PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

A book by Harsha V. Dehejia (DK Printworld:2020)

Launch of the book by Dr. Karan Singh

Followed by a talk   

The Third Eye of Indian Art

Speaker: Dr. Harsha V. Dehejia, Indo-Canadian allergologist, author, and radio host, and Professor of Indian Studies, Carleton University

Discussants: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Hindi poet and critic, noted cultural and arts administrator; Shri Pawan K. Varma, former diplomat, writer, and politician; and Prof. Makarand Paranjpye, novelist and poet, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

In the Service of Free India: Memoir of a Civil Servant

By B.D. Pande (New Delhi, Speaking Tiger: 2021)

Discussants: Shri N.K. Singh, politician, economist, and former Member of Parliament; Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist and former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India; and Shri M.K. Narayanan, former National Security Advisor and former Governor of West Bengal 

Moderator: Smt Neerja Chowdhury, senior journalist

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The Story of 1 (UK) | Click here to watch
(60 min; 2005; English)
Director: Nick Murphy 

Terry Jones hosts this documentary on the number one. It looks at early evidence of counting, the use of numbers for simple arithmetic in Sumeria, the development of large numbers and their use for engineering in Egypt, the worship of numbers by Pythagoras and the theoretical mathematics of the Archimedes. It also looks at the use of numbers by the Romans, the development of Arabic numerals in India, the discovery of the number zero, the development of algebra in the Islamic world, the decline of Roman numerals in the west, and the development of the binary system.

https://vimeo.com/56113926
 

Machu Picchu Decoded | Click here to watch
(52 min; 2009; English)
A National Geographic film

Deep in the Andean mountains lays a mysterious ruin named Machu Picchu. For 400 years it sat abandoned on its misty cliff, the quintessential lost city in the jungle. Rediscovered in 1911, it contained no written records or carvings, nothing that could shed light on its history. For a century since, it has defied the endless scores of visitors and scientists who attempted to understand its purpose. Who were the mysterious people who built it and why did they build it here? Today an international team of archaeologists, engineers and scientists are finally piecing together the clues. Together they are discovering astonishing new burials, revealing the intricacies of its ingenious engineering and finally decoding the secrets of Machu Picchu.

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Machu+Picchu+Decoded

Mendelssohn Unknown: Portrait of composer, pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn 
(53 min; 2009; Italian/English/German and with subtitles)
Director: Angelo Bozzolini

The most complete and up-to-date documentary about Felix Mendelssohn ever made till now.

The narrative structure is based on the original letters of Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny, combined with evocative period images made in Super8. Some of the most important moments of the composer's life: his training, his religious and cultural identity, his journey to Italy, his relation with Bach and his rediscovery, the Leipzig years, the oblivion following his death and the recent unearthing of many important unpublished works.

A blend of music and words featuring some of the most distinguished Mendelssohn specialists, including Riccardo Chailly, Steven Isserlis, Lang Lang, Kurt Masur, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roberto Prosseda, and Charles Rosen.

Human, All Too Human was a BBC television documentary that originally aired in 1999. Taking its title from Nietzsche’s book of aphorisms Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, the three-part series covers the lives and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. Although biographies, the overall theme was an exploration of the philosophy of Existentialism, as developed by these radical European thinkers.

Sartre: The Road to Freedom | Click here to watch
(49 min; English)
Director: Louise Wardle

Sartre: The Road to Freedom investigates the life and works of French philosopher of Jean-Paul Sartre, a key figure in the philosophy of existentialism. Sartre’s philosophy centred around an exploration of what it means to be free, the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness, and the belief that it was up to individual human beings to give meaning and purpose to their lives.

Sartre: The Road to Freedom portrays some of the central concepts of Sartre’s philosophy and paints a picture of what the philosopher’s life was like. It is one of the rare documentaries that offers an English-speaking audience a closer look into his life, featuring interviews with de Beauvoir herself.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/sartre-the-road-to-freedom/

Shri Krishen Khanna, artist will speak on Many Facets of a Painter

Krishen Khanna was born in 1925 in Lyallpur, or Faisalabad, in Punjab, now in Pakistan. He studied at the Imperial Service College, England, from 1938-42 as a Rudyard Kipling scholar. Returning to Lahore for a course in English literature at Government College, he simultaneously took evening classes at the Mayo School of Art. He moved with his family to Shimla following Partition and later shifted to Bombay and began a career in banking. His works were first featured in a group exhibition in 1949 and he held his first solo exhibition in 1955.

In 1961 he became a full-time artist. With a Rockfeller Fellowship, he travelled to Japan in 1962 and since then, he has widely exhibited in India and abroad and is recognised as one of India’s leading artists. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. He lives and works in New Delhi.

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

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