Tribes of India: Realities and Representations

Edited by Ruby Bhardwaj and Charu Kala (Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi: 2022)

Discussants: Prof. Nandini Sundar, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Prof. Swati Pal, Principal, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi; Dr. Veio Pou, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi; Dr. Ruby Bhardwaj, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi and Co-Editor of the book; Dr. Charu Kala, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi

Chair: Prof. Anvita Abbi, linguist and scholar

(113 min; 2019; Malawi/English and with subtitles)
Written, Directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2019; Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture, Image Awards (NAACP) 2020; and Fiction Grand Award, International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights 2019

Based on the memoir of the same name by Malawian innovator William Kamkwamba (co-written by journalist Bryan Mealer), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind tells the remarkable story of how, as a largely self-taught techno-wizard, William (played by Maxwell Simba) saved his village from famine by building a wind turbine from scrap metal and bike parts

Lost Worlds: The Search for Troy (UK) | Click here to watch
(49 min; 2002; English)
Director: Nigel Maslin

For centuries archaeologists have tried to find the legendary city of Troy but without success. Troy is famous as the scene of the Trojan War, the fight for the world’s most beautiful woman, Helen and the ruse that won her back, the Trojan Horse.

It is a story that has been told and retold by poets and actors for thousands of years but is it real? Did the city of Troy actually exist? A century ago a pioneer archaeologist claimed he had found the site of Troy, but while the public was satisfied the experts were not. Now a team of archaeologists has returned to the same site in a dig that spans the past 15 years, they have made discoveries which are both dramatic and controversial but at the heart of their work one question persists have they found the lost world of Troy?

https://documentaryheaven.com/search-for-troy/
 

Series director: Adrian Pennink
Recipient of the International Emmy 2008 for Best Documentary 

A six-part documentary presented by Niall Ferguson. Based on his book The Ascent of Money: The Financial History of the World, the film examines the long history of money, credit, and banking. Throughout the series, Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial systems, and how behind every great historical phenomenon – empires and republics, wars and revolutions – there lies a financial secret.

Episode 2: Human Bondage (47 min)
How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschilds the richest and most powerful family of the 19th century.

(81 min; 2004; English)
Director: Jessica Yu

Recipient of the Best Documentary Feature Award, Ojai Film Festival 2004; and Best Documentary Feature Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2004

In The Realms Of The Unreal is an intriguing portrait of the double-life of outsider artist Henry Darger. By day Darger worked as a hospital janitor, and by night he toiled away in his Chicago apartment on his fantastical paintings and writings, which were only discovered upon his death in 1983. With actors reading from Darger's literary texts, alongside animated sequences of his artwork, Jessica Yu's documentary immerses us in the world of a reclusive individual's bizarre imagination.

Last Train Home (Gui tu lie che/China) | Click here to watch
(90 min; 2009; Chinese with English subtitles)
Director: Lixin Fan

Multiple award winner including Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Outstanding Achievemnt in Production; Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography; & Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film, Cinema Eye Honors Awards, USA 2011; Best Feature-Length Documentary Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2009; Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2010 for Best Documentary Feature Film; among others

A deeply moving look at an unavoidably fractured family, Lixin Fan’s documentary follows a clan of Chinese migrant workers separated by economic circumstance. The heart of the film is the shaky relationship between the sweatshop-employed parents and their defiant teenage daughter, who ekes out a meagre big city existence.

https://archive.org/details/xtm-lth

(120 min; 2006; English)
Director: Ric Burns

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright - set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art. More than a biography of the greatest literary genius the American theatre has produced, this American Experience production is a moving meditation on loss and redemption, family and memory, the cost of being an artist, and the inescapability of the past. It is also a penetrating exploration of the masterpieces O'Neill created only at the very end of his career - The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Reconceptualizing the Sciences and the Humanities: An Integral Approach

By S.C. Malik (Manohar Publishers and Distributors)

Discussants: Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar, poet, critic and Academic; Prof. Aditya Malik, Vice Chancellor & Dean, Academic Affairs, Plaksha University and former Vice Chancellor, K.R. Mangalam University, Haryana; and Prof. S.C. Malik, former UGC Professor and author of the book

 Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

Bharathi

Celebrating Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiyar, legendary poet 

Lecture-demonstration followed by a Bharatanatyam group recital
Choreographed by Guru Dr. Saroja Vaidyanathan

From 17:30 to 18:15
Lecture-Demonstration

By Dr. Rajkumar Bharathi, eminent musician and great grandson on Mahavi Subramaniya Bharathi

At 18:30
Bharatanatyam Recital

Group performance by artists of Ganesa Natyalaya, disciples of Guru Smt. Saroja Vaidyanathan

Artists: Gayatri Deka; Sudhana Sankar; Mrinal Sharma; Akansha Rana; Mridula Nambiar; Debasmita Thakur; Priyanka Rawat; Srishti Mohan; Pooja Pithambharan; Varsha Chand; and Aishwarya Attri

(Collaboration: Ganesa Natyalaya)