PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
    

Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Rita Dev from Delhi, disciple of Guru Dr. Girija Devi

Followed by
Kathak Recital
By Sangita Chatterjee from Delhi, disciple of Smt Vaswati Misra
 
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-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the Conference Room I and C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

A visual enactment of a new play presented by Ruchika Theatre Group
Directed by Feisal Alkazi
Script devised by Ritvik Mohan Bhagat and Feisal Alkazi

With Radhika Alkazi, Sanjiv Desai, Smita Mazumdar, Rajaram, Dhruv Chugh, Gunjan Sharma and others

A young boy’s body is found in Jahanpanah forest and the investigations begins, wrapping itself around one particular family. Justice in the age of social media, parenting and the lack of it, nature and nurture…Dramatic tension builds as there are a range of suspects…
 

Kindly please make a note
 

-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the Conference Room I and C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

An exhibition of museum quality Dhakai Jamdani sarees from the collection of Siddhartha Tagore. On display are Jamdanis from the late 19th century woven in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and some from an earlier period including some rare pieces produced by the East India Company 

Curated by Puneet Kaushik and Rema Kumar

(Collaboration: Art Konsult)

India – A Federal Union of States: Fault Lines, Challenge and Opportunities 
By Madhav Godbole (Konarak Publishers: 2021)

Chief Guest: Shri M. Hamid Ansari, former Vice President of India
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Discussants: Justice Shri A.P. Shah, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court; 
Prof. Mustafa Faizan, Vice-Chancellor, The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research; Shri Gurcharan Das, author and public intellectual; Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; and Shri K.P.R. Nair, publisher

A conversation with Prof. K.P. Shankaran, former Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi who writes regularly on Gandhi in The Indian Express, The Wire and The Beacon

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi 

Gandhi, as Akeel Bilgrami and Richard Sorabjee have argued, was a philosopher of great eminence. He, like the Buddha and Socrates, was an inventor of an ethics-led philosophical way of life. However what differentiates Gandhi’s ethics-led philosophical way of life from that of the Buddha’s and Socrates’, is its very visible political content. Gandhi wanted development of freedoms for humanity as a whole. He conceived a Constructive Program for this purpose. Only through political action, according to Gandhian ethics, can we implement the constructive program. Therefore Gandhi's philosophical way of life is an explicit desire for a socialist society. It is only logical that an ethics based on the reduction of selfishness can only approve a socialist way of life. Anything that enhances selfishness, like a capitalist economy, was therefore anathema to Gandhi's ethics-led philosophical way of life.

Indus Basin Uninterrupted: A History of Territory and Politics from Alexander to Nehru 
By Uttam Kumar Sinha (Vintage Book: 2021)

Discussants: Prof. K. Warikoo, former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, author, commentator and Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library; Shri Ajit Jha, journalist and Editor (Research), Outlook Magazine; and Dr. Uttam Kumar Sinha, Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Managing Editor of Strategic Analysis and author of the book

Moderator: Shri Shakti Sinha, Director, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute for Policy Research and International Studies and former Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

(103 min; 1958; b/w; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Andrzej Wajda

Recipient of the FIPRESCI Prize, Venice Film Festival 1959

A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda (the final film in his celebrated war trilogy) entwines the story of one man’s moral crisis with the fate of a nation. In a small Polish town on the final day of World War II, Maciek, a fighter in the underground anti-Communist resistance movement, has orders to assassinate an incoming commissar. But when he meets and falls for a young barmaid, he begins to question his commitment to a cause that requires him to risk his life. Ashes and Diamonds’ lustrous monochrome cinematography—wreathed in shadows, smoke, and fog—and spectacularly choreographed set pieces lend a breath taking visual dynamism to this urgent, incendiary vision of a country at a crossroads in its struggle for self-determination.

A four – part series. Historian Michael Wood travels the globe seeking evidence of four of the world's most famous myths. He begins his quest in Jerusalem, travelling to Egypt and Africa as he hunts for evidence of the fabled Queen of Sheba. His search for the lost kingdom of Shangri-La takes him through India, Nepal and Tibet. He roams the Celtic world from Cornwall to Wales, Ireland and Scotland in search of the legendary King Arthur. And finally, he heads to Greece, Turkey and Georgia as he tracks the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece.

Episode 1: The Queen of Sheba ( Click here to watch )
(60 min; 2005; English)
Michael Wood begins his quest with an exotic and mysterious woman of power — the Queen of Sheba. Immortalized in the Hebrew Bible, the Muslim Koran and in many Christian traditions, the tale of the Queen's journey to Jerusalem to meet (and sleep with) King Solomon has been told and retold for nearly 3,000 years. 

(56 min; 2015; English)
Director: Domingo Rodes

Film on Ruperto Chapi y Lorente (27 March 1851 – 25 March 1909), one of the most important and acclaimed Spanish composers of the nineteenth century. Chapi is best known for the music he composed for zarzuelas (Spanish musical theatre). He wrote zarzuelas in all shapes and sizes, including the three-act zarzuela grande and the one-act género chico (short/light) forms. His most celebrated work is La revoltosa.  

The film features the Orquestra Sinfonica de Alicante conducted by Joan Iborra.

Notes on Blindness | ( Click here to watch ) | (90 min; 2016; English)

Directors: Peter Middleton, James Spinney

Acclaimed documentary by Peter Middleton and James Spinney dramatising the life-changing experiences of theology professor John Hull, whose audiotape diaries of his journey into blindness formed the basis of his 1990 book Touching the Rock. Notes on Blindness is built upon the voices of John and his family (from audio diaries, taped letters, domestic recordings and interviews). The result brilliantly blurs the boundary between drama and documentary. Middleton and Spinney have created an immersive film worthy of Hull’s end-quote declaration that “to gain our full humanity, blind people and sighted people need to see each other”.