Jinnah: His Success, Failures and Role in History
By Ishtiaq Ahmed (Penguin Viking, New Delhi: 2020)

Discussants: Dr. Siddiq Wahid, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research and former Vice Chancellor, Islamic University, Kashmir; Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, well-known historian, formerly Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library; and Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, Stockholm University, Sweden and author of the book

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

Speaker: Prof. Y. K. Alagh, noted economist and Professor Emeritus, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad and former Union Minister, Govt. of India
 
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
 
Prof. Alagh looks back at the last half century: the big achievements – food self- reliance by 1978, sustainable agro climatic strategies and fast growth in the Eighties. Tracing the tribulations of the Washington Consensus since the Nineties, he sees the Terms of Trade moving against Agriculture, then stabilizing and more recently moving against agriculture as the backdrop to the agitation against the Farm Laws. He will speak of India’s strengths in software and artisan based exports etc.

The Modern School (1920-2020):A Century of Schooling in India
By Rakesh Batabyal (Westland, New Delhi: 2020)
 
Discussants: Prof. Avijit Pathak, Professor, Centre for Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Ashwajit Singh, former President, Modern School Old Students Association (MSOSA), Managing Director, IPE Global Ltd.; and Prof. Rakesh Batabyal, Associate Professor, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of the book
 
Moderator: Prof. Shanta Sinha,  formerly Professor of Political Science, University of Hyderabad and former Chairperson, National Commission for the Protection of Child Right
 
Chair: Ms. Karthika V.K., Publisher, Westland Publications
 
An iconic centre of learning in the national capital, Modern School is representative of the pioneering efforts in the early twentieth century to create a contemporary education structure in India

A conversation based on the new book by Amit Chaudhuri (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House India, New Delhi:2021)

Prof. Ashis Nandy in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri

Moderator: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, academic and writer, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be.

(Collaboration: Penguin Random House India)
 

Something in the Air - POSTPONED

Curated by Shikha Jhingan and Paromita Vohra

Conversations with Indian Women on Radio and Television
A conversation with Sukhjinder Kaur, Radio Broadcaster, All India Radio and Rita Mukherji, Radio Producer, All India Radio, Yuva Vani

A new series of dialogues organized in collaboration with The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), India focusing on the contribution of women to the media. This episode features two women from All India Radio who will speak about their professional and personal journeys as producers, journalists and pioneers in creating new and livelier programming on radio, expanding its role in music and messaging.

(Collaboration: IAWRT; and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi)

Nine Months to Freedom | (66 min; 1972; English & with subtitles) | Click here to watch

Director: S. Sukhdev
Produced by Films Division

A documentary film on Bangladesh’s liberation struggle. The film chronicles the nine-month long struggle for freedom.

Screening to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Bangladesh

A festival of Spanish films that showcases the work of four exceptional filmmakers organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Alcalá de Henares Film Festival (ALCINE). Envisioned as a dialogue between two works (a short film and a feature film) of each filmmaker, the festival includes the films of directors Juanjo Giménez, Álex Montoya and Belén Macias and producer María del Puy Alvarado. Four filmmakers with different perspectives that showcases the diversity, vitality, robust presence and promising future of Spain’s younger directors. 

The online screenings will be held throughout April 2021 with a screening of two works each by the four filmmakers. All the films will be accessible for a period of 48 hours starting from 23:30 hours onwards on the dates indicated below. Vimeo links of the films will be sent by email and posted on the Centre’s website, www.iicdelhi.in

WEEK DEDICATED TO BELÉN MACÍAS

Marseille (Marsella) | (98 min; 2013; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Belén Macias 

Who has the better claim to a child: the struggling working-class biological mother unable to "properly" raise it — or the wealthy, middle-class adoptive mother who can? Does having money give you a greater claim on motherhood? These are some of the questions posed by Marseille.

A festival of Spanish films that showcases the work of four exceptional filmmakers organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Alcalá de Henares Film Festival (ALCINE). Envisioned as a dialogue between two works (a short film and a feature film) of each filmmaker, the festival includes the films of directors Juanjo Giménez, Álex Montoya and Belén Macias and producer María del Puy Alvarado. Four filmmakers with different perspectives that showcases the diversity, vitality, robust presence and promising future of Spain’s younger directors. 

The online screenings will be held throughout April 2021 with a screening of two works each by the four filmmakers. All the films will be accessible for a period of 48 hours starting from 23:30 hours onwards on the dates indicated below. Vimeo links of the films will be sent by email and posted on the Centre’s website, www.iicdelhi.in

WEEK DEDICATED TO BELÉN MACÍAS
Bad Feeling (Mala espina) | (20 min; 2001; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Belén Macias

Summer vacations have begun for Sara, a sixteen-year-old girl. This year, however, things are going to be very different. The confrontations between Elena and Sara hide a secret that sows the seeds of disquiet and discord in the family. Only Ramón seems to believe in his daughter…

A documentary series presented by Michael Wood, exploring magnificent masterpieces of the Western world in their cultural and historical settings. The series consists of eighteen episodes, each of which focusses on the artistic contributions of one period in the history of the West, from Ancient Greece to the late 1980s. From the classical ideals in Greek and Roman antiquity, through the Renaissance, to the postmodernism of the later 1980s, the series provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Two episodes will be presented every week online
Realms of Light: The Baroque

Episode 10

 Masters of the Baroque (26:03 min) | Click here to watch
The royal courts in Spain and the wealthy burghers in the Netherlands commissioned major paintings by Velazquez and Rembrandt and shaped their content.