OUR NEXT EVENT:
Annual Round-Up 2010 + Hasya Kavi Sammelan
Time: 5.15 pm
Venue: Hotel Parkview, Chandigarh
JOIN US!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Chapbook & Heritage Fest 2010
On 28th of March 2010, as part of the 2nd Chd Arts and Heritage Festival, the CSA launchedChandigarh Chapbook: Poetry 2010, a collection of poems written by Chandigarh residents. The book was launched by Shri Pradip Mehra.
The event was a Face-to-Face with noted Hindi writers, Ashok Vajpeyi and Manjula Rana, at the Museum Audi, Sector 10.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Face to Face
OUR NEXT EVENT:
FACE TO FACE with noted writers ASHOK VAJPEYI and MANJULA RANA
Date: 28 March 2010.
Time: 10.30
Venue: Govt. Museum Auditorium, Sector 10, Chd.
This is part of Chd Heritage Fest.
Join us!
AND
BOOK LAUNCH
CHANDIGARH CHAPBOOK - POETRY 2010
to released
(selected poems in English published by CSA)
FACE TO FACE with noted writers ASHOK VAJPEYI and MANJULA RANA
Date: 28 March 2010.
Time: 10.30
Venue: Govt. Museum Auditorium, Sector 10, Chd.
This is part of Chd Heritage Fest.
Join us!
AND
BOOK LAUNCH
CHANDIGARH CHAPBOOK - POETRY 2010
to released
(selected poems in English published by CSA)
FELICITATION CEREMONY
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/105464712099114161998/FelicitationCeremony#
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi organized a Felicitation Ceremony to honour those who have served the cause of literature. Among those who have made a difference to the literary and cultural atmosphere of the city are writers Gulzar Sandhu, Gursharan Singh. H.S. Nama, Indu Bali, Kashmiri Lal Zakir, Mohan Bhandari, Virendra Mehndirattaa, R.D. Sharma Taseer, and Yash Gulati, all of them well-known names in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu literature.
The Ceremony was presided over by the Sr. Deputy Mayor of Chandigarh, Shri Bhupinder Singh Badheri. The awards to the writers include a commemorative plaque and a cash incentive of Rs. 11,000 each.
The event took place in the Randhawa Auditorium of Punjab Kala Bhavan, Sector 16, Chandigarh, which was packed to capacity and reverberated with applause as the awards were received by veteran writers, often with a show of emotion. Some of them fondly remembered Dr M.S. Randhawa who had contributed a lot to the city of Chandigarh and also founded the three akademis of the Arts Council of Chandigarh.
Chairperson of the CSA, Manju Jaidka, welcomed all and enumerated the aims and achievements of the akademi. She explained that the function was not simply to honour established writers who had dedicated their lives to literature but also to award young achievers who had participated in creative writing competitions organized by the CSA and won prizes. Caring for upcoming talent in the city is an important agenda of the akademi. She reiterated the CSA’s intention to provide a platform to all lovers of literature in Chandigarh, not only to showcase their talents but to facilitate their interaction with writers from outside the city and from all age groups and creat a strong, vibrant culture in the city through the promotion of literature.
In his concluding remarks, Mr Bhupinder Singh Badheri, Deputy Mayor, who presided over the event, congratulated the awardees and also the organizers of the event, appreciating the idea that the young and old, both are part of the city and their talents need to be encouraged.
Madhav Kaushik, Secretary, CSA, ably conducted the function, brought it to a close and invited all to a photo session followed by high tea in the lawns outside.
Chairperson of the CSA, Manju Jaidka, welcomed all and enumerated the aims and achievements of the akademi. She explained that the function was not simply to honour established writers who had dedicated their lives to literature but also to award young achievers who had participated in creative writing competitions organized by the CSA and won prizes. Caring for upcoming talent in the city is an important agenda of the akademi. She reiterated the CSA’s intention to provide a platform to all lovers of literature in Chandigarh, not only to showcase their talents but to facilitate their interaction with writers from outside the city and from all age groups and creat a strong, vibrant culture in the city through the promotion of literature.
In his concluding remarks, Mr Bhupinder Singh Badheri, Deputy Mayor, who presided over the event, congratulated the awardees and also the organizers of the event, appreciating the idea that the young and old, both are part of the city and their talents need to be encouraged.
Madhav Kaushik, Secretary, CSA, ably conducted the function, brought it to a close and invited all to a photo session followed by high tea in the lawns outside.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
FELICITATION CEREMONY
You are invited
to a
FELICITATION CEREMONY
organized by the
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi
Presided over by
ANU CHATRATH
Mayor, Chandigarh
Monday, 22 March 2010
organized by the
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi
Presided over by
ANU CHATRATH
Mayor, Chandigarh
Monday, 22 March 2010
4.00 pm
Venue: Randhawa Audi, Kala Bhawan
(Rose Garden) Sector 16, Chd.
