Aaj Kavita
Poetry readings by Pawan Karan (Gwalior); Sushila Puri (Lucknow); Joshna Banerjee Aadvani (Agra); and Rajeev Kumar (Delhi)
Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi
The four poets will be reading their original poems
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation )
Links:
facebookLive@razafoundation
YouTube@The Raza Foundation
Night Train to Munich (UK)
Night Train to Munich (UK) | (90 min; 1940; b/w; English) | ( Click here to watch )
Director: Carol Reed
With Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid
Carol Reed’s Night Train to Munich is a twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, combining comedy, romance, and thrills with the greatest of ease. Paced like an out-of-control locomotive, Night Train takes viewers on a journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood), who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent, played by Rex Harrison. This captivating, long-overlooked adventure is a deftly concocted spy game that could give Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense a run for his money.
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1998)
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.
Ballet 422
(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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Discovering Iran – A Unique Drive Through Persia
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
Badiou (USA/France)
(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.
Lotus Lounge to open for the Members on weekends
Observing the increasing number of Members visiting the Centre during the weekends, it has been decided to open the Lotus Lounge for the Members on weekends (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) w.e.f. 03-07-2021. The social distancing norms, as applicable in the Main Lounge and Dining Hall shall also apply to the Lotus Lounge.
The timings of operation will be
12.00 hrs to 19 00 hrs.
(Last order at 1830 hrs.)
Kanwal Wali
Secretary IIC
River Dialogues
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)
Signs of Life
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