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(122 min; 2000; German/English & with subtitles)

Written and Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris
Narrated by Judi Dench

Multiple award winner including Oscar Award for Best Documentary, Features, Academy Awards, USA 2001; Audience Award for Best Documentary Film, Terezin Fort Film Festival 2001; Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Documentary, Evening Standard British Film Awards 2001; among others 

Film on the extraordinary British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. These children, or Kinder, as they came to be known were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting to be reunited with their parents. The majority of them never saw their parents again. The film uses rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artefacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents
 

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Bharatanatyam Recital

By Rahul Dev Mondal from Kolkata, disciple of the late Guru Tusher Dey and Prof. Khagendra Nath Burman
 
 

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Kuchipudi Recital

By Abhinaya Nagajothy from Delhi, disciple of Smt Seetha Nagajothy and Shri P. Nagajothy
 
 

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Speaker: Prof. T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International Relations, Dept. of Political Science, McGill University, Canada; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada; and former President, International Studies Association

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian
 

Dine ‘Italian Style’ with this weekend’s menu at IIC.  Italy is a country of great variety, and Italian cooking is just another aspect of the diversity of Italian culture. This diversity in Italian food stems largely from peasant heritage and geographical differences. Using the freshest seasonal ingredients and basic cooking techniques to simply enhance natural flavours, IIC Chefs bring you pasta, cannelloni, risotto and a variety of garden-fresh salads for a leisurely sit-down meal or as take-away. IIC will be serving the special menu from 29th April to 1st May 2022. These items shall be served in addition to the regular take away/dine in menu.

Take away services with prior booking will be available from 1100 hrs to 2100 hrs. Last order can be placed at 2030 hrs.

Kindly Place an order at: 011-24609359, 24609449, 24609472 or WhatsApp at 9910333937

Kanwal Wali
Secretary
 

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Coordinator: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Recent Developments in South Asia: How they affect India’s Neighbourhood First Policy

Panelists: Amb. K.V. Rajan, former Indian Ambassador to Nepal; Amb. Vivek Katju, former Indian Ambassador to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar; and Dr. Gulbin Sultana, Associate Fellow, South Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta
 

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Indian Ocean Security

Speaker: H.E. Mr. Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of the People’s Majlis, House of Parliament of Maldives and formerly President of Maldives

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC and formerly Foreign Secretary of India
 

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In Conversation
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam in conversation Latika Gupta

The Importance of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Understanding the History of Science

Inaugural Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Speaker: Prof. Dominik Wujastyk, Saroj and Prem Singhmar Chair of Classical Indian Polity and Society, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada

Chair: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Professor Dominik Wujastyk holds the Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity at the University of Alberta, Canada. After completing a BSc in Physics, he took masters and doctoral degrees in Sanskrit from Oxford. He has worked extensively with Sanskrit manuscripts and on Indian social and intellectual history, including traditions of debate. His expertise ranges from Sanskrit grammar, to the history of Indian medicine and science, and the history of yoga. Among his books are, A Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts, Metarules of Paninian Grammar and The Roots of Ayurveda. He founded the INDOLOGY online discussion forum in 1990, and was co-founder of the journal, History of Science in South Asia. In 2020, Professor Wujastyk was awarded a four-year Canadian SSHRC Insight Grant for the Suśruta Project (http://sushrutaproject.org) that is investigating the early history of medicine in South Asia.

The largest and intellectually most important collections of Indian manuscripts are to be found in India and Nepal. Many of these manuscripts provide unique insights into the history of Indian mathematics, medicine and other sciences. There are four major problems that face a scholar who wishes to study the manuscript heritage: discovery, access, interpretation and dissemination. Yet modern developments in software and Digital Humanities provide important solutions to these problems. This lecture will discuss these issues with reference to a research project on the medical classic called The Compendium of Su?ruta. The discovery of a 1000-year-old manuscript allows us to plot the changes the work has gone between the ninth century and today, but the discovery brings with it many practical difficulties.

First in a new series of lectures organised by IIC-International Research Division

Registration link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZNuh0JKKQcq2j1Kvkh-BVw

March of the Penguins (France)
(80 min; 2005; English and with subtitles)
Director: Luc Jacquet
English narration: Morgan Freeman

Multiple award winner including Oscar Award for Best Documentary, Feature, Academy of Awards, USA 2006; Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2006; Audience Award for Best International Feature, Los Angeles Film Festival 2005; NBR Award for Best Documentary & Top Five Documentaries, National Board of Review, USA 2005; among others

A wonderfully moving nature film that is both informative and entertaining, following a colony of three-foot-tall Empire penguins of Antartica (about a thousand) and their survival and mating during the course of a year (from the end of the Antarctic summer in February, a time when the sea ice is melted, to the following February) in a place that is known for having the most inhospitable climate in the world. 

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=March+of+the+Penguins
 

Ibn Battuta: The Man who Walked Across the World (UK)
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 1: Wanderlust
(60 min; 2008; English)
Beginning in North Africa, Tim Mackintosh-Smith visits Battuta's birthplace of Tangier in Morocco, and stumbles on a performance of medieval trance music. In Egypt, he goes to a remote village where Battuta had an astonishing prophetic dream and visits the world's oldest university in Cairo.

https://vimeo.com/38091671