ASM MRC talk on 8th November 2024 by Dr. Narendra Panjwani

THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF MUMBAI
The Mumbai Research Centre
invites you to a talk titled “Getting to Know Ardeshir Irani” by Dr. Narendra Panjwani
on Friday, 8th November 2024 at 5.00 p.m.

The Mumbai Research Centre of The Asiatic Society of Mumbai invites you to a talk “Getting to Know Ardeshir Irani” by Dr. Narendra Panjwani.
The event starts at 5 PM on Friday, 8th November 2024, with tea at 4:30 PM at the Durbar Hall.

Ardeshir Irani created India's first talkie, ALAM ARA, in 1931, choosing Hindustani and thus creating Hindi Cinema. His decision inspired others, leading to a surge in Hindustani talkies. Dr. Narendra Panjwani's talk explores Irani's lasting impact on cinema.

Narendra Panjwani is a Sociologist, Journalist, and Film Historian. His recent book, "Emotion Pictures – Cinematic Journeys into the Indian Self," explores the Indian psyche through cinema. He taught Film & Media Studies at St. Xavier's College from 2006 to 2016.

- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande , Hon. Secretary Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- Dr. Shehernaz Nalwalla, Vice President of the Society & Chairperson – MRC

Special General Body Meeting (SGM) on Saturday, 9th November, 2024, at 4.00 p.m.

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Town Hall, Shahid Bhagatsingh Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001
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N O T I C E
A Special General Body Meeting (SGM) of the members of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai will be held on Saturday, 9th November, 2024, at 4.00 p.m. in the Durbar Hall of the Society to transact the following business:

A G E N D A

1. To pass the minutes of the 220th AGM held on Saturday, 28th September 2024.
2. To receive and adopt the Annual Report of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai for the year 2023-2024 and the Financial Review of the Society for 2023-2024.

- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Hon. Secretary,
Town Hall, Mumbai.

Download Link : 
1. NOTICE SGM Meeting
2. 220th AGM_Minutes
3. Annual Report 20232024
4. Financial Reveiw 202324

ASM-MRC Programme: Bombay Booked on 11th November 2024 (with Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni)

THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF MUMBAI
The Mumbai Research Centre
invites you to the Bombay Booked with Dr Uday S. Kulkarni
on Monday, 11th November 2024 at 5.00 p.m.

The Mumbai Research Center of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai invites you to Bombay Booked with Dr Uday S. Kulkarni, author of Raghoba: The Assassination of Narayan Rao Peshwa. The session will be chaired by Mr Narendra Murkumbi, the founder of Murkumbi Itihas Upakram.

Date: November 11, 2024 (Monday)
Talk: 5.00 p.m.
Tea: 4.30 p.m.
Venue: The Durbar Hall, The Asiatic Society of India

Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni is a much awarded author who has penned several non-fiction books dealing with Eighteenth Century Indian history. He is also a trained Surgeon who has served in the Indian Navy.

Raghoba: The Assassination of Narayan Rao Peshwa is Dr Kulkarni’s eighth non-fiction book on the most important period in India’s recent history; the eighteenth century.

Mr Narendra Murkumbi is the founder of Murkumbi Itihas Upakram. He has published books on history and is developing a permanent exhibition on the Maratha Navy in Mumbai.

- Prof. Mangala Sirdeshpande, Hon. Secretary Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- Dr. Shehernaz Nalwalla, Vice President of the Society & Chairperson – MRC

YOUTUBE LINK

ENDOWMENT LECTURES SECTION 

• Recording Billimoria Endowment Lecture by Prof Mayank Vahia held on 3rd September 2024
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1brEZ3hM8toTKCc-SqsZMR1acoySLijlg/view?usp=sharing
  
  
• Twelfth Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture by Professor Subhash Walimbe
  Retd. Faculty, Deccan College PGRI (Deemed University), Pune on“Peopling of the Indian subcontinent”
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uVUar13sngqH6HYYE2qMoBUQpe7nS4Me/view?usp=sharing
  

