Conservation for the Community

A talk by Ratish Nanda, Conservation Architect and CEO, Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) in India. The presentation of initiatives will explain how conservation effort can be coupled with socio-economic development measures to improve the quality of life for local communities

The talk will be followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, author and Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

The fourth programme in the bi-monthly series structured around dialogues that endeavor to present the role of architecture in contribution positively to society and to culture. Conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, the series, through interactions with practitioners and scholars, intends to engage with a wide variety of people – professionals and lay-persons alike

Speakers: Shri N. Ram, former Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu; Prof. S. Trilochan Sastry, formerly Dean (Academic), India Institute of Management, Bangalore and chairman, Association for Democratic Reforms; and Shri Prithviraj D. Chavan, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Union Minister

Moderator: Suhas Borker

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

HYBRID MODE

A two-day seminar organised in collaboration with World Buddhist Culture Trust.

Speakers at the seminar include Dr. Sudhamahi Reghunathan; Prof. Mohini Mullick; Prof. Vijay Tankha; Fr. Dr. K.M. George; Dr. Zakaria Abbas; Prof. Akhlaq A. ‘Ahan’; Lama Doboom Tulku etc.

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CONCEPT  NOTE

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Over 178,000 girls have applied for admission to the National Defense Academy (Khadakwasla). The entrance test will be held on 14^th November 2021.This follows a recent Supreme Court judgement that lifted the decade old ban on women getting permanent commission in the armed forces, a ban that was imposed by a patriarchal mindset.

 Five women officers took the matter to the Supreme Court. All of them and Advocate Pooja Dhar who led the legal team in the ten-year battle will be speaking at the webinar. The dialogue will also address the issue of the unfinished task of women’s empowerment.

In Conversation with Commander Prasanna Edayilliam, formerly Air Traffic Controller, the Indian Navy; Commander Sumita Balooni, formerly with the Indian Navy who has trained thousands of Officer Cadets in the Defence Forces and presently Neuro Leadership Coach; Dr. (Commander) Puja Chhabra Sharma, academician with over 30 years of experience including 14 years as a pioneering woman commissioned officer in the Logistics Branch of the Indian Navy; Commander Saroj Dhaka, served in the Indian Navy for 14 years and was the first woman officer to serve in the Navy Special Forces; she founded ESMC in 2010, the first Indian company to venture into maritime security; Commander R. Prasanna, joined the Indian Navy in 1992 and was serving as Commander (Logistics) when she left in 2006; Advocate Pooja Dhar

 Moderators: Advocate Deepa Joseph, President, Disaster Management Collective, New Delhi; and Amb. K.P. Fabian, Distinguished Fellow, Symbiosis University

A weekly screening of four award winning children’s films organized in collaboration with Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Delhi to celebrate National Children’s Day. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in November 2021. Each film will be accessible for a period of 36 hours from Saturday 9 am to Sunday 11.55 pm. The registration link for accessing the weekly screenings is given below.

Romy’s Salon (The Netherlands) | (90 min; 2019; Dutch with English Subtitles)

Director: Mischa Kamp

Multiple award winner including ECFA Award & Golden Poznan Goat for Best Feature Film for Children, Ale Kino! – International Young Audience Film Festival 2019; Cinekid Film Award for Best Dutch Family Film, Cinekid 2019; Children’s Jury Prize for Best Film & Professional Jury Prize for Best Film, Tel Aviv International Children’s Film Festival 2019; among others

Inspired by the novel of the same name from Dutch writer Tamara Bos, Romy’s Salon plunges us into the daily life of Stine and Romy, between the hair salon and the grandmother’s apartment upstairs, where the granddaughter stays after school as her parents, currently in the process of getting divorced, cannot look after her. In Romy’s Salon, we observe the world from a child’s height, and quickly come to understand that grandmother and granddaughter in fact do not know each other well and that neither of them is happy about this cohabitation. But when Stine starts to make mistakes when giving clients their change, putting plates away in the toaster and sleep in her nightgown in the middle of the afternoon —Romy realises that she is going to have to take care of Stine, and not the other way around. Slowly a bond begins to develop between the grandmother and the granddaughter… 

Screening schedule and online registration to access the films:  https://player.eyefilm.nl/en/familyfilm

This series deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? In two epic, surreal and mind-expanding films, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these questions as he explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness.

