About
Sunit Tandon is Director of the India Habitat Centre and President of the Delhi Music Society. Former positions include Director General of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication; Chief Executive of the Lok Sabha Television Channel; Festival Director, International Film Festival of India (IFFI, Goa); General Manager, National Film Development Corporation, amongst others. A prominent face on Indian television as a news anchor on Doordarshan and LSTV for thirty years from the late 80s onwards, he is also a radio broadcaster and has written music, theatre and book reviews. He continues to be a theatre actor, director, sound designer and enthusiast, having directed over 25 productions and acted in about 200. He has also done the stage direction of 3 western classical opera productions. Recently, he has appeared in a few mainstream Hindi feature films as well, including Dil Bechara and Bell Bottom.
ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: Museums as Time Machines, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta. Moderated by Sunit Tandon
ABHIRANG: World Upside Down: How India is Recalibrating its Geopolitics, Sujan R. Chinoy in conversation with Pankaj Saran and Shishir Priyadarshi
VAGARTH: Spies, Art & Terrorism, Tarun Mehrishi in conversation with Rishi Shukla and Dr Pradeep Kapoor
ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: Influence of Western Classical Music and Theatre on Modern Indian Arts by Sunit Tandon. Moderated by Shailaja Srinivasan
ABHIRANG: Modern Indian Poetry: Jamshed and Tajender Singh Luthra in conversation with Vertul Singh
VAGARTH: Fireside Chat: Being a Successful Diplomat, what it takes: Ajay Bisaria in conversation with Dr Neha Jain