The World from 1954

Talk by Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1997-2000); and US Ambassador to the Russian Federation (1993-1996); India (1992-1993); Ambassador and U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1989-1992); and U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1985-1988)
 
Introduction: Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC
 
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
 
In his talk, Ambassador Pickering looks at how the world and its future appeared in 1952, when he and Ambady Damodaran were classmates at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston USA, how it has eventually shaped over the past 67 years, and the contributions of India and the United States to that shaping.
 

Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020-2021

Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet, Critic & Academic, Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, University of Delhi, & Editor of the book (Moderator) and Vinita Agrawal, Editor, Curator, Independent Researcher & Editor of the book (Moderator)

Speakers: Jerry Pinto, Indian English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator and journalist; and Sanjukta Dasgupta, critic, translator and poet, former Professor and Former Head, Department of English and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta

Overview: Kiriti Sengupta, poet, editor, translator, and publisher from Calcutta and recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize (2018)

Of Travel and the River

Speakers: Ms Pallavi Aiyar, award winning foreign correspondent, author of non-fiction books on China and Europe and, Associate Editor, The Globalist; Shri Samrat X Choudhury, journalist and author of the recently published book The Braided River: A Journey Along the Brahmaputra (HarperCollins, 2021); and Mr. Victor Mallet, Chief, The Financial Times, Paris and author of River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (Oxford University Press, 2017)
 
Chair: Prof. Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Professor and Executive Dean, Director, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
 
A series of talks and dialogues that hope to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions and opening streams of thought for a future with exciting possibilities
 
(Collaboration: New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University)

 

The Execution of Bhagat Singh: Legal Heresies of the Raj 
by Satvinder Singh Juss (Amberley Publishing, UK: 2020)

Discussants: Shri Rajesh Ramachandran, Editor, Tribune; Prof. Ranbir Singh, Former Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi; Prof. S. Irfan Habib, historian and former Maulana Abul Kalam Chair, NUEPA; and Prof. Satvinder Singh Juss, Professor of Law, King's College London, Barrister-at-Law, Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (IAC), London and Birmingham, UK.  and author of the book     

Moderator: Dr. Indivar Kamtekar, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

 

A series of films to celebrate the centenary year of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010), arguably one of the greatest Spanish film directors of his time and an arch-satirist of Spanish society. Remarkably, much of his best and most cutting work were made under the scrutiny of a censorious dictatorship. The online film series revisits four ground-breaking films that played a significant role in his career and evolution as a filmmaker. Organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi; Filmoteca de la AECID, ICAA; Filmoteca Española, AC/E; and Academia del Cine, Spain.

The films will be screened every Friday in June 2021 for a duration of 48 hours. Vimeo links of the films will be posted on the IIC website (www.iicdelhi.in) and sent by email.

National Heritage (Patrimonio nacional/Spain) | (110 min; 1981; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Luis Gracía Berlanga

Recipient of the Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Spanish Movie Performer, Fotogramas de Plata 1982; and Sant Jordi Award for Best Film, Sant Jordi Awards 1981

A satire on the Spanish aristocracy, the film is set in the period following Gen. Franco’s death. An elderly marquis and his insane son decide to return to Madrid after years away, in order to claim a rundown palace. The Palace is inhabited by a bedridden marquesa and her gay manservant…

https://cultura.cervantes.es/nuevadelhi/en/national-heritage/143736

Written for Kosmos Ensemble by Errollyn Wallen

Kosmos Ensemble is a chamber-folk trio led by violinist Harriet Mackenzie which aims to create bridges between classical music and folk. They are Harriet Mackenzie (violin); Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton (viola); and Miloš Milivojevic (accordion)

Video recording of a concert presented by Kosmos Ensemble at the Festival of Chichester, Chichester Cathedral, July 2018