The Ramayana has been retold across languages and in all genres. Recitations are key to elaborating its meaning: for example, the story of Rama is performed in north India through Navaratri in October, and in Kerala the text is recited through the month of Karkidakam (July–August). A one-day online workshop of readings of texts from southern India and Southeast Asia is being convened in the context of a new collection of essays, The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Ramayana in South India and Southeast Asia (ed. Parul Pandya Dhar, 2021).

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K.N. Malik, An Autobiography
By K.N. Malik (Fingerprint! Publishing/Prakash Books Pvt. Ltd. India: 2021)

Discussants: Shri H.K. Dua, senior journalist and former Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express and former Editor, The Tribune; Ms Usha Rai, senior journalist, currently working as Media and Communication Consultant, Mongabay; and Dr. K.N. Malik, former European Correspondent, The Times of India and author of the book

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker

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Pavarotti (UK) | ( Click here to watch )
(114 min; 2019; English)
Director: Ron Howard

Pavarotti is a riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people. Ron Howard puts audiences front row centre for an exploration of the voice, the man, the legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology.

Water: The Great Mystery (Russia)

(85 min; 2008; English)
Directors: Saida Medvedeva & Vaisily Anisimov 
Narrated by Lex Lang

Water is essential for life on earth, but what do we really know about this amazing substance.

From its less dense state at freezing temperature to its recently discovered ‘memory effect’, Water: The Great Mystery is a well-produced documentary that looks into many fascinating topics and cutting edge research experiments from the viewpoints of scientists, theologians and philosophers that will hopefully help give people a greater understanding of the universe. At points this documentary touches on issues surrounding quantum physics, spirituality and the powers of the mind.

Grizzly Man | ( Click here to watch )
(104 min; 2005; English)
Director: Werner Herzog

Multiple award winner including CFCA Award for Best Documentary, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2006; DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, Directors Guild of America, USA 2006; LAFCA Award for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2005; among others

A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

In telling this story, Werner Herzog relies considerably on Treadwell's own video footage, shot during his time in the wild. The famed German director takes Treadwell's story into unexpected emotional frontiers and startling landscapes of the mind. Treadwell is an intriguing, infuriating, perhaps even tragic figure. But Herzog himself is equally compelling, and this brilliant film is just one reason why.
 

A series of documentaries presented by the historian Bettany Hughes. Travelling across present locations, Bettany explores the cultural and political pasts of ancient peoples, including the Greeks, Minoans and Egyptian.

The Ancient Worlds: Athens – the Truth about Democracy | ( Click here to watch )
(48 min; English)

Democracy, liberty and the freedom of speech are trumpeted as the bedrock of western civilisation, but what was Athens really like?

Bettany Hughes goes deep underground to explore a treasure trove of pre-historic bones and ancient artefacts. In silver mines and tombs she uncovers evidence for what this society was really like.

This was a democratic city built on slave labour, manipulated by aristocrats, where women wore the veil and men pursued a bloody foreign policy, slaughtering thousands in the pursuit of the world's first democratic empire.

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

From 10 am to 2 pm in the Multipurpose Hall

Heart Disease Awareness and screening
A special session will be organized to assess the cardiac status of members and staff of the Centre for prevention of heart attacks in times to come

From 1 pm to 3 pm in Seminar Room I

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Technique
A demonstration of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) technique to members and staff of the Centre. 

Participants will be given the opportunity to get a hands-on session of learning the technique of CPR as well as using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), a medical device designed to analyze heart rhythm and deliver an electric shock to victims of ventricular fibrillation to restore the heart rhythm to normal

From 4 pm to 5 pm in the Multipurpose Hall

Recognizing and Preventing Heart Attacks: Do’s and Don’ts
Speaker: Dr. Nitish Naik, MD, DM, FACC, FCSI, Professor, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Executive Editor, Indian Heart Journal; and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology
 
Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Heart attacks have been a major health concern in our country for many years. Its importance appear even more amplified in the current Covid 19 pandemic, with many young and healthy individuals succumbing to this illness even as they recuperated from seemingly uneventful Covid 19 infections. It is therefore pertinent to recognize important warning signs of this illness and take adequate steps to prevent such premature heart events. The talk will also highlight several personal and lifestyle measure to promote cardiovascular health.

Third lecture in a new monthly series of medical presentations on early signs, prevention and management of diseases/conditions in common medical perspectives by eminent medical consultants. Conceptualised by Dr. Ashwani Kumar.

Panelists: Prof. Kuruvilla Mathews, Professor of International Relations, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Amb. Gurjit Singh, former Ambassador to Ethiopia; and Dr. John Cherian, Consulting Editor, The Frontline

Moderator: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Distinguished Professor, Symbiosis University

The civil war in Ethiopia, a land-locked country in the Horn of Africa, which began in November 2020, with a population of 115 million, is still raging. There is no visible sign of a cease-fire, and the grim total has crossed ten thousand. The earlier civil war that raged from 1974 to1991 totaled up a horrendous toll of 1.6 million deaths.
 
The panelists will discuss the origins and the likely trajectory of this civil war, already marked by culpable violations of accepted international laws and norms.