Shake off your sorrows (Sacúdete las penas/Mexico)

(90 min; 2018; Spanish with English subtitles)

Director: Andrés Ibañez Dias Infante

 

González, an inmate serving a long sentence, tells the story of Pepe Frituras, Mexico City’s most famous dancer, who would lose his freedom during a night out partying, ending up in the Palace of Lecumberri -the country’s most dangerous penitentiary. Through anecdotes filled with music, dances, and romance, González narrates how he became the only convict that managed to escape the prison walls using the power of his imagination

 

The film will be accessible using the link and password pasted below from 14th August 2020 at 00:00 until 16th August 2020 at 23:59

 

https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/india/index.php/avisos/64-sacudete-las-penas
Password: DDCM2020
 

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Mexico)

A Festival of Plays

Organised in collaboration with Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, four plays of Pippo Delbono, well-known Italian theatre actor and director will be streamed through Vimeo links. Presented by the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Italy, each of the plays feature leading actors from theatres in Modena, Cesena, Vignola and Castelfranco Emilia.

 

The four plays will be presented over the next four weeks and can be accessed through the Vimeo link pasted below. The plays are in Italian with English subtitles

 

Gospel (Vangelo; 100 min)

Written and Directed by Pippo Delbono

 

Pippo Delbono has been experimenting on stage for many years now, exploring the fertile ground between public and personal, between autobiography and history, shaping works that stand out on the international scene for their originality.

 

Vangelo (Gospel) marks a further step along this path. It is a choral work, which began as a contemporary opera: it first took shape in Zagreb, performed by the orchestra, choir, dancers and actors at the Croatian National Theatre together with the acting company that has been working with Pippo Delbono for many years. It markedly reveals the memories of its Croatian performers who lived through the traumatic events of the war that reshaped the history, places and boundaries of their native land

 

https://vimeo.com/408083747
 

Towards a Holistic Long term Medi-Care system – The case of Covid-19

Panellists: Dr. V.K. Paul, Member, Niti Aayog; and Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

 

Opening Remarks: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

Moderator: Prof. Vinayshil Gautam, Founder Director, IIM-K; 1st Head, Manag. Dept. IIT-D; Leader Consulting Team, IIM-S; and ex KPMG

 

The discussion will present a multi-disciplinary approach to the pandemic, covering emergency health care systems, safety engines of healthcare, emergency case development, evolving social narratives and change in frameworks of reference

 

 

Epidemic, Migrant Labour, and the Politics of Life

Speaker: Prof. Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group

 

And in conversation with Prof. Binod Khadria, Former Professor of Economics and Education and Migration, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

While scenes of migrant workers walking in long processions caught the cameras of the journalists, it still requires to be asked: What lay behind these long marches? How do caste, race, gender, and other fault lines operate in governmental strategies to cope with a virus epidemic? If the fight against an epidemic has been compared with a war, what are the forces of power at play in this war against the pandemic? What indeed explains the sudden visibility of the migrant workers in the time of a public health crisis?

 

 

 

India-China Relations: Galwan valley Postscript

Speakers: Col. Ajai Shukla (Retd.), Consulting Editor (Strategic Affairs, Business Standard; Shri Ananth Krishnan, journalist with The Hindu and author of the forthcoming book India’s China Challenge; and Prof. Hemant Adlakha, Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese and South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Moderator: Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi
 

The discussion takes off from the recent events of June 2020 on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Galwan valley that marks the end of a 45-year period which saw no armed confrontation involving the loss of lives. The discussion will re-evaluate and re-assess India’s China policy and what is the way forward
 

Mehfil with Bhuvanesh Komkali (120 min)

Mehfil with Pandit Kumar Gandharva bani exponent Shri Bhuvanesh Komkali (Khayal)

 

Born into a rich legacy of music, Bhuvanesh Komkali is the grandson of Pandit Kumar Gandharva and Vidushi Vasundhara Komkali and the son of Pandit Mukul Shivputra. He continues to receive guidance from Pandit Madhup Mudgal and Pandita Kalapini Komkali. As a homage to Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Bhuvanesh will sing ragas and bandishes created by him.

 

Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research & NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music

 

Webcast recording of the programme held on 11th December 2015

 

 

Evolution The Most Important Theory in Biology (99 min)

Speaker: Prof. D.J. Futuyma, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Environment, State University of New York and Member of the National Academy of Sciences of USA who has written a number of scholarly books 

 

Chair: Prof. R. Geeta, Botany Department, University of Delhi

 

Despite the simplicity of its central concepts, evolution has a long history of misunderstandings and despite its lack of moral or prescriptive content, evolution has been used to justify social policies that range from the admirable to the appalling. Of all the biological disciplines, evolutionary biology has the most far-reaching philosophical implications and the most diverse applications to society. Prof. Futuyma will outline some of the major principles.

 

Webcast recording of the programme held on 15th April 2013

Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia (67 min)

Keynote Address: Dr. Ganesh Devy, Chairman, People’s Linguistic Survey of India

Introduction: Professor Anvita Abbi, Seminar Coordinator; Honorary Director, Centre for Oral and Tribal Literature, Sahitya Akademi

 

Guest of Honour: Dr. D. P. Pattanayak, eminent linguist                        

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division

 

Organised by IIC-International Research Division

 

Webcast recording of the programme held on 21st November 2016
 

In War and Peace – The Life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, MC

(60 min; 2003; English)

Director: Jessica Gupta

Produced by UNESCO Parzor Project

 

Documentary on the life of India’s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. The film travels back in time through Sam’s rich and unique life through a conversation with his grandson Jehan, making the past come alive. The film re-visits a part of history that many of today’s generation know very little about. It is a tale of heroism, bravery, honesty, wit and much more…

 

 In War and Peace: https://youtu.be/fmV0AlnVw34

 

(Collaboration: Parzor; and Jiyo Parsi)

A Festival of Plays

Organised in collaboration with Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, four plays of Pippo Delbono, well-known Italian theatre actor and director will be streamed through Vimeo links. Presented by the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Italy, each of the plays feature leading actors from theatres in Modena, Cesena, Vignola and Castelfranco Emilia.

 

The four plays will be presented over the next four weeks and can be accessed through the Vimeo link pasted below. The plays are in Italian with English subtitles

 

Orchids (Orchidee; 115 min)

Written and Directed by Pippo Delbono

 

Orchids is a collage of texts and music, musical pieces taken from Pietro Mascagni, Enzo Avitabile, Deep Purple, Miles Davis and Philip Glass, and theatrical verses taken from Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet) and from Chekhov, whose leitmotif is the passion for life. Until the poignant final of The Cherry Orchard.

 

The play is a tribute to a loved one who is no longer there, a wake for a dying mother also realized through the images (sometimes raw) of the main character’s real agony in the hospital.

 

As in all his shows, Delbono brings on stage a cast of "real" people, a cast that also includes social marginalists, such as the deaf and dumb Bobò, who lived in an asylum for forty years, and Gianluca, a boy down who masterfully interprets characters full of life, excite the spectators.

 

https://vimeo.com/408064853