An online Flamenco concert with Maria del Mar Fernández (voice); Manuel Lucas (guitar); Ana González and Alejandro Molina (dance)

An online live concert of songs, music and dance presenting a mix of Spanish and Indian compositions reinterpreted by the artists.

The concert will be webcasted live on 4th September 2021 at 6.00 pm on YouTube. 

(Collaboration: Cervantes Institute, New Delhi)

Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer (Canada) | ( Click here to watch )
(48 min; 1997; English)
Writer/Director: Carol Geddes

George Johnston was a hunter, trapper, entrepreneur and photographer. This man, whose Tlingit name was Kaash KlaÕ, documented his family at work and play, and the Yukon community of Teslin, where he lived. The Tlingit are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The film is an engaging portrait of an extraordinary man and the evocative photos he took documenting a fascinating part of Canadian history.

(60 min; 2003; English)
Directors: James Kent, Nicolas Kent, Ian MacMillan

This rich, evocative film captures the greatness as well as the profound gloom of one of Britain’s best-loved poets. Philip Larkin died in 1985 yet his words endure to this day – his poetry is still widely read and broadcast, and a variety of books and memoirs about the man have been published. 

By Pallavi Aiyar (HarperCollins Publishers India, New Delhi: 2021)

A Conversation

With Mr. James Kondo, Chairman, International House of Japan, Tokyo; Shri Sarnath Banerjee, graphic novelist; and Ms Pallavi Aiyar, award winning foreign correspondent, author of non-fiction books on China and Europe and, Associate Editor, The Globalist

Moderator: Ms Urvashi Butalia, author and publisher

Speaker: Monica Das Gupta, demographer, Research Professor, University of Maryland, USA. She has worked in the World Bank’s Development Research Group, Washington DC; Harvard University’s Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge MA; and at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi

Chair: T.V. Somanathan, Finance Secretary, Govt. of India

A key plank of development infrastructure is eliminating communicable diseases, which impose heavy costs on people and hampers the nation’s prospects for economic growth. This is a pure public good needed for a healthy population and labour forces, and no country has become developed without investing in strong public health systems. This talk outlines the institutional requirements for effective public health services, and the key gaps in India’s current public health system. It highlights how India’s public health services can be greatly strengthened within the existing government budgets for health. Simply deploying existing resources more effectively, and improving their management, can vastly improve India’s ability to eliminate routine communicable diseases, and better manage future pandemics such as COVID

https://iicdelhi.in/sites/default/files/2021-08/Epidemic%20Control%20in%20India%20-%20Sept%202021.pdf
 

A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain

By N.S. Vinodh (Simon & Schuster India, New Delhi: 2020)

Discussants: Dr. Uday Balakrishnan, formerly of the Indian Postal Service; Ms Himanjali Sankar, Editorial Director, Simon & Schuster Publishers; and Shri N.S. Vinodh, former Vice President of Fidelity Investments and author of book

Chair: Ms Narayani Mahil, former Head of Communications at BP and ONGC