Galilee Israel amid Covid-19 and India

 

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Sheval, President, Galilee International Israel

 

Introduction: Shri Tirthankar Goyal, CEO Galilee Israel

Moderator: Shri K N Shrivastava, Director IIC

 

Dr. Joseph Sheval will focus on the Israeli experience of coping with crisis in general, with the present crisis in particular and the lessons to India

(Collaboration: Galilee International Israel)

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Abstract

The history of ancient civilizational links between India and China is often cited as the enduring basis for India-China friendship. However, contemporary India-China relations have been much more influenced by Chinese encounters with British imperialism, with Indians playing the role of subordinate instruments of British depredations in China. India was held up by Chinese intellectuals as a teacher by negative example, its easy subjugation by the British, its fragmented and disunited polity. China would need to avoid these dangers if it were to regain its full independence and modernisation. These perceptions persist and influence Chinese policy towards India in contemporary times and need careful analysis.

 

The Royal Palace and the Palatine Chapel, Palermo (34 min )

A virtual tour of the royal chapel in Palermo conducted by Angelina Jimbo

 

The Palantine Chapel is the royal chapel of the Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily. The building is a mix of Byzantine, Norman and
Fatimid architectural styles, representing the tricultural heritage of Sicily especially during the 12th century 

 

An initiative of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi and Bell’Italia 88
 

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Amala Shankar: My Dance Teacher (34 min)

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Urmimala Sarkar, specialist in Dance Studies, who joined the Uday Shankar India Culture Centre and trained under the great danseuse Smt Amala Shankar and was later associated with the Centre as dancer and administrator. Dr. Sarkar is presently Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Introduction: Prof. Partho Dutta

 

A tribute to Smt Amala Shankar (1919-2020), noted dancer , choreographer, and wife of Uday Shankar. The lecture will explore unchartered territory regarding Amala Shankar’s pedagogical contribution to dance teaching and innovation in Indian modern dance

 

Video recording of a talk for IIC online programmes

ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE

 

The Qutab Minar Complex – Evolution of Indian Architecture (38 min)

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Swapna Liddle, historian, Convener, Delhi Chapter of INTACH. She is the author of Delhi: 14 Historic Walks and Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi.

 

Video recording of a talk for IIC online programmes

 

FOCUS JAPAN

Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi 

 

Searching for the Standing Boy of Nagasaki

(50 min; 2020; English)

A young boy carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother, in the devastated city of Nagasaki after the atomic bomb explosion. An American military photographer, Joe O’Donnell, took a picture of him standing stoically near the cremation pit. This film follows the fate of thousands of “atomic-bomb orphans” and their struggles to survive the aftermath of World War II

 

Link to access the film:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/5001311/

Book Discussion Group

 

Making India Great Again: Learning from our History

India International Centre is organizing a Webinar on Monday 05 October, 2020  from 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm on

Chairman:
Amb : K. P. Fabian, Former Diplomat & Foreign Policy Analyst (Chair)
 
Panelists: 
 
Shri Ravi Budhiraja, IAS (Retd.), Former Chairman at Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority
Dr. Saugata Bhattacharya, Chief Economist, Axis Bank
Shri Robin Banerjee, Managing Director, Caprihans India Ltd.
Mrs. Meeta Rajivlochan, IAS, Member Secretary, National Commission for
Women and formerly Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Mumbai & Author of the book
Prof. M. Rajivlochan, Professor of History at Panjab University, Chandigarh & Author of the book
 

By Devaki Jain (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books, 2020)

 

The author will be in conversation with Dr. Romila Thapar, Emerita Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Ms Antara Dev Sen, literary critic, writer and founder editor, The Little Magazine

 

Moderator: Ms Kalpana Sharma, journalist, columnist and author

 

In this no-holds-barred memoir, renowned feminist economist and academician, Devaki Jain recounts her own story and also that of an entire generation and a nation coming into its own

 

(Collaboration: Speaking Tiger Books) 

 
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