Speakers: Dr. Sharad Baviskar, Assistant Professor, Centre for French and Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Dilip Mandal, former Managing Editor, India Today Hindi magazine; Prof. Y.S. Alone, Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr Meena Kandasami, poet, writer and activist; and Prof. Uma Chakravarti, distinguished Feminist Historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi

Moderator: Suhas Borker

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritik ani Rannaniti Adhayana Samiti; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST SERIES
Coordinator: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Panelists: Mr. Radheshyam Adhikari, Advocate and Constitution expert; Mr. Amish Raj Mulmi, Nepali author and columnist; and Amb. Dinesh Bhattarai, former Nepali diplomat and Foreign Affairs Advisor

Panelist & Moderator: Maj Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

Nepal’s constitution crisis seemed to have been resolved in February 2021 after the Supreme Court overturned Prime Minister K.P. Oli’s December 2020 decision to dissolve the Parliament. However, the revival of the House has not helped as neither has the Oli government been challenged with a no-confidence motion, nor have the Maoists withdrawn support to it; nor has Oli resigned on moral grounds. The discussion will try to understand the political conundrum that has lasted more than two months and trace its root causes. 

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Speaker: Cmde C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi

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

Welcome Remarks: Professor Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS 

Keynote Address: Mr. T Rabi Sankar, Executive Director, RBI

Panelists: Professor Thankom Arun, Director, Centre for Accountability and Global Development (CAGD), University of Essex, UK; Professor B.V. Phani, Head of Department & Professor of Finance, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur; Mr. Arif Khan, Chief Digital Officer, NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), Mumbai*

Chair: Prof. K.J. Joseph, Director, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram 

Vote of Thanks: Dr. Priyadarshi Dash, Associate Professor, RIS

(Collaboration: Research and Information System for Developing Countries, RIS )
 

A festival of Spanish films that showcases the work of four exceptional filmmakers organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Alcalá de Henares Film Festival (ALCINE). Envisioned as a dialogue between two works (a short film and a feature film) of each filmmaker, the festival includes the films of directors Juanjo Giménez, Álex Montoya and Belén Macias and producer María del Puy Alvarado. Four filmmakers with different perspectives that showcases the diversity, vitality, robust presence and promising future of Spain’s younger directors. 

The online screenings will be held throughout April 2021 with a screening of two works each by the four filmmakers. All the films will be accessible for a period of 48 hours starting from 23:30 hours onwards on the dates indicated below. Vimeo links of each film is pasted below.

WEEK DEDICATED TO JUANJO GIMÉNEZ 

We need each other (Nos hacemos falta) | (97 min; 2001; Spanish with English subtitles) | Click here to watch
Director: Juanjo Giménez  

Recipient of the Special Mention for Best Actor, Ourense Independent Film Festival 2002

Alex has just left prison. Once out, he finds an old friend, the grave of her mother, a new brother and a clandestine cargo truck to travel through the desert. The journey that run together will make them understand that we all need each other.

A festival of Spanish films that showcases the work of four exceptional filmmakers organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi and Alcalá de Henares Film Festival (ALCINE). Envisioned as a dialogue between two works (a short film and a feature film) of each filmmaker, the festival includes the films of directors Juanjo Giménez, Álex Montoya and Belén Macias and producer María del Puy Alvarado. Four filmmakers with different perspectives that showcases the diversity, vitality, robust presence and promising future of Spain’s younger directors. 

The online screenings will be held throughout April 2021 with a screening of two works each by the four filmmakers. All the films will be accessible for a period of 48 hours starting from 23:30 hours onwards on the dates indicated below. Vimeo links of each film is pasted below.

WEEK DEDICATED TO JUANJO GIMÉNEZ 
 

Rodilla | (16 min; 2009; Spanish with English subtitles) | Click here to watch
Director: Juanjo Giménez 

A middle-aged man has a chance meeting with the legendary football player Rodilla, who is now working as a taxi driver. The meeting brings back childhood memories and browsing through his old sticker album, he realizes the only sticker missing is Rodilla’s. From that moment, it becomes his mission to find the sticker, no matter what