Feb 03 2022 to Feb 08 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Lecture 1:

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | 6:30 pm

WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES                                                                                                                                       

The Story of a People’s Language Movement

The Census of India had listed 1652 ‘Mother Tongues’ in its 1961 language report. In 1971, this number was brought down to just 108. Where did the remaining 1455 mother tongues disappear? This lecture will present the story of the epic search for those ‘silence’ languages and the people’s movement which emerged out of the search. It will present the changing profile of India’s language diversity and the need for preservation of the diversity for safeguarding our federal structure.

Lecture 2:

February 4, 2022 | Friday | 6:30 pm

WHEN A CULTURE DIES                                                                                                                                        

The Adivasis and the Denotified Tribes of India

Indians belong either to castes or to tribes. What makes the tribal people tribal or adivasis?  What have been there cultural traditions, their thought patterns and their philosophy of life?  What led to some of them getting branded as ‘criminal tribes’?  What is the future of the culture of the Adivasis in the 21st century world?  This lecture will present views of the speaker based on his experience of creating the Adivasi academy at Tejgadh and   a global network of the indigenous peoples. The lecture will offer a perspective on the rapidly disappearing continent of culture that the indigenous of the world inhabit.

Lecture 3:

February 6, 2022 | Sunday | 6:30 pm

WHEN MEMORY DIES                                                                                                                             

or  Why the People’s Report on Indian Civilisation ?

Has the artificial memory already taken a complete possession of the human memory?  Have Indians altogether forgotten from where arrived here?  Where does one locate the beginning of India as a civilisation? Does it originate in the Vedas?  Does it go back to the Indus civilisation? Was there a civilisation before the Indian mythos emerged?  What was India when the Holocene began 12000 years before our time? Why is there politics being constructed around the question of India’s origin? This lecture will discuss the need for a People’s Report on Indian civilisation and the efforts being made towards preparing such a report.

Lecture 4:

February 8, 2022 | Tuesday | 6:30 pm

The Wheel of Time and India’s Sense of History                                                                               

MAHABHARATA : The Epic and the Nation

The Ramayana and the Mahabharata have exerted immense influence on the life and thought of Indians. If the Ramayana is a ‘unitary’ saga, the Mahabahrata is a ‘federal epic’.  Its impact has remained as deep now as it was two thousand years.  Who actually composed it?  Why did the epic allow people to weave in it ?