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.

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(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)
 

A concert of old film songs by the well-known lyricist and poet, Sahir Ludhianvi

Artists: Bhupinder Bhupi; Dolly Narang; Anupama Malhotra; Fanish Pawar; Parminder Chadha; Anushruti Pawar; Alok Sahdev; and others

Compere and sutradhar: Seema Verma

(Collaboration: Sakha Cultural Society)
 

An Evening of Poetry

With poets – Devi Prasad Mishra (Delhi); Vihag Vaibhav (Varanasi); Archana Tripathi (Delhi); and Adnan Kafeel Darvesh (Delhi/Ballia, tbc)  who will read from their original work

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Mandar Gadgil from Pune, disciple of Pt. Vijay Koparkar
Accompanists: Kshitij (harmonium); and Saptak Sharma (tabla)

At 19:00
Bharatanatyam Recital  

By Samrat Dutta from Kolkata, disciple of Prof C.V. Chandrasekhar

Accompanists: Mohana Iyer on Nattuvangam; Anand R. Jayaraman on Violin; Brinda Radhakrishnan on Vocal; Shankar Narayanaswamy on Mridangam; Rupak Mukherjee on Flute; Debopam Das with Narration

Premiere performance by Ruchika Theatre Company
Directed and designed by Feisal Alkazi

Cast: Gayatri, Gunjan, Manvi, Arnav, Deepak, Dhruv, Raghav, Ritvik, Shashank and Vatsal

The migrant, either running away from disaster or war, whether from Syria or Ukraine or from Covid in our own country, is the most eloquent image of our century. In China from 1980 to 2015 the one child policy created a unique new breed of migrants, the ‘family planning refugees.’ Based on a novel by Ma Jian, the play explores the story of a young couple Meili and Kongzi as they travel down the Yangtze to try and escape. 

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

How Agnivir will Affect India-Nepal Relations

Panelists: Amb. Ranjit Rae, former Indian Ambassador to Nepal; Maj. Gen. (retd.) B.S. Ghotra, former Colonel, 5 Gorkha Rifles (FF); Maj. Gen. (retd.) Gopal Gurung, former Military Secretary to COAS Gen. Dalbir Suhag; and Naib Sub Khem Jung Gurung, Member of the Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal 

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta