Panelists: Prof. G.C. Khilnani, Chairman, PSRI Institute of Pulmonology, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, public health and policy expert, lead author of the bestseller, Till We Win: India’s Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic (co-authored with Randeep Guleria & Gangandeep Kang); Dr. Gangandeep Kang, Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore; and Prof. Maninder Agrawal, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, IIT, Kanpur
 
Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India
 

Inaugural Address: Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, Chairman, Sarvodaya International Trust

Valedictory Address: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Session I (11 am to 1 pm)

Invocation (Vaishnava janato) by Smt Neha Vats Khankriyal

Speakers: Shri M. Hamid Ansari, former Vice President of India; Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Dr. Gita Dharampal, Professor Emeritus, Heidelberg University, Germany

Session II  (4 pm – 6 pm) |   Click here to watch Session  II

Speakers: Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Chairman, Gandhi Foundation, UK; Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC; and Amb. Alan Nazareth, author Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership and Gandhi: Soul Force Warrrior

Sarod rendition of Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Moderator: Shri Arun Maira, former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya International Trust)

Coordinator: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Threat and Perceptions in the Himalayas: India, Bhutan and China 

Panelists: Amb. V.P. Haran, former Indian Ambassador to Bhutan; Lt. Gen. P.J. S. Pannu, former Additional Director General, Military Operations; and Dr. Nihar Nayak, Senior Research Fellow, M.P. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

Two countries that enjoy the closest bilateral relations are India and Bhutan; historically bound by the Treaty of Perpetual Peace and Friendship 1949 / 2007. Common security is the foundational principle of the treaty. India and Bhutan are also two countries with which China has not resolved its border. The panelists will discuss the opportunities and challenges of these ties.

Role of Private Sector and the Media in Eradicating Child Labour

Panelists: Tanja Brok, Communications Coordinator, Work: No Child’s Business, the Hague, The Netherlands; Dr. Shankar Borua, creative entrepreneur and communications professional; and Smita Agarwal, Head, Education Programme at Tata Steel’s Corporate Social Responsibility who has worked in the field of education for over two decades

Introduction: Aditi Datta, Senior Manager-Research and Communications, ICCSPL

Moderator: Rakhi Sehgal, labour researcher and trade union activist who is currently coordinating an ILO project on industrial relations in the Indian garment industry

Third and final discussion in a series of three dialogues addressing the root causes of child labour organised in collaboration with Work: No Child’s Business (WNCB) to mark International Year for Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL – 2021). 

EARTHWORM TRACTORS (USA)
(69 min; 1936; b/w; English)
Director: Ray Enright

With Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee

Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really know anything about tractors, and since the old-fashioned Johnson is opposed to tractors of any kind, it isn't going to be an easy sell. But Botts perseveres, encouraged by Johnson's daughter. 

The film has some amazing sequences that make viewers wonder how they were executed especially since special effects technology was not that well developed. The first one involves Alexander Botts giving the prospective client, Sam Johnson a demonstration and we watch the tractor practically destroy everything in sight! 

https://archive.org/details/Earthworm_Tractors_movie
or
https://youtu.be/zk12-PZKtg0

A 4-part series directed by David Wallace for BBC2/PBS with the English historian and broadcaster, Michael Wood. The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the ‘New World’, and few stories in history can match these for drama and endurance.

In Conquistadors, Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of the greatest of the Spanish adventurers travelling from the forests of Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, the deserts of North Mexico, the snowpeaks of the Andes and the heights of Machu Picchu. He experiences the epic journeys of Cortes, Pizarro, Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca, and explores the turbulent and terrifying events surrounding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires.

Conquistadores: The Search for El Dorado (49 min) | Click here to watch

Michael Wood tells the story of the ill-dated Spanish expedition of 1541, to find mythical lands of gold. After crossing the Andes, Wood and his team build a raft and sail down the river Napo before following the route of the Conquistadors to the head waters of the river Amazon. Tracing one of the great voyages of exploration Wood tells how the Spaniards were the first outsiders to see Amazonia and the first to discover and travel the length of the river, an achievement which was ‘less of a journey and more of a miracle’.

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

Fermat’s Last Theorem (UK) | Click here to watch
(48m min; 1996; English)
Director: Simon Singh

Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten- year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind - to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries. 

A documentary about mathematics and mathematicians, but also about childhood dreams, ambition, obsession, passion, failure and triumph. 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1btavd

(59 min; 1999; English and with subtitles)
Director: Paul Smaczny

Préludes for Piano, Book One by Claude Debussy. Performance by Daniel Barenboim. An explanation is given on these Préludes by Daniel Barenboim as well as readings of Debussy's own writings.

According to Claude Debussy, "Music begins where the words end." It builds a bridge between reality and unreality. In his Preludes, he left the music open to interpretation by the performer and the listener, wishing that "they be played only privately" and "among four eyes," (entre quatre-z-yeux). Debussy sets dance movements to music, evoking three bacchantes sculpted on a column in the Louvre Museum. "La fille aux cheveux de lin" derives from a poem by Leconte de Lisle, while "La Cathedrale engloutie" tells the story of the sunken cathedral of Ys, which rises again from the waters, becomes visible and sinks once more - a tone painting of cathedral-like chords. Claude Debussy endeavoured to revolutionize tone colour. He wanted to journey down new roads remote from harmonic "rules." "Music is mysterious mathematics whose elements partake in the eternal. It lives in the movement of water, in the play of the waves in the changing winds."