Dr. Prakash Amte – The Real Hero

(137 min; 2014; Marathi with English subtitles)

Director: Samruddhi Porey

With Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe

Young Prakash graduates as a Bachelorette in Medicine. Instead of settling down to a comfortable city life along with his wife Manda, they both moved to a most backward area of Maharashtra. From government apathy to Naxal threats, from US Visa refusal on account of financial issues relating to civilian honour Padmashree…the film is an incredible true story of hope, courage and compassion

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritik ani Rannaniti Adhyayan Samiti)

Coordinator: Shri Siraj Hussain

Employment Situation in India in Post-Covid Times: Will Agriculture Continue to be the largest Employer?
Speaker: Dr. Santosh Mehrotra, Professor of Economics, Centre for Labour, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author and editor of several books including the recently published Reviving Jobs: An Agenda for Growth (Vintage Books)

Chair: Shri Siraj Hussain, Promoter Director, Arcus Policy Research Private Ltd.

Hindustani Violin Recital

By Shubham Sarkar from Delhi, disciple of Dr. Santosh Nahar and Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya

At 19:00
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital 
By Arindam Mukhopadhyay from Delhi, disciple of Pt Madhup Mudgal
 

By Sabina Mumtaz Islam from Kolkata, disciple of Janab Jainul Abedin and later the later Pt. Sunil Bose and recipient of the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship

Accompanists: Pt. Vinod Lele (tabla); and Dr. Vinay Mishra (harmonium)

(Collaboration: Sanskriti Foundation)
 

Lifestyle and Liver

Speaker: Dr. Ajay Kumar, Chairman and Head of Department, BLK-Max Institute of Digestive & Liver Diseases, Chairman – Pan Max – Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Liver like the heart, kidney, and lungs is a vital organ of the human body. Thus to keep the body healthy, it is important to also keep the liver healthy. For this, it is important to be aware of and practice what is good for the body. Liver diseases are on the rise in India and across the world. A large number of these diseases can be prevented, if we practice the right lifestyle, consume clean water, nutritious food & practice selective prevention by immunization.

Dr. Ajay Kumar has wide knowledge and experience in this field. He will reflect upon the importance of all the issues which impact our liver and thus impact our body's health and well-being.
 

Three books will be discussed

Journey of a Nation: 75 years of Indian Economy – Re-emerge, Reinvest, Re-engage 
By Sanjaya Baru (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of Foreign Policy - War, Peace and a World Realigned 
By Madhav Das Nalapat (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of Indian Sports – Game, Guts, Glory
By Chandresh Narayanan (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Authors of the three volumes will speak: Dr. Sanjaya Baru, formerly Editor, The Financial Express and Business Standard, and former media advisor to former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh; Prof. Madhav Das Nalapat, India’s first Professor of Geopolitics and subsequently the UNESCO Peace Chair, Manipal University, and formerly Editor, The Times of India; Shri Chandresh Narayanan, independent cricket author, writer and broadcaster who currently writes for Dainik Bhaskar and is the author of World Cup Heroes

Discussants: Shri Vikrant Gupta, journalist and Managing Editor, Sport Aajtak; and Dr. Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRIER

Chair: Prof. S.D. Muni, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Ambassador and Special Envoy
 

Conceptualised by Dr. Ashwani Kumar

From 10:00 to 13:00
Screening Workshop on Eye Diseases Leading to Blindness
Screening workshop for refractive error, glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration with stations for IOP measurement, Fundus examination and refraction. The workshop includes a public awareness programme about eye donation  

Open to IIC members and staff members of IIC

At 16:00
Can you Prevent Blindness? The Avoidable Blindness: Preventable and Treatable
Speaker: Dr. Jeewan S. Titiyal, Chief and Professor of Ophthalmalogy, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar

The talk will address the various causes of blindness that can be avoided and which are both preventable and treatable across different age groups. The important causes of preventable blindness among children including corneal scars due to vitamin A deficiency, infections, injuries, iatrogenic etc. as well as treatable causes such as paediatric cataract, glaucoma, retinopathy of prematurity and uncorrected refractive errors. The leading causes of avoidable blindness among the adult population including cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, age related macular degeneration and uncorrected refractive errors.

A curated package of films by women directors from Ukraine organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio and Television, India Chapter and Ukrainian Female Film Industry

FILM FESTIVAL POSTER

FILMS SYNOPSES

Introduction

14:30 to 15:45: Fiction Shorts (I)
Оh! (Olga Zolotareva/Ukrainian /16:37 min)
A family sets out for a visit to the countryside. The children squabble in the back of the car, distracting their parents. Somehow, an old woman ends up riding with them. And then... 

Doors (Natalia Davydenko/Ukrainian /9:31 min)
A young man rides through a vast desert landscape. His bike breaks down. And he is faced with a choice. This short leavens metaphor and philosophy with dark humour and optimism. 

Seed (Ksenia Bugrimova/no dialogue/23:10 min)
A woman buys a special seed which she plants in a barrel and nurtures in secret, in this non-verbal short.  Fantasies mingle with reality... until things take an unexpected turn.

Hermit Crab Master Of Escape (Larissa Gutarevych/Ukrainian/20:29 min) 
Vitalina is 13 years old, at a new school, and her parents are getting divorced. And then her pet crab adds to the confusion, but ensuing events bring solace and insight.

A Hanging Coffee (Oksana Taranenko/Ukrainian/5:50 min)
A stylised fable-like sequence of events set in a coffee shop on a rainy morning. More than coffee hangs in the balance in this hangout space. 

15:45 - 16:15: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

16:45 - 18:00: Film  
The Earth is Blue as an Orange (Iryna Tsilyk/Ukrainian & Russian/2020/74 min)
Against the background of an ongoing historical conflict, Anna and her children make a film together about their life, to cope with their daily trauma and surreal surroundings. Winner at Sundance for Direction, this documentary has won many more awards – best film, direction, cinematography – at major international film festivals.

18:00 - 18:30: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

18:30 - 19:30: Fiction Shorts (II)
Solatium (Christina Tynkevych/Ukrainian & Russian /10:43 min)
Anna, an ambulance doctor, responds to a night call which brings back a painful past and challenges her moral compass.

Man (Oksana Artemenko/Ukrainian /6:20 min)
When a father is called to fight for his country, his toddler decides to be a grown-up for mother’s sake. A family vignette with an unexpected visual ending.   

Broken (Solomia Tomaschuk/ /Ukrainian /20:16 min)
Two old acquaintances home from the army meet on a suburban bus. Their unfolding interactions show how you can leave the war, but war leaves its imprint on you. The short expressively conveys their need for support and yet the need to appear strong; their vulnerability is shot through with moments of grace. 

Heartbreaker (Oleksandra Brovchenko/no dialogue/5:14min)
A delicious non-verbal romance plays out in the unlikely setting of supermarket aisles and counters.  

Unwanted People (Loolie Mamontenko/Ukrainian/2021/15:19 min)
This stunningly filmed short with minimal dialogue strikes deep emotional chords, through the two contrasting worlds that Ludmila inhabits (three, if we include her dream and fantasies) – the nightclub where she works, and her home where she is alone yet not alone, both linked by her walks through a hard wintry landscape. 

19:30 - 20:00: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers