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  Hind Swaraj A Century After: Imagining the Public Life of Nonviolence
 

December 18, Friday

   
5:00 pm Opening Remarks: Arjun Appadurai
 
6:00 - 8:00 pm Opening Reception: “DETOUR” curator Ranjit Hoskote
  An exhibition marking the Centennial of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
 

 
December 19, Saturday
   
10:00 - 11:30 am  Amar Kanwar: “The Invisible Image”
  Vyjayanthi Rao: “Hindu Modern: Considering Gandhian Aesthetics”
  Chair: Ritu Birla
   
11:30 - 11:45 am Tea
   
11:45 - 1:15 pm Lalit Vachani: “Searching for Gandhi in Narendra Modi's Gujarat: A filmic journey”
  Rachel Dwyer: “The paradoxical hero: Gandhi in Hindi cinema”
  Chair: Faisal Devji
   
1:15 - 2:30 pm Lunch
   
2:30 - 4.00 pm Chris Pinney: “Bombs, Knowledge and Amulets: Hind Swaraj and the shadow of B. G. Tilak’s 1908 trial”
  Isabel Hofmeyr: “Violent Texts, Vulnerable Readers: Hind Swaraj and its South African Audiences”
  Chair: Pamila Gupta
   
4:00 - 4:30 pm Tea 
   
OPEN PUBLIC EVENT
5:30 - 6:30 pm Registration and Refreshments
   
6:30 - 8:00 pm PUBLIC EVENT in honor of Professor Carol Breckenridge
  Lecture: Ashis Nandy
  Chair: Arjun Appadurai
  Respondents: Faisal Devji and Ritu Birla
   

 
December 20, Sunday
 
10:00 - 11:30 am SR Hiremath: “Quest For Swaraj: The grass root experiences of Nonviolent Direct Action: Environment and Self Rule”
  Rajni Bakshi: “Self, the 'other' and striving for Swaraj"
  Chair: Aishwary Kumar
   
11:30 - 11:45 am Tea
   
11:45 - 1:15 pm Dilip da Cunha: "Beyond the River Bed"
  Madhusree Dutta: “Aap Hamare Hai Kaun (Who are you to us)”
  Chair: Shruti Kapila
   
1:15 - 1:30 pm Closing Remarks: Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji
 

 
Venues:
   
18th December Opening Remarks:
Jnanapravaha
Queens Mansion, 3rd Floor
G. Talwatkar Marg
Fort, Mumbai 400001

18th December Reception:
Gallery Chemould
Queens Mansion, 3rd Floor
G. Talwatkar Marg
Fort, Mumbai 400 001

19-20th December Conference:
Jnanapravaha

Queens Mansion, 3rd Floor
G. Talwatkar Marg
Fort, Mumbai 400001

19th December Public Event:
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Godrej Theatre, NCPA
NCPA Marg
Nariman Point
Mumbai 400 021

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