Screening Details

Presented by India International Centre and G20 Secretariat, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India 

INAUGURATION
By Shri Victor Banerjee, well-known actor; and Shri Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, Govt. of India

Followed by
PATHER PANCHALI (Song of the Little Road/India)
(112 min; 1955; b/w; Bluray; Bengali with English subtitles)
A film by Satyajit Ray

With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Subir Banerjee

Multiple award winner including Best Human Document & OCIC Award – Special Mention, Cannes Film Festival 1956; National Film Awards for Best Feature Film & Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards, 1956; Golden Gate Awards for Best Director & Best Picture, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1957; among others

With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie,” Indir—vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, Pather Panchali, which won an award for Best Human Document at Cannes, is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.

Ethnomedicine and Tribal Healing Practices in India: Challenges and Possibilities of Recognition and Integration

Edited by Sunita Reddy, Nemthianngai Guite and Bamdev Subedi (Springer: 2023)

Speakers: Dr. Anandaraman Sharma PV, Professor and Head, Department of Panchakarma, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi ; Dr. Ritu Priya, Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU

Chair: Dr. Shailja Chandra, Former Secretary, GoI & Former Chief Secretary Delhi & Public Policy Analyst
 

To Celebrate the Birth Centenary of Pt. Kumar Gandharva

A day-long seminar organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation

11:00 TO 13:30
Musical Vision
With Satyasheel Deshpande; Anubhuti Sharma; Madan Soni; Arun Khopkar; Partho Datta; Neela Bhagwat; and Jyotirmoy Sharma

14:30 TO 16:00
Musical Practice
With Vidyadhar Vyas; Madhup Mudgal;  Asteek Vajpayi; Priyavrat Soni; and Manjari Sinha

16:30 TO 18:00
Raag and Folk Music

With Dhruv Shukla; Udayan Vajpeyi; Rajiv Vora;  Shabnam Virmani and Kalapini Komkali

AT 18:30
Absence and Presence
With Kumar Shahani; Ghulam Mohd. Sheikh;  Bhuvanesh Komkali

On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory

By Thomas Hertog (Bantam: 2023)

Discussants: Dr. Sanil Unnikrishnan, Dean, International Relations & Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, St. Stephen’s College; Dr. Alphy Geever, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, St. Stephen’s College

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University and Indian Society of International Law

Welcome Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Introduction of the Conference: Dr. Anindita Balslev, Founder, Forum for Cross Cultural Conversation

Opening Remarks: Dr. Karan Singh

Speakers: Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Interim Director, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University; Ms Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Member, Bharatiya Janata Party and former Chairperson, the National Commission for Women; Amb. Syed Akbaruddin, Dean, Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad and former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations; and Dr. Ashis Nandy, public intellectual, political psychologist and social theorist

(Collaboration: Forum for Cross Cultural Conversation)
 

NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST

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

Civil War in Myanmar: Impact on North East and Act East

Panelists: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Ambassador to Myanmar; Maj. Gen. (retd.) Vinay Bhatnagar, former BGS 3 Corps; and Shri Angshuman Choudhury, Associate Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

The civil war in Myanmar has been raging for 30 month. Fighting in the border areas has resulted in refugees, drug-smuggling and insurgent groups travelling across into Northeast India. This created problems of law and order. The panel will discuss these and other issues

Speakers: Ms Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu; Shri Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation; and Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Ambassador and Distinguished Fellow, Gateway House, Mumbai

Moderator: Prof. C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute

At the very moment when the BRICS forum appears to gain much global traction, its internal contradiction and external challenges become sharper. The panel will review the outcomes from the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa and will assess its prospects 
 

The Pollen Waits on Tiptoe: Selected Poems

By Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre; English translation by Madhav Ajjampur (Manipal Universal Press; 2022)

Discussants: Dr. H.S. Shivaprakash; Ms Smitha Sehgal; and Shri Madhav Ajjampur, translator of the book of poems

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Trustee, IIC
 

Photographs by Bindi Sheth

Inauguration by Shri Dadi D. Pudumjee, Founder, The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust on Friday, 25 August 2023 at 18:30

(Collaboration: Parzor; Museo Camera; and India Photo Archive)

Full day break-up of Khabar Lahariya programme

Organised in collaboration with Chambal Media with the support of Google News Initiative

The day-long programme includes an exhibition of photographs; panel discussions on “Voices from the Margins”; “Behind the Scenes: Reclaiming Public Spaces, Offline & Online”; “Next Generation Storytellers”; and “The Future of Indian Media”. The programme also includes an expert talk on “”Building a Company with Diversity and Inclusion”; screening of a film “Meelon Door” – a film on migration and its impact on women; and closes with Bundeli Folk Songs presented by Neha Rathore and troupe