Everything (58 min; English) | Click here to watch
The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy.

(100 min; 2015; English)

Director: Don Cheadle

A Miles Davis biopic that avoids easy notes. The cradle-to-the-grave biopic has become an increasingly tried Hollywood staple. So it's somewhat refreshing to see Don Cheadle make his directorial debut with what might be called an anti-bio – one that gives the much-deserved big-screen treatment to jazz legend Miles Davis. It's tempting to think this musical innovator would approve of the offbeat, semi- fictional approach taken in this account of a few days in his 'lost' years – the mid-'70s period when he disappeared from public view.

The Ancient World- Alexandria: The Greatest City |(50 min; 2010; English) | Click here to watch

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.

Bettany Hughes goes to Alexandria, Egypt, too look at one of the great cities of history. Founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria was once one of the intellectual and culture hubs of the world. It was home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the immense Library of Alexandria.

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

 at 2.30 pm   Workshop
Conducted by Prof. Balazs Varga, Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

At 6.30 pm    Colonel Redl (Hungary)
(144 min; 1985; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Istaván Szabó

Multiple award winner including Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 1985; BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film, BAFTA Film Awards 1986; Film Award in Gold for Outstanding Feature Film & Best Performance of an Actor in a Leading Role, German Film Awards 1985; among others

The rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Austro-Hungarian Secret Police, only to become ensnared in a web of political deception.

Szabó returns to the formula that made Mephisto a success and improves on it, delivering a stunning historical piece with the amazing Brandauer in the lead role.  This one is set in the years preceding The Great War, where the glory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is in decline.  Brandauer plays Alfred Redl, a young officer from a poor upbringing who quickly rises in the ranks to become head of the secret police.  Once again it is Brandauer's charismatic presence and dramatic range that carries the film. The final scene in the film is one of the most emotional powerful displays of acting ever filmed.

A fascinating story of a true historical figure, with another brilliant performance from Klaus Maria Brandauer, one of the most underrated actors of his generation.

    KINDLY PLEASE MAKE A NOTE

-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 protocols
-    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

At 2.30 pm Workshop
Conducted by Prof. Balazs Varga, Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

At 6.30 pm    Father (Apa/Hungary)
(88 min; 1966; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: István Szabó

Recipient of the Special Prize of the Jury, Locarno International Film Festival 1967; Grand Prix, Moscow International Film Festival 1967; Golden Moon Award for Best Screenplay, Faro Island Film Festival 1966; and CEC Award, Valladolid International Film Festival 1968

After his father is killed in World War II, a young Hungarian boy named Tako concocts a fantasy image of the parent he never really knew.

Essentially a coming of age story told in two parts, the first half of this film is set in 1949 and deals with young Tako (Daniel Erdely) as a schoolboy whose father (Miklos Gabor), a doctor, died at the end of WW2.  Being too young to really remember his father, the boy invents and imagines stories about him, so he becomes a kind of mythological figure in his mind.  The second half of the film takes place in 1956 just before the Hungarian uprising, Tako (Andras Balint) is now a university student and a man who still struggles with the memories of his father and sets out to discover the man he really was.

A well-made story, quite moving but never over-sentimental that excels particularly in the various imagined heroic flashback scenes of the father, with Miklos Gabor doing a fine job in that role.  Hungarian film legend Andras Balint plays the older Tako brilliantly as a young man searching for the truth about his past.  

KINDLY PLEASE MAKE A NOTE

-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 protocols
-    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