Role of Private Players in Eradicating Child Labour in the Supply Chains
Speakers: Shri Daya Ram, Secretary and Executive Director, ASPIRE – an organization working in the area of school education, and formerly Education Head, Agha Khan Foundation in India; and Ms Sandra Claassen, Director, Arisa (Advocating Rights in South Asia), Dutch human rights organization working on the defence and protection of human rights in global supply chains, especially in the sectors of garments and textiles, natural stone, leather, cottonseed and vegetable seeds and Ms Mamuni Das, business journalist for over 15 years, formerly Senior Editor, The Hindu Business Line; and a WNCB awardee for Untold Stories

Moderator: Shri Shankar Venkateswaran, Advisor and interim Director, CDP India, Chairperson, Oxfam India and CSR Trust for SDGs in India
  
Second discussion in a series of three dialogues addressing the root causes of child labour organised in collaboration with Work: No Child’s Business (WNCB) to mark International Year for Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL – 2021). 

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

Speakers: Brig. Ashok Abbey (retd.), AVSM, President, Indian Mountaineering Foundation; Smt. Rita Gombu Marwah, veteran mountaineer and Member of the 1984 Indian Expedition to Mount Everest, Vice President, Indian Mountaineering Foundation; and Ms Prerna Dangi, professional climber, athlete and guide, accomplished rock climber and one of India's top women ice climbers

Moderator: Shri Mandip Singh Soin

(Collaboration: Indian Mountaineering Foundation)

A weekly screening of four award winning children’s films organized in collaboration with Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Delhi to celebrate National Children’s Day. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in November 2021. Each film will be accessible for a period of 36 hours from Saturday 9 am to Sunday 11:55 pm. The registration link for accessing the weekly screenings is given below:

Life According to Nino (Het leven volgens Nino)
(77 min; 2014; Dutch with English subtitles)
Director: Simone van Dusseldorp

Recipient of the Cinekid Film Award for Best Children’s Film, Cinekid 2014; and Special Jury Diploma ‘Molodists for Kids’ programme, Molodist International Film Festival 2015

The film opens with an almost utopian portrayal of family harmony and happiness.  The narrative begins on the birthday of the film’s lead protagonist, eight-year-old Nino who receives, as a gift — not the dog that he had wished for — but a rabbit. His disappointment is short-lived, however, and Bobby (the newly arrived rabbit’s name) is ready to join the happy family. This happy idyll is shattered by the death of Nino’s mother. Nino and his teenaged brother Lucas are left to deal with life on their own... 

Life According to Nino takes a potentially dour story and infuses it with humour and vitality. 

Screening schedule and online registration to access the films

Family Film | Eye Film Player

This series deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? In two epic, surreal and mind-expanding films, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these questions as he explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness.

Nothing | Click here to watch
(58 min; English)
The second part, Nothing, explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim can prove it. 
 

A series of documentaries presented by the historian Bettany Hughes. Travelling across present locations, Bettany explores the cultural and political pasts of ancient peoples, including the Greeks, Minoans and Egyptian.

The Ancient Worlds: The Minoans | Click here to watch
(50 min; English)

The tale of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth is perhaps the most compelling of all Greek myths. Just over 100 years ago, English archaeologist Arthur Evans went to the 'Minotaur's Island' to explore the roots of this myth and discovered instead a sophisticated Bronze Age civilisation that had been lost to history for thousands of years.

He called them The Minoans, and the riches of their culture astonished the world, prompting Evans to proclaim them the first civilisation of the Western World.

Tagore and Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together
By Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Aleph Book Company, New Delhi: September 2021)

Discussants: Shri Tushar Gandhi, President, Lok Seva Trust and Director, Gandhi Research Foundation; Dr. Ravindra Kumar, former Vice-Chancellor, CCS University, Meerut and Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut; and Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian and author of the book

Chair: Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, academic, poet and Convenor, English Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi and President, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, ICCR, Kolkata

It is said in south India that one is lucky to eat like a Chettiar. Enormously wealthy, this small community of traders, merchants and moneylenders’ engagement in trade with South East Asian countries like Ceylon, Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma made a significant impact on Chettiar cuisine, visible even today. Having once lived in proximity to the sea, the Chettiars used seafood to create many of their signature dishes such as meen kuzhambu (fish curry), nandu (crab) masala, sura puttu (shark fin curry), and eral (prawn) masala. From their inland homes in the hot and arid Tamil hinterland come recipes with jungle fowl, kada (quail), muyal (rabbit), and pitta (turkey).

Foreign ingredients and preservation techniques like sun-dried meats, berries, salted vegetables and pickles in brine have also enriched the culinary repertoire of this well-travelled community. IIC will be serving the special menu from 12th to 14th November 2021. 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 order at: 011-24609359, 24609449, 24609472

Members can also WhatsApp their order at 9910333937
 

Kanwal Wali
Secretary

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
 
The exhibition commemorates the restoration of Poland’s independence and sovereignty in 1918 as the Second Polish Republic. Following the partition of Poland by the Prussian, Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires in the late 18th century, Poland ceased to exist as an independent, united entity for 123 years until the end of World War I. Polish military interventions and the fall of the erstwhile empires allowed the divided country to reunite and re-emerge as an independent state.
 
On view are digital copies of archive photographs, documents and texts.
 

 (Collaboration: Embassy of Poland; and Polish Institute, New Delhi)

Meet the Artist

Bose Krishnamachari, artist and curator, and the co-founder and President of Kochi Biennale will speak on The Indian Biennale

Bose Krishnamachari is an artist and independent curator, living and working between Mumbai and Kochi. His diverse artistic and curatorial practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, design, installation and architecture. He was Artistic Director and Co-Curator of India’s first Biennale – The Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Director of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, 2016 and 2018, and is President of the Kochi Biennale Foundation

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Arts)

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/95126777268
Meeting ID: 951 2677 7268

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Ghulam Hasan Khan from Delhi, disciple of Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan

Accompanied by Junaid Hasan (tanpura and vocal support); Zakir Dholpuri (harmonium); and Romaan Khan (tabla)

At 19:00

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Shreyasi Gopinath from Delhi, disciple of Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan and the late Guru Jamuna Krishnan

Kindly please make a note

• Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium for cultural programmes
• Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
• Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
• There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

We request audiences to kindly abide by the above regulations