A six part BBC series with Michael Mosley who takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.

Episode 1: What is Out There? (60 min) | Click here to watch
Director: Jeremy Turner

Michael Mosley begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history - how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe. He reveals the critical role of medieval astrologers in changing our view of the heavens, and the surprising connections to the upheavals of the Renaissance, the growth of coffee shops and Californian oil and railway barons. Mosley shows how important the practical skills of craftsmen have been to this story and finds out how...

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(58 min; 2008; English)
Director: Harry Hook

BBC documentary presented by Griff Rhys Jones

From his modest rural roots in Dorset, Thomas Hardy became one of the most celebrated writers in the world. Jones reveals how Hardy drew on his own emotionally-charged personal life to create some of the most memorable characters and stories in English literature.

Ft. report launch from the High-level Policy Commission on Getting Asia to Net Zero

Speakers: Hon. Kevin Rudd AC, President and CEO, Asia Society; President, Asia Society Policy Institute and 26th Prime Minister of Australia; Hon. Ban Ki-moon, President and Chair, Global Green Growth Institute; Eight Secretary-General (2007-2016), United Nations; and Mr. Vivek Pathak, Global Head and Director of Climate Business, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC and formerly Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change

Welcome Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

This programme brings together three founding members of the High-level Policy Commission on Getting Asia to Net Zero, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; and Global Head and Director of Climate Business, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Vivek Pathak, along with former Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change, Shyam Saran to discuss India’s path to net zero emissions and the opportunities that it presents. It will include the launch of a report from the Commission which draws on new modelling to examine how India can achieve net zero emissions in a manner that is beneficial to its economy, society, and place in the world. The discussion comes ahead of a pivotal moment for Asian and Indian leadership especially, with India assuming the G20 Presidency in 2023 and the Asia-Pacific Group hosting COP28.

(Collaboration: Asia Society Policy Institute )

SATTRIYA RECITAL at 6 pm
By Krishnakshi Kashyap and Group from Guwahati, disciple of Guru Jatin Goswami and Guru Ramkrishna Talukdar

MOHINIATTAM RECITAL at 7 pm
By Malavika Menon from Kerela, disciple of Smt. Vinitha Nedungadi
Accompanists: Kottakkal Madhu on Vocal; Kallekulangara Unnikrishnan on Mridangam ; Suresh Ambadi on Violin
 

IIC Monsoon Festival of Dance

ODISSI RECITAL at 6 pm
By Lipsa Satpathy from Delhi, disciple of Guru Bichitrananda Swain and Guru Aruna Mohanty

KUCHIPUDI RECITAL at 7 pm 
By Moutushi Majumder, Bobby Chakravorty, Washim Raja from Delhi, disciples of Guru Vanashree Rao

"You ain't got a thing, if you don't have that swing . . ." Jazz culture 1900- 1950
Illustrated presentation by Sambudha Sen
 
This lecture will embed jazz (and its progenitor, the blues) in black communities settled in the great American cities especially in New Orleans, New York and Chicago. It will focus on that unique combination of the blue note and swing that is central to both jazz and the blues and show how the radically ambiguous experience of deprivation and joyousness determined a great many characteristics of jazz culture: for example the tension between the self-destructive lifestyles of individual musicians and the incessant collaborations between them and their instruments that drove the evolution of this great musical tradition.
  
Sambudha Sen is professor at Shiv Nadar University where he taught a course called Understanding Jazz

DHRUPAD ARNAV II

Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Abhijeet Sukhdane

Followed by
Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Pushpraj Koshti (surbahar)

DHRUPAD ARNAV II
Dhrupad festival organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation
Curated by Pt. Nirmalya Dey

Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Manoj Solanke (pakhawaj)

Followed by
Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Madhu Bhatt Tailang 

A discussion based on the new book co-edited by Nayanika Mathur and Ravinder Kaur (Penguin)

Panelists: Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Satish Deshpande, University of Delhi; Ravinder Kaur, Copenhagen University; and Nayanika Mathur, Oxford University

Chair: Amita Baviskar, Ashok University

‘The People’ and ‘New India’ are terms that are being invoked freely to both understand and govern India as she enters her 75th year of post-colonial nationhood. Yet, there is little clarity on who these people of India really are, what they do, their desires, histories and attachments to India. Similarly, the phrase ‘New India’ is used far too loosely to explain away a dangerously confounding politics. In this book, some of the most respected scholars of South Asia come together to write about a person or a concept that holds particular sway in the politics of contemporary India. In doing so, they collectively open up an original understanding of what the politics at the heart of New India are – and how best we might come to analyse them.
  
(Collaboration: Ashoka University; and Penguin India)
 

(73 min; 2022; Hindustani/English with English subtitles)
Director: Aditi Desai

The film will be introduced by Aditi Desai

Screening will be followed by a discussion 

This documentary film is based on Aditi Desai’s 50-year long journey as a major collector of vintage Kashmiri and European shawls. Based on her intensive research, fieldwork and knowlge, the film documents the social and cultural history of Kashmir and its legendary Pashmina and patterned Kani shawls; museum quality Kashmir and European shawls from her collection; and also draws attention to the art and craft of the invisible but highly skilled crafts persons, the Najibabadi rafugars