Join us!
Monday, February 22, 2010
DETAILED PROGRAM
Photographs available on this link: http://picasaweb.google.co.in/mjaidka/InternationalConferenceFeb2010#
DAY ONE
25 FEBRUARY 2010
INAUGURAL SESSION 9.45 AM
10:00 am Introduction Prof. Manju Jaidka
10:15 am Welcome Prof. Gulshan Kataria
10:30 am Inauguration Prof. R.C Sobti (VC)
10:45 am Special Guest Shri Pradip Mehra, IAS
11:00 am Announcement of Isaac Sequeira Award and Book Launch
11.15 am: TEA BREAK
11.30 am to 12 noon: First Keynote. Prof. Harish Trivedi: “India, America and World Literature."
12.00 noon to 1.30 PM – PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D
Venue for all parallel sessions on Day 1 & 2:
SESSION A – English Auditorium
SESSION B – Lecture Hall I, GF, Arts Block I
SESSION C – Lecture Hall II, GF, Arts Block I
SESSION D – Language Lab, FF, Arts Block I
SESSION A:
Chair: Prof. Brajesh Sawhney, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
Speakers:
Anu Celly: “Quest for the West: The Tragic Audacity of Immigrant Dreams in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits”
Manpreet Kaur Kang: “Indian Women Writers in Canada: A Socio-Literary Study”
· Purnendu Chatterjee: “Indian Sub-Continental Female Diaspora: Reading Three Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Kiran Desai and Monica Ali
Sunita Sinha: “Miasma of Violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India”
SESSION B:
Chair: Dr. Vijay Sharma, Principal, RLA College, Delhi University
Speakers:
· Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt: “Metamorphosis of the Protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters”
· Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri: “Body and Food in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine”
Vinita Jha: “The Postcolonial Syndrome: A Study of The Inheritance Of Loss”
· Garima Williams: “Sublime and Subversive Women of Jhumpa Lahiri as Victims of Consumerist Culture”
SESSION C
Chair: Prof. Mita Biswas, HPU, Shimla.
Speakers:
· Sushi Datta-Sandhu: “Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai: Environmentalist, Political Activist and Cultural Icon of Kenya”
· Sandhya Devesan Nambiar: “The Left Hand Of Darkness: An Ecofeminist Reading of Ursula Le Guin”
Rohini Tukdeo: “In Search of Woman’s Sphere: A Case Study of a Marathi Novel.”
· Shuchismita Mitra : “Role-Play and Shifting Identities in Popular Hindi Cinema : A Case Study of Jo Bole So Nihaa”
SESSION D
Chair: Prof. Sushila Singh
Speakers:
· Meenu Gupta: “Aesthetics of Representing Cultural Paradigms in Rushdie”
· Pankti Desai: “Sugarcanes, Swans and Sex: Depiction of Feminine Sexuality in Sujata Bhatt’s Poetry”
· Rachna Rastogi: “Assimilation of Eastern and Western Values in Markandaya’s Pleasure City”
Mary Mohanty: “The Woman Question: A Study of Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things”
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS A-D
SESSION A
Chair: Prof. Harish Trivedi, Delhi University
Speakers:
Stella Hockenhull: “Emotional Landscapes and My Summer Of Love”
Somdatta Mandal: “‘Fat Studies’: The Obsession and the Discourse of Revolt in American Culture”
· Mohanmeet Khosla: “Pictures in our Heads: Media as Society’s Mirror or Driver?”
· Sachin Ketkar: “Rebuilding Babel: Literary Studies in the Post-Global/Post-Political Era”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. Sudhir Kumar, PU, Chandigarh
Speakers:
Anil Raina: "Reliving the Medieval Conflict: Terrorism in John Updike's Terrorist"
Razdan,K B: “Literature-Culture Synergy: Chronic Scenario of an Unnerving Fracture in John Updike’s Roger’s Version”
Mukul Sengupta: “Strategies of Culture and Imperialism in Howard Bahr’s The Year Of Jubilo”
· Santosh P. Rajguru: “Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: A Study of Zadie Smith's Novels”
SESSION C
Chair: Dr. Anu Celly, University of Tennessee, U.S.A.
Speakers:
· Anurag Kumar & Nagendra Kumar: “Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day: A Cultural Study”
· Roshan Lal Sharma: “Subverting Mainstream Cinema: A Critique of the Images of Despair, Death and Violence in Bahman Ghobadi’s film Turtles Can Fly”
· Niyatee Ayyar: “Journey from Compliance to Competence: Selfhood in the Novels of Alice Walker”
SESSION D
Chair: Lovelina P. Singh
Speakers:
Nilakshi Roy: “Schooled” and “Classed”: The Portrayal of the Asian Girl-Child in British Asian Texts of the 1980s to the Present.”
