(75 min; 2014; English) |

Director: Jody Lee Lipes

With Justin Peck, Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin

Cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Jody Lee Lipes crafts an intimate, fly-on-the-wall film offering a rare peek into the highly-guarded world of professional ballet. The film shadows Justin Peck, the 25-year old choreographer of the New York City Ballet, as he undertakes the Herculean task of creating the company's 422nd original piece while simultaneously fulfilling his role as a Corps de Ballet member.

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Illustrated lecture by Hormazd Sorabjee, Editor, Autocar India

Introduction: Kritika Mudgal

Hormazd Sorabjee, one of the most senior and much loved auto journalists in India, presents an illustrated lecture on the 10–day road journey that he took through Iran in 2019. The trip starts in Tehran and ending in Shiraz, through Kashan, Isfahan, Chams, Yazd, Pasargadae and Persepolis in between. 

Video recording of a Zoom talk presented by Parzor Foundation and Jiyo Parsi

(84 min; 2018; French with English subtitles)
Directors: Gorav Kalyan, Rohan Kalyan

Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is a biography of the philosopher. The life of Alain Badiou suggests that the reverse is also true. The first feature length film on France's most famous living philosopher.

Two Banks of a River – The Indus in Ladakh
Illustrated lecture by Isaac Tsetan Gergan, artist, photographer and Director, Art for Change Foundation, based in Leh and Delhi
 
Following the lecture, Isaac will be in conversation with Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Professor and Executive Dean, Director, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
 
A series of talks and dialogues that hope to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions and opening streams of thought for a future with exciting possibilities
 
(Collaboration: Living Waters Museum; and New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University)

 

Ikebana lecture and demonstration by Ms Ursula Altenbach, artist and Ikebana teacher from Gersau, Switzerland
 
Introduction: Smt Veena Dass, Director, Sogetsu School of Ikebana
 
(Collaboration: Sogetsu School of Ikebana, New Delhi)
 
Zoom Meeting link: 
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82198460056?pwd=OWxnOGJrQ3F5VDIzUzFuT3J5NDZwU…;
Meeting ID: 821 9846 0056 
Password: Sogetsu

Amader Shantiniketan
By Shivani, translated by Ira Pande (Vintage Books, New Delhi: 2021)
 
Discussants: Prof. Radha Chakravarty, poet, critic and translator; Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, academic, poet and Convenor, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, ICCR, Kolkata; and Smt Ira Pande, freelance writer and translator of the book
 
Chair: Prof. Pushpesh Pant, academic, food critic and historian
 
This charming memoir is a loving homage to a grand institution and its legendary gurus. Written from the perspective of a child and a young girl, it retains the freshness and innocence of an age when experimental education was not merely a trendy movement
 

Panelists: Prof. Achin Vanaik, formerly Professor of International Relations and Global Politics, University of Delhi; Dr. Stanly Johny, International Affairs Editor, The Hindu; and Prof. Imankalyan Lahiri, Dept. of International Relations, Jadavpur University

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian

With West Asia, a virtual tinderbox, if the powers in the region cannot exercise restraint, there is a definite risk of a war with disastrous consequences, not only for the region, but also for the rest of the world. The discussion will examine what President Joe Biden can do to promote reconciliation between Israel and Iran, and between Iran and Saudi Arabia; and to bring about a cease-fire in Yemen. Will Biden re-enter the Iran nuclear deal as he had promised as a candidate? What are the implications of Benjamin Netanyahu’s exit and the arrival of the new president in Iran?