On his 94th birth anniversary in 2013, musicologist and writer S. Kalidas remembers the extraordinary genius of the late Pandit Ravi Shankar, his life and his music

Webcast recording of the programme held on 3rd April 2013

Director: Danny Ben – Moshe
Narrator: Ayesha Dharkar

Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. When Indian cinema began 100 years ago it was taboo for Hindu and Islamic women to perform on screen, so Jewish women took on female lead roles, which they dominated for decades. The film focusses on the lives of five of the great Jewish actors. Infused with music and dancing, the cheekily told documentary unabashedly oozes Bollywood as it uses film motifs to drive the narrative

The film can be accessed for viewing on 11th June 2020 from 18:00 to until 12th midnight after which it will be closed

Here is the link  https://vimeo.com/292075588 

A Conversation with Danny Ben-Moshe

On 12th June 2020 at 11:30, Embassy of Israel will host a Zoom session with Danny Ben-Moshe, Director of Shalom Bollywood. Kindly please register your participation on  https://forms.gle/DDc2wYSrJW2d5HAm9

Screening organised in collaboration with Embassy of Israel in India

The Nehruvian Modern Moment: A view of Delhi's Architecture and Design - 1947-1985 

Speaker: Shri Ram Rahman, photographer
Chair: Shri Romi Khosla

Introduction: Shri Sohail Hashmi

Programme held on 29th August 2015

A tribute by Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy to mark the birth centenary of her Guru, Smt T. Muktha

Collaboration: Aalaap

Programme held on 3rd December 2014

Presentation by Shri Naresh Fernandes, author of the book, The Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The story of Bombay's Jazz Age 

Introduction: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri

From the accounts of most standard jazz histories, it took the genius of American saxophonist, John Coltrane to demonstrate in the 1960s how jazz could enrich itself by seeking inspiration in Hindustani classical music.  But the reality is more complex. From the 1940s, a passionate group of Indian jazz musicians had been attempting to find an Indian way to play jazz, both in art music and in popular music. The presentation will use audio clips and photographs to trace the journey of jazz from New Orleans to New Delhi, exploring how an American transplant became a vibrant Indian hybrid in the fertile soil of the subcontinent

Talk held on 26 November 2014 as part of the exhibition Jazz in India on view from 26 to 30 November 2014

Discussion around the new book RAYA - Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara
by Srinivas Reddy (New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2020)

Professor Srinivas Reddy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar in conversation with William Dalrymple, well-known author, and historian

Zoom recording of the IIC talk and conversation held on 27th May 2020

Post Covid-19: Future of Biodiversity
Speakers: Prof. V.S. Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and Member Planning, Central Electricity Authority; and Dr. Malti Goel, President, Climate Change Research Institute and former Scientist ‘G’ and Emeritus Scientist, Ministry of Science & Technology

Corona virus crisis is reshaping our world. World Environment Day, which falls on 5th June, aims to create awareness about Biodiversity, as a theme of the year. This year the Environment Day campaign marks society’s unified and digital response to our environmental crisis. The Climate Change Research Institute in association with IIC presents a discourse on global pandemic Covid-19 on this World Environment Day, on how biodiversity and covid-19 are linked, the challenges we face and how we can safeguard it post covid-19