A three-part BBC Four travelogue with Tim Mackintosh-Smith, British Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer.  In an effort to break the west's monolithic view of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta, regarded by many to be one of the greatest travellers and explorers the world has ever seen, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey.  

Episode 3: Trade Winds
(60 min; 2008; English)
Tim Mackintosh-Smith explores the place of Islam in Hindu-dominated India and communist China, and tells the story of the Islamic trade empire of the 14th century. In China, he meets a clan who trace their ancestry back to Arabs, and witnesses an illegal Arabic lesson.

TENDER DOCUMENT

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The Last Honey Hunter (Nepal) | Click here to watch
(36 min; 2017; Nepalese with English subtitles)
Director: Ben Knight

Multiple award winner including the Cartel Award for Best Documentary, Camden International Film Festival 2017; Grand Prize, Krakow Mountain Film Festival 2018; Best Film, Mountain Culture, Banff Mountain Film Festival 2017 among others

In the steep mountain jungles of Nepal’s Hongu river valley, members of the isolated Kulung culture have risked their lives for generations scaling dangerous cliffs to collect a wild and toxic honey. Deep and dark, the film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and woodsmoke to share the story of the leader of the harvest and his final journey.

A work of visual brilliance, the documentary follows the unique story of the honey hunter Maule Dhan Rai and brings into play the village traditions and customs that Rai and the Kulung’s practice.

https://vimeo.com/201695311

Richard Strauss Remembered (UK) | Click here to watch
(117 min; 1984; English)
Director: Peter Adam
Narrator: John Gielgud
A BBC Two Production

A unique record of a great man's life which spanned from the reign of King Ludwig of Bavaria through the turbulent years of Hitler's Germany to the post-war period. The composer and conductor seen through the eyes of his family and the people who worked with him-Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, Eugen Jochum; the great opera stars - Hildegarde Ranczak and Viorica Ursuleac who sang the first Arabella. Using home movies and rare archival footage, the film reveals the man and the role he played under Hitler. 

It also includes concert performances by the composer and vintage opera extracts with some of Strauss's favourite interpreters – Lisa Della Casa, Irmgard Seefried, Anneliese Rothenberger, Vilma Lipp in Rosenkavalier, Ariadne, Arabella, Capriccio and Elektra.

https://vimeo.com/393902416

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (USA) | Click here to watch
(89 min; 2012; English)
Directors: Tom Bean & Luke Poling

Co-founder of The Paris Review, George Plimpton (1927–2003), was a writer, editor, amateur sportsman, actor, and friend to many. Plimpton’s remarkable life is showcased in a documentary that is both a chronicle of one of the last century’s most intriguing characters, as well as a cinematic adaption of his nuanced and funny literary style. A fascinating journalist who lived fully, strangely and incredibly. With George Plimpton’s own narration, the film includes extensive archival footage of his sport stunts and participatory journalism gigs, and interviews with friends, family and contemporaries. 

https://vimeo.com/422276464

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Haiku: An Anthology of 1000 Haiku poems in Hindi

By M. Jamshed

Launch of the book followed by a discussion

Chief Guest: Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Hon’ble Minister of Minority Affairs, Government of India

Discussants: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Mr Sreenivasa Rao, Secretary, Sahitya Akademi; Ms Kamna Prasad, author and founder, Jashn-e-Bahar; Ms Vandita Mishra, National Opinion Editor, The Indian Express; Ms Marya Shakil, Senior Political Editor, CNN-News 18; Mr. Koji Sato, Director General, The Japan Foundation; and Shri M. Jamshed, author of the book

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Speaker: Dr. Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies and Head of Nuclear Security Project and author of Nuclear Strategy: India’s March towards Credible Deterrence (2009)

Chair: Amb. Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Adviser of India and former Foreign Secretary of India

(Collaboration: Society for Policy Studies)

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An Assamese Bhoj
Prepared by Chef Utpala Mukherjee

There is much more to the verdant state of Assam than its lush-green tea estates and abundant wildlife. It is also home to a cuisine famed for the delicacy of its flavours and aromas. Reputed Assamese Chef MRS. UTPALA MUKHERJEE introduces us to a cuisine that is a confluence of the cooking styles of the hills that favour fermentation and smoking techniques as well as cooking in banana leaves and bamboo hollows which add as much flavour as would spices. Assamese dishes are less spicy than any other Indian dishes, but carry richness of taste and health, using a wide variety of rice, fish, greens, and local and natural herbs. The use of raw mustard oil and fermented bamboo shoots gives the cuisine a distinctive taste. The Assamese contribution to the world of taste is the alkalinity of ‘khar’, just as Japanese cuisine introduced the world to ‘umami’.These items shall be served in addition to the regular menu in the Dining Hall and also can be booked on prior demand as “Take Away” items from 6th April to 8th May 2022.
 

Take away services with prior booking will be available from 1030 hrs to 2100 hrs.

Kindly Place an order at: 011-24609472, 24609374, 24609375 or WhatsApp at 9910333937 

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