitting up when the phone rang (yes yes, senior bhaav was a thing) and picking up, wondering what might be Read More

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  • Conducting A Conference: From Bullwork to Bullying By Aswin

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    In 2012, I got involved in the activities related to the Department Conference quite accidentally. ‘Negotiating Conflict’ was the second edition of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Conference and the team structure was complicated, to say the least. Since it was envisioned as a bi-annual event, there were two teams responsible for Read More

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