Those were the Days: Tales from the 15th Finance Commission

By Ashok K. Lahiri (Rupa Publications India; 2022)

Discussants: Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Minister of Finance & Human Resource Management, Tamil Nadu; Shri Sushil Modi, former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar; Shri N.K. Singh, Economist and former Member of the Rajya Sabha; Shri Manpreet Singh Badal, former Finance Minister, Punjab; Shri Arvind Mehta, Secretary, Fifteen Finance Commission; and Shri Ashok K. Lahiri, former Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India and author of the book

Chair: Shri Raghav Bahl, Founder Network 18 and Bloomberg Quint

CANCELLED 

(30 min; 2022; English)
Director: Sujay 

Premiere screening of the first documentary on the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946. Using forgotten footage sourced from the Imperial War Museum and Cambridge University in the UK and press clippings from India and Pakistan, and juxtaposing this material with expert narrations of this story of valour. The Last Push reconstructs the mutiny by Royal Indian Navy ratings, which shook the British Raj in its sunset months and hastened its decision to leave India to Indians.

(Collaboration: IANS India Private Limited)

(96 min; 2007; English)
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi 

Multiple award winner including Jury Prize & Palm Dog, Cannes Film Festival 2007; César for Best Adapted Screenplay & Best First Film, César Awards, France 2008; NYFCC Award for Best Animated Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2007; Audience Award for Best Foreign Feature Film, São Paulo International Film Festival 2008; among others

Based on Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film traces Satrapi's growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the growing tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s, with members of her liberal-leaning family detained and then executed, and the background of the disastrous Iran/Iraq war.
 

Lecture and demonstration presented by Subhasis Sabyasachi, Bamboo artist, and Junior Research Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India who has been involved in a unique research developing bamboo musical instruments. 

Bamboo instruments to be demonstrated and played include, tabla, guitar, sitar, xylophone, violin, flute and mridangam. The repertoire includes folk, classical and Rabindra Sangeet
 

A journey with Subhasis Sabyasachi, bamboo artist
On display are eco-friendly bamboo musical instruments, toys, lamp shades and other objects of everyday use
 
Preview on Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 18.30
 
 

Ashwati Parmeshwar, soprano and Sviatlana Radashkevich, pianist, present melodies across genres, from the Classical to Christmas  

(Women – An epitome of power and strength)

Talk by Chief Acharya H.H. Swami Avdheshanand Giri

Inauguration by By Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

(Collaboration: Ladli Foundation)

Speakers: Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Partha Sen, former Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics; Prof. Farzana Afridi, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute and Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (joins from Singapore); Prof. Vikas Rawal, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr Zakaria Siddiqui, Visiting Fellow, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram (joins from Canberra)

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Is there any reasonable prospect of the Covid pandemic marking a transition from industrial stagnation to industrial revival? Post-Covid the bottom end of the income distribution is struggling. What is the macroeconomic policy framework? In this is there a role for pro-poor growth? Has the allocation for public health and public education increased? What is the state of employment in India? Is India facing a crisis in its labour market? The agricultural sector continues to remain in a neglected catastrophic mess: agriculture’s share in India’s economy is less than 15% but two-thirds of India’s families depend on rural incomes and the majority of India’s poor live in rural areas. Is chronic hunger widespread in India? Do statistics on hunger and food insecurity correctly capture the Indian reality? Why do Indian children continue to suffer from malnutrition? What is the evidence from National Family Health Survey-5?

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)