Speaker: Shri V. Srinivas, Special Secretary to Government of India, Director General, National Centre for Good Governance and Member, Council of Administration, International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels

Chair: Shri Sanjay Kothari, former Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Govt. of India

A New India@75 needs a governance model that brings together innovation, technology, enterprise and efficient management with a clean and fair public administration. Since independence, the Union Government has constituted more than 50 commissions and committees to look unto administrative and civil service reforms. The talk will present the contemporary international framework in terms of civil services reforms in the period 1950-2021 presenting the strengths and challenges of India’s civil service reforms vis a vis civil services reforms in the USA and Nigeria.

Ikebana lecture-demonstration by Ms Kosa Nishiyama, Sogetsu First Grade Riji Teacher, Sogetsu Headquarters Master Instructor, Member, Ikebana International and a Fellow of the Nippon Ikebana Art Associations

Introduction: Smt Veena Dass, Director, Sogetsu School, New Delhi

(Collaboration: Sogetsu School, New Delhi)

Zoom Meeting ID: 841 6502 2590
Passcode: Sogetsu

A conversation with Ashis Nandy, Ashok Vajpeyi and Suhas Borker

Hinge: (Re) Discovering Emotional and Mental Wellness
By Vandana Kohli (Rupa Publications India, New Delhi: 2021)

Discussants: Dr. Amit Sen, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Co-founder and Director, Children First; and Ms Vandana Kohli, filmmaker and author of the book

Moderator: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra

Shernaz Cama in conversation with the Gandhy siblings – Rashna, Behroze and Shireen

The late Kekoo Gandhy and his wife Khorshed were pioneers in the Indian art world. Through a framing company in Mumbai which grew to become Gallery Chemould, the couple was instrumental in the growth of Indian modernism, supporting artists including MF Husain, Tyeb Mehta and S.H. Raza. The conversation includes rare photographs from the archive of Chemould and family albums.

Zoom recording of the Jiyo Parsi Friday Forum held on 24th September 2021

(Collaboration: Parzor Foundation and Jiyo Parsi)

A four – part series. Historian Michael Wood travels the globe seeking evidence of four of the world's most famous myths. He begins his quest in Jerusalem, travelling to Egypt and Africa as he hunts for evidence of the fabled Queen of Sheba. His search for the lost kingdom of Shangri-La takes him through India, Nepal and Tibet. He roams the Celtic world from Cornwall to Wales, Ireland and Scotland in search of the legendary King Arthur. And finally, he heads to Greece, Turkey and Georgia as he tracks the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece.

Episode 3: Arthur: The Once and Future King | ( Click here to watch ) 
(60 min; 2005; English)

In this episode of the series, Wood explores the greatest British myth: the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Traveling round the Celtic world from Cornwall to Wales, Brittany, Ireland and Scotland, Wood uncovers the extraordinary story of how a shadowy Welsh freedom fighter — a Dark Age Che Guevara — became a medieval superman, and finally the model of a Christian hero.
 

(87 min; 1984; English)
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Video Director: Christopher Swann

The 1984 recording of West Side Story is one of the all-time greats. Made by Deutsche Grammophon in New York, it brought together three of music’s most illustrious names – American composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, who wrote the music for West Side Story, New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and Spanish tenor José Carreras. This documentary presents a behind the scenes look at the recording session and includes rare insights into a rather tense recording session, before the final musical vision was complete.

(50 min; 2008; English)
Director: Louise Lockwood

With Alan Yentob, Anne Barker, Tony Cicoria

Alan Yentob talks to Dr. Oliver Sacks about his latest book 'Musicophila: Tales of Music and the Brain' which deals with the power of music and how it helps those with extreme neurological conditions, and meets some extraordinary people overcame their conditions with music.

 Voyage to Nowhere (El viaje a ninguna parte/Spain) | ( click here to watch )
(134 min; 1986; Spanish with English subtitles)
Written and Directed by Fernando Fernán-Gómez

Recipient of the Goya Awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best Film, Goya Awards 1986; Award for Best Film, Sant Jordi Awards 1987; and ADIRCAE Awards 1987 for Best Director & Best Performance

Before there was cinema, television, or radio, the world of entertainment circled around stage actors. And, in some cases, there were travelling actors, who lived on the road with their theatre company, offering entertainment in various towns. Voyage to Nowhere is set in Spain during the Franco regime, as one such group of actors enjoys the last gasps of this adventurous way of life, while comedians lose popularity and get older. The film is a tribute to the world of traveling actors since time immemorial.

(Collaboration: Cervantes Institute) 

The film can be accessed on 5th October 2021 from 11.30 pm onwards for 48 hours
 

(56 min; 1988; English)
Director: Lawrence Pitkethly
Produced by New York Center for Visual History

The film follows in considerable and sometimes excruciatingly painful detail Sylvia Plath's life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her suicide, at age 30, in London in 1963. Included are the candid recollections of her mother, Aurelia Plath, and acquaintances such as Clarissa Roche and Dido Merwin. Providing perspectives on Plath's work are A. Alvarez, a critic, and Sandra M. Gilbert, a feminist scholar and herself a poet.