PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
  

HER VOICE: Diplomacy Today: A Woman’s Agenda

Speaker: Amb. Nirupama Rao, formerly Foreign Secretary of India and High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Ambassador to China and USA

Introduction: Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC

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

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
    

Migrants Chronicles and Pandemic Musings

A poetic chronicle of the pandemic by Satya Mohanty (New Delhi, Dhauli Books: 2021)

Speakers: Shri Jatin Das, painter and poet; Dr. Rita Malhotra, former Principal, Kamala Nehru College and poet; Prof. Anisur Rahman, former Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia and poet; Ms Mandira Ghosh, poet, author and Treasurer, The Poetry Society (India); and Dr. Satya Mohanty, former Secretary, Govt. of India and author of the book

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

PHYSICAL EXHIBITION  
  
Impressions of monuments faithfully rendered in watercolours by Himanish Das
From the collection of Agha Khan Trust for Culture

Inauguration by Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC on Tuesday, 8 March 2022 at 18:30
 

A Search for Sustainability

A talk by Rajat Kapoor, Architect and an advocate of natural farming. The presentation will explain the links between farming and sustainable architecture - both as an outcome of traditional practice and community knowledge, as well as a method of generating socially and ecologically appropriate architecture and infrastructure today. 

Followed by a dialogue with Snehanshu Mukherjee, Architect, Educator and Writer; Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi, and Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. 

The sixth in the bi-monthly series structured around dialogues that endeavour to present the role of architecture in contributing positively to society and to culture. Conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, the series, through interactions with practitioners and scholars, intends to engage with a wide variety of people - professionals and lay-persons alike.  
 

Ikebana lecture – demonstration by Ms Kouei Sawada, Master Instructor, Sogetsu School, Tokyo, Japan

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

(Collaboration: Sogetsu School, New Delhi)

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89105701977?pwd=Z3Bla2RnblFmS0lqU2tnRzJFWVJRZ…

Meeting ID: 891 0570 1977 
Passcode: Sogetsu

Freedom of Speech

Talk by Prof. Sir Richard Sorabji in honour of Shri Soli J. Sorabjee

Prof. Sir Richard Sorabji is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Aristotelian philosophy; his interests include the physics of the universe, the mind, and social and ethical problems. He is honorary Life Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University 

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

This lecture is first in the series Celebrating Life Trustees organised as part of the Centre’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Bobby Fischer Against the World | Click here to watch
(90 min; 2011; English)
Director: Liz Garbus

Recipient of the Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking, Newport Beach Film Festival 2011

Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th century.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/bobby-fischer-against-the-world/

Neutrino: Hunting the Ghost Particle (UK) | Click here to watch
(59 min; 2021; English)
A BBC film

This is an astonishing tale of perseverance and ingenuity that reveals how scientists have battled against the odds for almost a century to detect and decode the neutrino, the smallest and strangest particle of matter in the universe.

Inside the world-renowned physics laboratory Fermilab, a team of scientists are constructing an audacious experiment to hunt for a mysterious new ‘ghost’ neutrino. If they find it, this could transform our understanding of the nature and fabric of our universe. The problem is, these tiny particles are almost impossible to detect.

https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Neutrino%3A+Hunting+t…
 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
(46 min; 1995; English)
Produced and Directed by Molly Thompson

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. With Haydn and Beethoven he brought to its height the achievement of the Viennese Classical school. Unlike any other composer in musical history, he wrote in all the musical genres of his day and excelled in every one. 

Human, All Too Human was a BBC television documentary that originally aired in 1999. Taking its title from Nietzsche’s book of aphorisms Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, the three-part series covers the lives and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. Although biographies, the overall theme was an exploration of the philosophy of Existentialism, as developed by these radical European thinkers.

Heidegger - Thinking the Unthinkable | Click here to watch
(49 min; English)
Director: Jeff Morgan

Film on the life and work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Heidegger - Thinking the Unthinkable portrays him as an exceptionally gifted, yet vastly under-appreciated by his peers due to his affiliation with the Nazi party.

Heidegger began developing his philosophical ideas around the time that the Nazi party was transforming the country. He furthered the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, in an attempt to directly confront the central issues of human existence and self-awareness. It also reveals how critics dismissed his works as nothing more than Nazi propaganda and how these accusations against his character may have pushed him to a life of solitude in the rural city of Todtnauberg.

Heidegger - Thinking the Unthinkable follows Heidegger’s life until his death in 1976. It discusses how his teachings have stood the test of time, and mentored men such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, as well as many other titans of the modern philosophical world.

https://documentaryheaven.com/human-all-too-human-martin-heidegger/