Virunga (UK)

11 July 2022, 12:00 am
Virunga (UK)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions, Webcasts
End Date
17 July 2022, 11:59 pm

Virunga (UK) | Click here to watch

(100 min; 2014; English)
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel

Multiple award winner including Festival Prize, Budapest International Documentary Film Festival 2015; Jury Award, Con Science Award, Docville 2014; Documentary Award for Best Cinema Documentary, The Grierson Trust British Documentary Award 2015; Audience Award, International Selection & WWF Award for Best Documentary Film, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2015; among others

In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain gorillas. In this wild, but enchanted environment, a small and embattled team of park rangers - including an ex-child soldier turned ranger, a carer of orphan gorillas and a Belgian conservationist - protect this UNESCO world heritage site from armed militia, poachers and the dark forces struggling to control Congo's rich natural resources. When the newly formed M23 rebel group declares war in May 2012, a new conflict threatens the lives and stability of everyone and everything they've worked so hard to protect.

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Virunga

Lost Kingdoms of Africa (2010-2012/UK)

11 July 2022, 12:00 am
Lost Kingdoms of Africa (2010-2012/UK)
Programme Type
Webcasts
End Date
17 July 2022, 11:59 pm

An eight-part BBC series in which British art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford explores the pre-colonial history of some of Africa's most important kingdoms.

Episode 8: Bunyoro & Buganda (60 min) | Click here to watch
Director: Sarah Howitt

Casely-Hayford travels to Uganda to explore the rise and fall of two great kingdoms. For centuries Bunyoro was the region's dominant power, using history and mythology to make a claim on the land. But its position was challenged by the rapid rise of Buganda, a neighbouring kingdom that had once been a collection of cultivators on the shores of Lake Victoria. Casely-Hayford goes in search of the fascinating reasons for the dramatic reversal of fortunes, and how one kingdom used the arrival of Europeans to its own advantage.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr4rwt
 

The Henry Miller Odyssey (USA)

11 July 2022, 12:00 am
The Henry Miller Odyssey (USA)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions, Webcasts
End Date
17 July 2022, 11:59 pm

(110 min; 1969; English)
Director: Robert Snyder

Documentary on Henry Miller, the well-known American novelist. Miller generously reveals how he saw his era, his peers and himself. He recalls his painful youth and his struggle to survive as a writer; talks about art, dreams, and all the allure of Paris; reads passages from his works and enjoys himself with friends, including Lawrence Durrell, Anais Nin, Alfred Perles, Brassai, and Jakob Gimpel. What emerges in this insightful documentary is Miller's charm, his gentleness and his lust for life. Henry Miller's books include Sexus, Plexus, Nexus, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and The Colossus of Maroussi.

Films of the Sprit

11 July 2022, 12:00 am
Films of the Sprit
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions, Webcasts
End Date
21 July 2022, 11:55 pm

Curator: Rajiv Mehrotra

Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times (90 min; 2021)
A film by Louie Psihoyos & Peggy Callahan

The film gives unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international Nobel Peace Prize laureates and global leaders who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Featuring never-before-seen footage shot over 5 days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these luminaries as they share their hard-won wisdom about a wide range of issues from love, karma, guilt, and forgiveness, to joy, faith, meditation, and reincarnation. Offering neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy under any circumstance, the film is an antidote for our times

(Collaboration: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)  

On popular demand, the above film screened on 5 July 2022 at IIC will be available online until 11.55 pm on 21 July 2022 and can be accessed on the following link:

 https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/missionjoy-furhhdl2.
 

The Modern Indian Writer in Translation: Context, Issues and Problematics Coordinated by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Dutta

23 July 2022, 10:00 am
The Modern Indian Writer in Translation: Context, Issues and Problematics Coordinated by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Dutta
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts

Seminar on Emergence of the Modern Indian Classic

10.00 am to 11 am: Inaugural Session

Welcome: K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Opening Remarks: Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Inaugural Remarks: Shyam Saran, President IIC

Introduction of the Concept: Sukrita Paul Kumar, Literary critics and former Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, University of Delhi

 

On Modern Indian Writer in Translation: Ganesh Devy, Literary critic, activist and Chairperson, People’s Linguistic Survey of India

11 am to 12 noon: Session 1A

Speakers: Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University; and Simi Malhotra, Chair, Dept. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

Chair: G.J.V. Prasad, formerly Professor of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