• 14th B. G. Deshmukh Endowment Lecture by Dr. K.P. Krishnan, IAS (Retd),
  Former Secretary, Government of India on "Making Regulation in India work better"
  https://youtu.be/Ix9tU5TtFa0
  

• Fourth Dr Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture held on 12th March 2024 
  by Dipankar Gupta on “The Urban Shift: From Patriarchy to Masculinity” 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d24c6G5dSaNXSSjblX7xJkvKDjXAJp1E/view?usp=sharing
  
  
• Prof. L B Kenny Endowment Lecture held on 21st February 2024 by Brinda Somaya
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EUZLdYSU5hnXfrzPWgcfwm6ph3uPMc17/view?usp=sharing
  

• 30^th Smt. Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture by Mr Justice Rohinton Nariman Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India and former Solicitor General of India
  on  “The Constitution of India:  Checks and Balances” held on Friday, 15^th December 2023
  https://www.youtube.com/live/JMNW2QCM9ac?si=ncSY4v3lt8XSdiFN
  

• Dr Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture   by   Dr. Ramachandra Guha held on 8th December 2023
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sqoxBRA_6SdVgjNJS1-KcO7swud2x0aN/view?usp=sharing
  
  
• Lit Club talk held on 30th August 2023 by Dr. Usha Thakkar and Dr. Pam Rajput
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Od8wdaMga2HYlA2d4k5cNKUFhf7ZJpVJ/view?usp=sharing
  

• Third Dr Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture by Arshia Sattar, Ph.D. to be held on 29^th March 2023 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/19suuGtPEDCiz78sGzb9FadrLYnIPYqXF/view?usp=share_link
  

• 13th B G Deshmukh Endowment Lecture by Ambassador Shyam Saran held on 5th April 2023
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GzFryOw8_evH_yTkxUqjVig7snRrYJRm/view?usp=share_link
  
  
• Gulestan & Rustom Billimoria Lecture by Prof. Naman Ahuja held on 27th February 2023 : 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JaOmgKBMlWhGPy1nWRuqAALqg6u38dE9/view?usp=share_link
  

• Eleventh Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture by Dr. Chithra Madhavan, Historian, on “Art and Architecture of the Pallavas - bearing on Society and Culture,” 
  Dr. Usha R Vijailakshmi, Professor of History, Patkar-Varde College & Vice President, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, presided at the lecture.:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AJBFvv1PqeOQJZ2LWcVOF_qewXs3-gGW/view?usp=share_link

• ASM LitClub talk by Dr Manil Suri held on 24-01-2023 : : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDuwkqMIYpeRQVoJOg7rgzVzGhmN8vkk/view?usp=share_link

• 33rd Nabadurga Banerji  Endowment Lecture held on 18th January 2023 by Dr. Choodamani Nandagopal, Art Historian, UNESCO Fellow & Tagore National Fellow, 
  on “Imagery of Female Messengers Dutikas/Sakhis in Indian Art, Thought and Literature.” : https://drive.google.com/file/d/18rDPm4XHpqWBFoMyQ9UAmrEYd7_jdDvI/view?usp=share_link
• Dr. Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture by Dr. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi held on 7th November 2022 : 1. https://youtu.be/8XMmBMNV3VE (part 1) / 2. https://youtu.be/0tP5zhoW544 ( part 2)
• Dr. Meera Kosambi Endowment Lecture : https://youtu.be/MqeLV8MLT8E
• The 12th B.G. Deshmukh Endowment Lecture (Online) delivered by Professor Bharat Karnad - YouTube held on 2nd March 2022 : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZvEZBUsEU
• The 24th Gulestan and Rustom Billimoria Endowment Lecture (Online) by Professor Vasant Shinde on 23rd February 2022 : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SuukxGXZmRo
• The 27th Bansari Sheth Memorial Lecture by Justice Gautam Patel  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnWx1GYcAs
  
