Persepolis (France/USA) | ( Click here to watch ) | (96 min; 2007; English)
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Multiple award winner including Jury Prize and Palm Dog, Cannes Film Festival 2007; César for Best Adapted Screenplay & Best First Film, César Awards, France 2008; Sutherland Trophy, British Film Institute Awards 2007; Audience Award & MovieZone Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008

Animated biographical drama film based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel of the same name. Graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi has lead a fascinating life, which she tells in an original fashion in Persepolis. The film shows the young Marjane growing up in a communist family in Tehran, becoming politicised and rebelling at college in Austria. The predominantly black-and-white animation is used to amusing effect as Satrapi gently pokes fun at her youthful exuberance and innocence, making serious political points easy to swallow.

A three-part series produced by BBC 4 

In a series about the extraordinary stories behind maps, Professor Jerry Brotton, British historian, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion.

Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession – Episode 2: Spirit of the Age ( Click here to watch ) | (60 min; 2010; English)
Director: Helen Nixon

Professor Jerry Brotton examines the way maps have reflected contemporary politics and belief - and in some cases inspired them. He studies medieval religious cartography on maps showing pilgrims the routes to Jerusalem or heaven, Victorian illustrations of the world - with every nation awarded a score according to how `civilised' they were deemed to be - and modern mapping of social problems including infant mortality and HIV.
 

(36:59 min; 2017; English subtitles)
Director/Editor/Camera: Kirk David Mason

For millions of people living in East Africa, the climate has a direct bearing on their existence. Farmers and Maasai pastoralists alike join with Tanzanian scientists and government officials in describing the transformations they are making to adapt to a new reality, a reality that doesn’t end in East Africa. The stories of older people who have witnessed the effects of life-altering temperature increases, as well as younger people rethinking their sense of future, come to life in “Living on the Edge of Climate Change.”

The Seville Statement on Violence was drafted in 1986, by a group of natural and social scientists from several countries. Later adopted by UNESCO, the Seville Statement marshalled scientific evidence to show that violent behaviour is not generally programmed into human nature. 

Prof. Ashis Nandy from India and Prof. David Adams from USA, were two of the leading academics who drafted the Seville Statement. In this episode of Ahimsa Conversations recorded on 13th August 2021, both scholars look back on the significance of the Seville Statement and reflect on possibilities of nonviolence in our times

Moderator: Rajni Bakshi, freelance journalist and author

Hindustani Vocal Recital |  ( Click here to watch ) 
By Ayush Dwivedi from Kanpur, disciple of Pt. Vinod Kumar Dwivedi

Kathak Recital  | ( Click here to watch )  
By Pratibha Sharma from Delhi, disciple of Smt Geetanjali Lal