'Azad Qalam: Revisiting the legacy of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas' a conference at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9:30am onwards on 14th & 15th March 2014

Time : 9:30 am

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Conference ‘Azad Qalam:  Revisiting the legacy of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’ in association with K.A. Abbas Centenary Celebrations Committee, New Delhi.

Programme Schedule:                              Friday, 14 March 2014

Welcome: 9.30 a.m. – 9.35 a.m. Opening remarks: 9.35 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.	Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi Hon’ble Aziz Quraishi, Governor of Uttarakhand and Chairman, K A Abbas Centenary Celebrations Committee, New Delhi
Vote of Thanks: 10.00 a.m. -10.20 a.m.	Dr.  Syeda S. Hameed, Member, Planning Commission, New Delhi and Organising Secretary, K A Abbas Centenary Celebrations Committee, New Delhi
10.20 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.	Tea Break
10.45 a.m.- 12.45 p.m.	Session I: ‘Abbas the Public Intellectual’
Chair:	Mr. I. A. Rehman, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Lahore
Speakers:	Dr. Hilal Ahmed, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi ‘In the Realm of the Popular:  The intellectual politics of K. A. Abbas’ Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil, Writer and Independent Researcher, New Delhi ‘A Reflection of Nehruvian India in the Ouvre of K. A. Abbas’
12.45 a.m.–.1.45 p.m.	Lunch
1.45 p.m.–4.30 p.m.	Session II:   ‘Abbas the Auteur ‘
Chair:	Mr. Suresh Kohli, Author and poet, New Delhi
Speakers:	Mr. Ravikant, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi ‘The ‘aam’ and the ‘khaas’ in Abaas’s Films’ Mr. I. A. Rehman, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Lahore ‘Opening the Door to Realism’ Mr. S.M.M. Ausaja, Film Historian and Archivist, Author of the best-selling book Bollywood in Posters, Mumbai ‘The Celluloid Journey of Abbas’
4.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m.	Tea Multi-media presentation on K.A. Abbas in the Auditorium, NMML.
	Saturday, 15 March 2014
9.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m.	Session III: ‘Abbas the Progressive’
Chair:	Prof. Ali Javed, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Speaker: 10.15 a.m.- 10.30 a.m.	Dr. Zoya Zaidi, Aligarh ‘Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, the Man in the Light of his Short Stories’ Tea Break
10.30 a.m.- 12.30 p.m. Speakers:	Dr. Ludmila Vasilyeva Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow  ‘K A Abbas: Soviet roos ki nazar mein’ Mr. Anwer Abbas, Writer, Pakistan. ‘Abbas: The man behind the lens’
12.30 pm. – 1.30 p.m. Chair: Speaker:	Session IV Dr. Ludmila Vasilyeva, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow  Mr. P. Sainath, The Hindu, Mumbai
1.30 p.m. – 2.15p.m.	Lunch
2.15 p.m. -4.00 p.m.	Session V:  ‘Abbas the Journalist’
Chair:	Dr. Ludmila Vasilyeva, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Speakers: 4.00 p.m. Valedictory Address: Concluding Remarks:	Prof. Pervaiz Alam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Gurgaon ‘Khwaja Abbas: A Veteran Journalist’ Prof. Ali Javed University of Delhi, Delhi. ‘Social Concerns in the Journalistic Writings of Abbas’ Mr. Khurshid Akram, Writer, New Delhi ‘Azad Qalam: A relook vis a vis our times’ Prof. Gopi Chand Narang, Former President of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi Dr. Syeda S. Hameed, Member, Planning Commission, and Organising Secretary, K A Abbas Centenary Celebrations Committee, New Delhi

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