• 23rd Gulestan and Rustom Billimoria Endowment Lecture delivered by Dr Jonathan Mark Kenoyer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugAURDFI5M
• 15th Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQWiREpJiI
• “The Ant who Swallowed the Sun - The Abhangs of the Marathi Women Saints” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46Yp-Uu0nI
• Nabadurga Banerjee Endownment Lecture by Dr. Radhika Seshan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTHBtfDfPQQ
• 9th Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture by Dr. Shrikant Bahulkar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NrTd0c2BlE
• Ninth Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture delivered by Professor Dr Phiroze Vasunia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_T9Pjn2M0
• 27th Justice K.T. Telang Memorial Lecture (online) by Dr Madhavi Kolhatkar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=immO1uO9uYk
• 11^th B G Desmukh Endowment Lecture by Mr. Harsh Mariwala, Chairman, Marico Industries : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskIs1YozpE 
• The 40th Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. P. V. Kane Memorial Lecture : https://youtu.be/iKhVHPUTYyk
• Dr. Usha Thakkar on the Congress Radio: Voice of Freedom in 1942 : https://youtu.be/c1xNJfAOwWs
• Maharashtra through Maps Session I - Palghar to Sindhudurg with Sudhakar Solomonraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZyHm9wbgU&feature=youtu.be
• Maharashtra through Maps Session II - Khandesh to Western Ghats with Sudhakar Solomonra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuG-2BliqQY&ab_channel=MumbaiFestival
• Maharashtra through Maps Session III - Marathwada with Sudhakar Solomonraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vpcXMU2Xu
• Maharashtra through Maps Session IV - Vidarbha with Sudhakar Solomonraj : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vc2EEpTqA&ab_channel=MumbaiFestival
• Two Hundred Years of Mumbai na Shamachar: Public Address by Berjis Desai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ymryQyE9o
• Congress Radio - Voice of Freedom in 1942 : https://youtu.be/c1xNJfAOwWs
• From Bombay to Bokhara: India and Afghanistan in the Age of Empire : https://youtu.be/rzS3k5pn1cI
• 32nd Nabadurga Banerji Lecture held on 15th November 2021 : https://youtu.be/_doJBtEGjDQ 
• The 16th Dr. Mani Kamerkar Endowment Lecture “Early Christian Sailing Circuits in the Western Indian Ocean,’ held on 4th January 2022. : https://drive.google.com/file/d/16E0hyiUBudOJMk16DwD7e8edZEoTXEkE/view
• 32nd Nabadurga Banerji Endowment Lecture “Radio, academies, public concerts and the staging of modern Indian classical music: a case for new socio-aesthetic categories,” on 15th November 2021 : https://youtu.be/_doJBtEGjDQ
• 13^th Professor L. B. Kenny Endowment Lecture (Online) by Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University, on ‘Architecture and Planning in a  Time of FLUX’
     held on 17th January 2022. : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VwBj0hVix0WZ6rz57dRpo8_Eu2F_Z-aD/view?ts=61eb787a
• Professor Jyotindra Jain: The Ferocious Consort ( 10 th Durga Bhagwat Endowment Lecture) : https://youtu.be/Yi8pcrOrnps

Lit Club Lecture : https://youtu.be/_doJBtEGjDQ

• The Ranakpur temple ( Justice K T Telang lecture by Dr. Saryu Doshi) :
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uxJkdErgYz0rpsGbql3q7o5OIVAegpk8/view?usp=share_link
  
• Recording of Lit Club talk by Sunil Shanbag : 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RWEqEfh6g98g1RsmIAY3am21RB74b8TU/view?usp=share_link
• Lit Club Lecture: The Heritage of the Kakatiyas of Warangal - Dr. Varsha Shirgaonkar 
  Youtube link :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmhNU-bQnc&feature=youtu.be

Aroon Tikekar Fellowship Award and Guest Lecture

• 5th Dr Aroon Tikekar Memorial Fellowship - Award & Guest Lecture : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3SK_jbb2E&