12 noon to 1.30 pm: Session 1 B

Speaker: Saikat Majumdar, novelist and critic, Professor, Ashoka University

A dialogue between Ipshita Chanda, Professor, Dept. of Comparative Literature, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad; and Sachin Ketkar, Professor, Dept. of English, M.S. University, Vadodara

Chair: Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharya, former Editor, Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi and Literary Consultant

 

2.15 pm: Session 1 C: “Avishkar”: Readings and Music

(Courtesy: Sahitya Akademi)

Chair: Sukrita Paul Kumar

 

2.25 pm: Dramatised Readings by Syeda Hameed, former Member, Planning Commission of India and translator

2.40 pm: Sufi Music presented by Madan Gopal Singh, singer, lyricist and film theorist

3.25 pm – Concluding Remarks: Chandana Dutta, Academic, translator and Editor

 

In the first of a new bi-monthly series on ‘The Modern Indian Writer in Translation’, speakers will discuss the intense creative churning in the era immediately after 1947, when Indian writers were caught between the euphoria of Independence and the turmoil of Partition. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Krishna Sobti, O.V. Vijayan, Indira Goswami, Mahasweta Devi and many others produced iconic works that reflect, question and define the times. Is the time now ripe to examine and reaffirm the status of ‘classic’ for their works? What makes for their continued appeal? These and other questions will be probed in the discussion.

 

Organised by the IIC-International Research Division in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi

 

Registration link

 

Book Discussion Group

08 July 2022, 11:15 am
Book Discussion Group
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Annexe Lecture Room II, IIC Annexe

Gandhi’s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action

By Veena R. Howard (State University of New York: 2014)

Speakers: Prof. Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya, Distinguished Professor, MIT, World Peace University, School of Public Policy, Pune; Prof. Makarand Paranjape, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Ramdas Lamb, Dept. of Religion, University of Hawaii; and Prof. Madhu Jain, Founding Member, Tantra Foundation

Chair: Dr. Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

 

(Collaboration: The Tantra Foundation Library)

 

 

 

Meet the Artist

09 July 2022, 05:00 pm
Meet the Artist
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts

Vivan Sundaram, artist will speak on: ‘Diverge’. 

In the lecture, the artist will share key images from various series of works across 50 years of his career. These images contextualize major turning points that have shaped his artistic enquiry.

Vivan Sundaram is a prolific contemporary artist, engaging with everything from drawings, paintings, photographs to installation art. His works actively engage with social and political history, and question complex ideas such as memory, history, and problems of identity. His multidimensional projects often involve audience participation to push art beyond its traditional boundaries.

He has exhibited in various Biennials across the world as well as several important exhibitions in Tate Modern, London; International Centre for Photography, New York; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and the Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, among others.

 

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/88417434471

Meeting ID: 884 1743 4471

 

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)
 

DURGABAI DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2022

15 July 2022, 06:30 pm
DURGABAI DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2022
Programme Type
Talks
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

Migration, Informality, and the Growing Precarity of Work

Speaker: Prof. Ravi Srivasavta, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi

 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Concert - 3 Sopranos and their Guests

14 July 2022, 06:30 pm
Concert - 3 Sopranos and their Guests
Programme Type
Cultural
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

Presented by The Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

Sopranos: Aastha Mohapatra, Meera Arora, Serene Philip
Contralto: Ankur Dang
Baritone: Johnson Joseph Wilson

Accompanied on the piano by Hanna Pashkevich on the piano

A musical soiree with European vocal music through the ages in several languages

Rohmer in Paris (UK/France)

04 July 2022, 12:00 am
Rohmer in Paris (UK/France)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions, Webcasts
End Date
10 July 2022, 11:59 pm


Rohmer in Paris (UK/France) | Click here to watch
(67 min; 2013; English and with subtitles)
Director: Richard Misek

A love letter to legendary novella vague filmmaker, Eric Rohmer and the world capital of cinema. The film begins with a chance encounter with Rohmer in 1994, while he was filming Rendez-vous in Paris on location in Montmarte. This accidental connection becomes the basis for a passionate exploration of Rohmer’s lifelong relationship with the city and the many cinematic journeys he made through it. Innovatively combining documentary, speculative fiction, and remix, the film provided a narrated tour of Rohmer’s works, of modern Paris, and of the pains and pleasures of cinephilia

https://vimeo.com/234036554