Meghsood Esmaieli: “Hijab in Islam and Iran: The Shiite Perspective”
Amrit Kaur: “Shame of ‘Honour Killing’: Moral Policing in Jaswinder Sanghera’s Daughters of Shame”
Navjot Kaur: “Of Inner Roots and External Adjuncts: An Analysis of Soyinka’s A Play Of Giants
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Photo Session & TEA BREAK
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS A-C
SESSION A
Chair: Dr. Himadri Lahiri, University of Burdwan. Burdwan, West Bengal
Speakers:
Azad & Esmael : “Stephen King's Desperation (1996) as an Ecocritical Novel”
· Jyoti Mishra: “Living and not Pretending to Live through Self- Actualization:Coelho’s Veronika Decides To Die”
· Navreet Sahi: Breaking the Boundaries: The Underdog from Fringes to Frames”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. GR Kataria, Pbi University, Patiala
Speakers:
· NDR Chandra: “A World Without Real: Understanding Hyperreality
Ravichandran T : “Mixing of the Mythical and the Hyperreal in Cyberhell: Tracking the Topology of Cybermancy”
· Melissa Helen: “Mass Media and the Polarization of Racism and Sexism with reference to the Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas Case in the United States”
SESSION C
Chair: Dr. Mukul Sengupta, Kolkata
Speakers:
R.G.Kulkarni : “Dissolving Boundaries: A Critical Appraisal of Sandra Cisneros’ Poetry”
· Hossein Sabouri: “Chinua Achebe’s Anthills Of The Savannah: Whose Is To Blame?”
Ramanpreet Grewal: “Morbid Interregnum: Racial Violence in the Novels of Nadine Gordimer”
5:30 – 6:00 PM BREAK
6:00 pm Plenary Presentations (English Audi)
“This is It”: The Virtual Life of Michael Jackson
S. S. Bhatti : “Chandigarh, the City Beautiful”
7.00 PM: Play Performance by Dept of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, Chandigarh
“The Trojan Women” in Hindustani
Venue: Open Air Theatre, Panjab University
8.00 PM: Dinner
26TH FEB 2010
9.30 AM TO 11.00 - PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D
SESSION A
Chair: Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University
Speakers:
Carolyn Kraus: “Notes From Underground: Detroit's Other Economy”
Raphael Joseph: Re-Remembering Space and Place: Spatializing Literary and Cultural Studies
Anjali Chauhan: “Lucknow City: From the Cuture of the Nawabs to the Culture of Consumption”
Neeti Mahajan: “Bombay Lost And Found: The Question of Relocation and Identity Formation in Suketu Mehta's The Maximum City”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. K.B Razdan, Jammu University.
Speakers:
Yatri Dilipbhai Dave: “Culture of Consumerism in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ Call Center”
· Mahesh M. Nivargi: “Heading For The Light : An Exegesis Of The Mysticism In The Traveling Wilburys’ Lyrics”
· Harneet Sandhu: “‘Literature and Culture: Concerns of Creativity in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink”
· Jayanta Kar Sharma: “A Critical Re-Reading of Dalit Literature”
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SESSION C
Chair: Prof. Nishi Pandey, Lucknow University
Speakers:
Rashmi Mathur: “Rise of the Indian Picaro: A Metamorphosis from Underdog/ Slumdog to The White Tiger/Millionaire”
· Anupam Nahar: “The Bard in Bollywood: Adaptations Across Cultures”
Kaliknar Pattanayak: “The Fictional Representation of Contemporary Reality: A Comparative Study of Midnight's Children and The White Tiger”
· Nishi Pulugurtha: “Translocating Identity in Sino-Indian Diasporic Literature: Kwai-Yun Li’s The Last Dragon Dance”
SESSION D
Chair: Prof. Meera Malik, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Speakers:
· Sukla Basu (Sen): “African American Consciousness since the 80s: The ‘Songs’ of Dramatist August Wilson”
· Reza Yavarian: “Nature/Human in Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants”
V. M. Sylvester: “Critical Perspectives on Popular African Myths of Women: Implications for Development
· Debashish Lahiri: ““Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: Man Jacks of Ideology and the Obi Bag”
·
11:00 – 11:30 TEA BREAK
11:30 – 12 NOON PLENARY SESSION
2nd Keynote Address. Prof. Mukesh Williams, Soka University, Tokya: “The American Gulliver and World System - Cooperation and Consensus”
12 noon – 1:00 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS A – C
SESSION A
Chair: Dr. Somdatta Mandal, Visvabharati Univesity, Shantiniketan.