MRC Lectures

• Gerald Aungier (1640-1677), President of Surat and the 2nd Governor of Bombay (1669-1677), succeeding George Oxenden : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJnCT6gMsYRT7CJmboiaCTvciwg_rDzB/view?usp=share_link
• Shokhiyon mein ghola jaye... A Musical programme on Dev Anand. Concept and presentation Manek Premchand : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14wkd00jjEvdWyADtT7g8szGTtKHbyhUF?usp=sharing
•  Bombay Memorabilia (Part I) by Rajan Jayakar :  https://youtu.be/RZJKOPJMeNs
•  Bombay Memorabilia (Part II) by Rajan Jayakar : https://youtu.be/M7rg9gitkS0
• MRC Public Lecture - The Story of Bombay Through Philately by Pascal Roque Lopes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rMU07YwDY
• In Search of the Unknown - A Photographic Talk by Bharath Ramarutham : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDDjXldXwY
• Seeing Time - Public Clocks of Bombay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRyrPVKGlLg
• Orientation - The Geography of Belief : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdQbhFVeDCI
• From Tents Shows to the Lost Cinemas - The Story of Bombay's Early Film Culture by Sharon Irani : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6-oDStWOw
• Jashn - Literature Panel Discussion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OXNTl0Zco
• Jashn- Forgotten Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duexhujh7u0
• Jashn - Ranjit Hoskote - Alkazi in 1950s Bombay : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4oJBk-7-Pk
• Jashn – Masala Trail with Anjali Koli : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vqH6OXkk4&
• Jashn – Closing Ceremony and Valedictory Address by Gyan Prakash : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3cuY4QvpE
• Jashn - The Story of Mumbai through Puppets : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hba1khK-eY
• Jashn - TRANSLATING THE CITY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uGTIljCHM0
• Jashn - BOMBAY EK GEET : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8lWv-gFeWQ
• Jashn - HERITAGE, CONSERVATION AND DEMOCRACY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMEQBWrr5yo
• DASTAAN MUMBAI MEIN THEATRE KE AMAD KA : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qCDl-QyM8
• Jashn - RIVERS OF BOMBAY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZrwDGTWXg
• Jashn - LIVE DEMO OF GRANTH SANJEEVANI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJ0phEB3ig
• Jashn - LOOK UP MUMBAI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEPqwXvzK4
• Jashn- THE OTHER MUMBAI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8YHNHbBveM
• Jashn - A GLIMPSE INTO THE ASIATIC SOCIETY : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V2tKWttic0
• Jashn - WATER WALK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jK30Jq9yow
• Jashn - A MARITIME VOYAGE OF MUMBAI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=278ivj_F1Jk
• Jashn - KEYNOTE ADDRESS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLrz1tin5kE
• Jashn Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1ZSsBVZts
• Jashn – Christopher London (Original) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZdz9D0rrU
• Jashn-e-Dastaan-e-Mumbai Live with Rochelle Potkar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnKeQtUhOY

Foundation Day

• 217th Foundation Day Lectures by Jim Masselos and Arvind Ganachari : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_uYPdoeV4
• Conservation of Old Books in the Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZCZn3xyr4
• Rare Books and Microfilming in the Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvxeftcfEsw
• Binding of Old Books in the Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izVaXufSjQ
• Governor of Maharashtra visits Asiatic Society of Mumbai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJrIADNrT68
• Granth Sanjeevani : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3UxTfBopsA
  
  
• Street Fauna and the Ecology of Mumbai : https://youtu.be/jwQ3OXhLyO4
• Naturally Mumbai: A Tribute to Sunderlal Bahuguna : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9d744Kdh3Q&ab_channel=MumbaiFestival
• Caring for Life: the Cipla Story since 1935  : https://youtu.be/LLScHbU5vrM
• Regenerating India's Ecological Civilization and Aranya Sanskriti" by Dr. Vandana Shiva" : https://youtu.be/QeAtggC6ePg
• Farokh Udwadia on "Medicine in Bombay Through the Ages": https://youtu.be/m-U_6X4dVVI