India Week at Clare Hall

The enterprising international graduate college will be hosting lectures, dance, drama, music an exhibition and a cookery demonstration in India Week between 6 and 12 June.

Open to all with free admission, the week begins on Sunday 6 June with a Bharatanatyam dance recital in the College Dining Hall by Krishna Zivraj-Nair.

On Monday 7 June there will be a lecture and workshop entitled ‘The multitude of colour in saris’ on the many different kinds of saris and how to wear them. Later the same evening there will be dramatic readings from the play Queen Victoria and the Maharaja of Punjab and an Indian poetry recital.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, Professor Jaideep Prabhu, will give a lecture in the College’s Richard Eden Suite on Tuesday 8 June, discussing the phenomenon of innovation in India and how it could pose a threat to the western world. Following this the eminent broadcaster and journalist Sir Mark Tully, who has spent much of his life in India and was the BBC’s Bureau Chief there for more than twenty years, will give a lecture entitled “India not a failing but a flailing state”.

His Excellency Mr Asoka Mukerji, the Indian Deputy High Commissioner to the UK will lecture on India’s Foreign Policy on Wednesday 9 June. The following day a Fellow of Clare Hall who is half Indian, Professor Julius Lipner, who is Professor of Hinduism and Comparative Religions in the Faculty of Divinity, will discuss how the Hindu view of life has helped India to survive.

Outstanding Sarod player Soumik Datta, who has recently worked with the likes of Akram Khan and Beyonce Knowles, will give a concert in the Dining Hall on Thursday 10 June.

The final events of India Week at Clare Hall will be a lecture by Pinky Lilani OBE, of Spice Magic, followed by a showing of the recently released Bollywood blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’.

Throughout the week there will be an exhibition by acclaimed Indian Photographer Natasha Kumar entitled ‘Blow Horn – Signs and Life in India’.

For more information about venues and times please click on the India Week link above right.

All of these events are open to the public and are free of charge.