Speakers:
Carlos Gohn: “As They Saw India: The Case of a Soap Opera in Brazil”
Vivek Sachdeva: “Media as a Weapon: A Study of the Presentation of Terrorism in Indian Visual Media with special reference to 26/11
Himadri Roy: “Gays in Bollywood Representation: A Case Study of Dostana”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. Mina S. Singh, PU, Chandigarh.
Speakers:
Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara: “The 21st-Century Challenge of Exploring Violence and Envisioning Peace through Multi-Ethnic World Literature: Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence and Haroun and the Sea of Stories.”
· Nandini Bhadra: “Transculturing the Chinese Legend Mulan and the Woman Warrior Tradition: Legend, Myth, Film and Popular Culture”
Alka Saxena: “Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge: A Study in Cultural Negotiation”
SESSION C
Chair: Dr. Suneeta Patnayak, DAVC, Chandigarh
Speakers:
Anshu Shekhawat: “Gender Perspectives in the Domestic Sphere in Post-1980 Indian Drama
· Vandana Sukheeja: “Postcolonial Dichotomy in Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album”
Ranjita Barik: “The Voice of the Subaltern in The White Tiger”
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00—3:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D
SESSION A
Chair: Prof. Mukesh Williams, Soka University, Tokyo.
Speakers:
Kaoru Kinoshita: “Concept of Gender In The Poetry Of Walt Whitman And Daisaku Ikeda”
· Ui Teramoto : “Configuring and Representing Indian Diaspora in Japan”
Kun Jong lee: “Repositioning Korean Military Wives in Ishle Yi Park’s The Temperature of This Water”
Akiko Ogihara: “American expatriate in Japan, citizenship and Identity”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. Carolyn Kraus, U Michigan.
Speakers:
Dipankar Purkayastha: “Negotiating Transitions: Charles Johnson And Mamang Dai”
Roya Yaghoubi: “Image of the Afro-American Subaltern Girl in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”
Ashu Vashisht: “Ecstatic Literature and Enigmatic Culture: Gendered Apostasy in Jerzy Kosinski’s Pinball”
Seema Bhupendra: “Politics of Violence and Oppression in the Plays of Harold Pinter”
SESSION C
Chair: Prof. Anil Raina, PU, Chandigarh
Speakers:
Himadri Lahiri: “Memory and Reality in Khaled Hossaini’s The Kite Runner”
Seema Malik + Vaibhav: “Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Reading of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow”
Namrata Nistandra: “The World Was Silent When We Died: Remembering History in C N Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”
· Smita Jha: “The Western Paradigm: An Overview of Slumdog Millionaire and The White Tiger”
3.30 PM: TEA BREAK
3.45 PM to 4.15 PM: MELOW GBM
6.00 PM to 7.30 PM: TWO PARALLEL POETRY SESSIONS
SESSION A: (Hindi, Urdu, Pbi)
Venue – Gandhi Bhavan
Chair: Mamta Kalia (DS Gupt)
Poets: T N Raaz, Yojana Rawat , Roshan Sharma, B D Kalia, Rupa Saba, Taaran Gujral, Santosh Dhiman, Atul Vir Arora
SESSION B: (English)
Venue: English Auditorium
Chair: Prof. Sushila Singh (Manju Jaidka)
Poets: Nirupama Dutt, Kailash Ahluwalia, Balpreet Kaur, Lalita Jagmohan, Aradhana Sharma, Sourabh Gupta, Debashish Lahiri
27th Feb 2010
Venue: English Auditorium
9.45 AM to 10.30 AM: Shashi Deshpande in conversation with Pratibha Nagpal & Sudhir Kumar
10.30 AM to 11.15 AM: Mamta Kalia in conversation with Mina Singh
11.15 AM to 11.30 AM TEA BREAK
11.30 noon to 12.15 PM: Chander Trikha in conversation with Madhav Kaushik
12.15 PM to 1.00 PM: Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal: In Search of Sita
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM: LUNCH
2.00 to 3.30 PM TWO PARALLEL STORY SESSIONS
(A) Venue: Gandhi Bhavan
Chair: Dr. KL Zakir
Speakers: Ravindra Kalia, V. Mehndiratta, Indu Bali
(B) Venue: English Auditorium
Chair: Manjula Padmanabhan
Speakers: T N Dhar, Carolyn Kraus, Jaideep Chadha
3. 45 to 4.15 pm Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture Venue: English Audi
Chair: Prof. Gulshan Kataria
Speaker: Prof. P.C. Kar “Aesthetics of Modernism”
4.15 to 4.30: Summing-up and Vote of Thanks Venue: English Audi
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