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Till December 17 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings in oil and watercolour by Sisir Kanjilal. Till December 17 at Galerie 88; 3 pm - 7 pm: Recent works of Prabhakar Kolte.DRAMA
Till December 25 at Academy of Fine Arts: Nandikar?s 22nd National Theatre Festival. Today: The Nightingale and the Rose (English; at 2.30 pm) and Hanglai (Manipuri; at 6 pm). Tomorrow: Indian Idol (Bengali; at 10 am), Monikatha (Bengali) and Kagoj Kahini (Bengali) at 2.30 pm; and Chokh Gyalo (Bengali) at 6 pm. n December 17 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Nandipat stages Mrityu Na Hatya. Direction: Bibhas Chakraborty. December 17 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Samikshan presents Manmoyee Girls School. Direction: Pankaj Munshi. December 18 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents Megh. Directon: Anish Ghosh.TALK
December 17 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Govnda Gopal Mukhopadhyay will speak in Bengali on Bharateeya Chintay Swami Ranganathanandajir Avadan. December 17 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak on Yog O Tahar Abhyas.PERFORMING ARTS
December 17 at Uttam Mancha, 4 pm & December 18 at Nazrul Mancha, 10 am onwards: To celebrate the birth centenary of Pandit Krishna Kumar Ganguly (Natu Babu), Tollygunge Sangeet Piyasi presents a classical music festival. Today: Sabir Khan with Arif Khan (tabla lahara), Mashkoor Ali Khan (vocal), Kushal Das (sitar) and Ali Ahmed Hussain (shehnai). Tomorrow: Chhanda Bichitra by Sangeet Piyasi students; Malabika Mitra (Kathak), Manas Chakrabarty (vocal), Swapan Chowdhury (tabla lahara), Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar), Girija Devi (vocal) and Kishen Maharaj with Puran Maharaj (tabla lahara). December 17 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Maharashtra Lalit Kala Nidhi?s Gunidas Sangeet Sammelan features Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Mohan veena) and Ulhas Kashalkar (vocal). December 18 at Aikatan, A 290 Salt Lake; 5 pm: Arohan Foundation n collaboraton with EZCC, presents an evening of Hindustani classical music featuring Madhup Mudgal (vocal) and Kalyan Mukherjee (sarod).BOOKs
December 17 at Oxford Bookstore; 5 pm: Oxford Bookstore and Penguin Books celebrate the publicaton of Spouse: The Truth about Marriage by Shobhaa De, who will moderate a discussion on Marriages - How they Work and Why they Fail with celebrity couples Jayabrato and Subhra Chatterjee, Bikram Ghosh and Jaya Sil, and Arindam and Nilanjana Chakraborty.BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
December 17 & 18 at Sarat Smriti Sadan (Traingular Park); 5.30 pm: Bharati Tamil Sangam has organised the 124th birth aniversary celebration of poet Subramania Bharati. On this occasion, Ilakkiya selver Kumari Anandan, ex-MP from Chennai, will give lectures on Bharati and Tamil literature whch ncludes Kav Sammelan and seminar.EXHIBITIon
Till December 18 at Caffeine, 10/4F Elgin Road; 11 am onwards: Nimble Fingers is organising Santa?s Bag, a pre-Christmas exhibition of cards, calendars, candles, candies, jewellery, gift items, paper masks, terracotta bells and handmade paper stationery. Till December 24 at Sasha, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 10 am - 7 pm: Sasha Christmas Festival showcases pasmina & lambs wool shawls, stoles, woollen items, bamboo & madur grass products, silver tribal jewellery, candles, embroidered Christmas cards and hangings. Till December 17 at Ciao Bella, 3 Queens Park: An exhibition of menswear, womenswear & accessories. Till December 21 at Soumya?s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition to celebrate Calcutta?s brief winters, titled Dress-up December, offers home accessories including ceramic ware, durries, framed pictures and candles, and wearables including costume jewellery, T-shirts, bags, chanderi and cotton dress. Till December 17 at Kanishka?s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 10.30 am - 8 pm: Tussar Utsav showcasing a collection of handpicked tussars from the looms of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal.FILM FESTIVAL
Till December 23 at Nandan; 2 pm & 6 pm: Seagull Foundation for the Arts, in collaboration with National Film Archives of India (Pune), Films Division and Nandan, presents A Retrospective of Films by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Today: Krishnattam (at 2 pm) and Mathilukal (at 6 pm). Tomorrow: The Chola Heritage (at 2 pm) and Vidheyan (at 6 pm).READING
December 18 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya?s report to Dhritarastra of the 10th day?s battle at Kurukshetra, narrating the advice of Bhisma, to his Kaurava and Pandava mourners, from his death-bed of arrows and the poignant reconciliation between him and Karna, in the 307th weekly Sunday session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa?s complete Mahabharata.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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