Events in New Delhi

• * 3rd March : Ajanta Art Gallery, ICCR : Works in various media by Prabal Pramanik till the 15th
  
• * 8th March : Kamani Auditorium : Inauguration of "Days of Kyrghyz Culture in India"
  
• * 12th March : Tagore Hall : Horizon Series: Kathak : Pragati Sood & Abhimanyu Lal
  
• * 20th March : Shriram Centre : Performance by the Zanzibar National Dance Troupe
  
• * 23rd March : Kamani Auditorium : Play Othello by the El Teatro group from Tunisia :in collaboration with the National School of Drama
  
• * 30th March : Shriram Centre : Folk dance and music from Mauritius
  
  
  

  Events in other cities

  
  
• Kyrghyzstan : Bangalore (10th), Mysore (11th), Chandigarh (12th), Shimla (11th), Calcutta (11h & 12th)
• Zanzibar : Mumbai (12th), Mangalore (13th), Bangalore (16th), Hyderabad (17th), Jaipur (22nd)
• Croatia : being finalised
• Tunisia : Calcutta (25th), Chennai (27th), Thiruvananthapuram (29th)
• Mauritius : Mumbai (26th), Goa (28th), Allahabad (1st April), Lucknow (3rd April)
  
  

  Events Abroad

• Installation of a bronze bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Malta
• Photographic Exhibition on Buddhist Heritage in Myanmar
  
  
• Bangladesh
  • Theatre: Shri Ratan Thiyam
  • Hindustani vocal: Ms Padma Talwalkar
  • Odissi: Ms Sangeeta Das
  • Santoor: Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma
  • Kathak: "Kadamb" of Ms Kumudini Lakhia
  • Folk from Rajasthan: Kohinoor Langa
  
  
• Light classical: Ms Anjana Chopra : to Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Zambia
• Folk from Orissa: Shri Bhagwan Sahu : to Australia, New Zealand
• Qawwali: Ustad Ghulam Waris: to Iran & U.A.E
• Kathakali: Margi Kathakali: to Sri Lanka
• Bharatanatyam: Ms Sreekala Bharath: to Syria, Qatar, Kuwait
• Vichitra Veena: Shri Mustafa Raza : to Syria, Qatar, Kuwait
• Kuchipudi: Ms Meenu Thakur: to South Africa, Zambia, Reunion Islands
• Hindustani vocal : Ms Parameshwar Hegde: to the U.S.A.: travel assistance
  
  Concluding their tours abroad are
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• Ms Neelam Mansingh : Theatre : Australia
• Ms Shovana Narayan : Kathak : Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and Germany *

Distinguished Visitors Programme

• The Council's Distinguished Guests during the month include : Daw Ni Ni Myint & U Myo Aung from the Universities Historical Research Centre, Myanmar; Dr Margot Gatzlaff, Recipient of the 1998 Gisela Bonn Award, from Germany; Five artisans from Japan to attend the Workshop organised by the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust; Mr John Nagenda, Author & Presidential media adviser from Uganda; Mr Kanesh Jusupov, translator of the "Mahabharata" from Kyrghyzstan and Prof Kabir Chowdhury, Author & National Professor from Bangladesh
  
  
• The ICCR continues to facilitate the travel abroad of Indian scholars, artists and artistans. In March, these include Dr (Ms) Shashi Prabha Kumar, Dept of Philosophy, Delhi University ( winner of the "Shankar Award" to participate in the International Congress of Vedanta in Trinidad & Tobago; Shri Jamuluddin & Shri Mukhtar Ahmed toparticiapte in the Kite Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Shri G R Iranna, artist, to Croatia.
  
  
• Under its Memorandum of Understanding with the Harry Truman Institute, Tel Aviv, the ICCR is arranging and participating in the second Indo-Israel colloquium in Israel. This year's topic is "India & Israel: Society, Culture and World View". The Indian participants in the Colloquium are : Dr (Ms) Varsha Das, Shri M Varadarajan, Prof S S Bhattacharjee, Shri S K Singh, Shri H K Dua and Shri N N Jha.
  
  

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