Director: David Wallace

A four-part BBC series, written and presented by Michael Wood

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Great’s amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.

Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexander’s journey as closely as possible, crossing deserts and rivers, from Turkey to war-torn Afghanistan. As the journey progresses, he recreates the drama of Alexanders epic marches and bloody battles. All along the way he finds proof of the survival of the legends surrounding Alexander, a leader whose life has excited the world’s imagination for the 2,000 years.

Episode III: Across the Hindu Kush (60 min) ( Click here to watch )

Following Alexander’s route Michael Wood treks over the Khawak pass in Afghanistan, crosses the Oxus river and follows the golden road to Samarkand. He continues to Alexandria the Farthermost – Khodzent in Takjikistan – retraces Alexander’s famous victory at the Sogdian rock, and visits the ruins of the ancient city of Balkh with the help of an Afghan war lord.

 (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.

   https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Ballet+422
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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