PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival

By Ajay Chhibber and Salman Anees Soz (HarperCollins, 2021)

Discussants: Prof. Sudipto Mundle, Senior Adviser, NCAER and former Professor Emeritus, NIPFP; Prof. Amita Batra, Professor of Economics, Centre for South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRIER; and Dr. Ajay Chhibber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, IIEP, George Washington University and author of the book

Chair: Shri Nitin Desai, Chairman, TERI and former Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UN

Unlocking Digital Competition and Innovation

Speaker: Prof. Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University, USA 

Chair: Dr. Anupam Khanna, former Chief Economist and Director-General of Policy Outreach, NASSCOM

Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed (UK) | Click here to watch
(59 min; 2021; English)
Director: Peter Chinn

An exceptional documentary covering a series of archaeological excavations between 2014 and 2018 that aimed to trace the quarry of the Stonehenge bluestones. While the stones' origin in the Wels Preseli Hills was suspected for a century, pinpointing the precise location seemed a long shot. The actual discovery and dating of the Neolithic quarry was an exceptional achievement, but it further led to the revelation that the stones were extracted four centuries earlier than their arrival at Stonehenge and thus could have been set up in a separate monument in the intervening period. Further excavations in the region were undertaken to find the location of this lost site and the evidence for its connection with the Stonehenge bluestones.

The documentary collects footage from multiple video diaries recorded over the many excavation seasons and builds a consistent narrative, documenting the progress of the search, the highs and lows and the methods applied.

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Stonehenge%3A+The+Los…

The Secret History of Writing, a three-part BBC 4 documentary series presented by Lydia Wilson.
Wilson, an academic and journalist who is also the editor of the Cambridge Literary Review, started off by looking at the moment when writing with pictures transformed into writing with words, a quest that centred on the Rebus, a puzzle or pun in which pictures are used to represent words.

So who did create writing as we know it? As Wilson discovered, this was an entertainingly fraught topic that continues to be debated passionately by Egyptologists and specialists in Mesopotamian culture. The fascinating story that finally unfolded revealed that while some things stay the same (a hieroglyph on an Egyptian sapphire mine turned out to be a series of complaints about weather and working conditions), the smallest moment can change the world.

Series 1: From Pictures to Words | Click here to watch
(59 min; 2020; English)
Director: David Sington

The hunt for the origin of writing reveals the link between ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the letters we use every day.

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=From+Pictures+to+Words

The Great Composers: Tchaikovsky | Click here to watch
(58 min; 1997; English)
Written & Directed by Simon Broughton

The Great Composers is a BBC documentary series narrated by Kenneth Branagh, presenting the lives and works of some of important figures in Western music, with outstanding performances, dramatizations, and insightful interviews with respected artists and scholars.

This film explores the life and times of the great Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky against a background of orchestral performance of the highlights of his most popular works.

A BBC documentary series presented by art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon, exploring Russian art from the origins of the Russian icon from its roots in Byzantium to today. The series consists of three episodes: the first episode "Out of the Forest" explores the origins of the Russian icon from its roots in Byzantium; the second episode "Roads to Revolution" tells of how art moved from being a servant of the state to an agent of its destruction; and the third and final episode "Smashing the Mould" looks at Russian art from the early revolutionary days in 1920s, through World War Two and the Cold War, today.

Episode 3 - Smashing the Mould | Click hereto watch
(49 min; English)
Director: Karen McGann

This episode looks at Russian art from the early revolutionary days in 1920s, through World War Two and the Cold War, to today: Sculptures and posters created under Communist rule, the insides of a giant erotic apple, etc.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/the-art-of-russia/?video_index=2

(59 min; 1987; English and with subtitles)
Produced and Directed by David Thomas

2022 marks the centenary year of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. 

The documentary features readings by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins.  The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in Europe. In the film, Professor Frank Kermode, of Cambridge University; Eliot biographer Peter Ackroyd; and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot’s influential poem, analyse its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness: An Ecological and Public Health Response

Panelists: Dr. Suneela Garg, Director, Professor and Head, Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Hospitals; Shri Pranay Lal, biochemist and artist who works in public health and environment; and author of Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses; and Prof. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, Scientist, National Science Chair and author of the book Decoding the Pandemic

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India