Indian Constitution: What it Should mean Today

Speaker: Shri Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Welcome Remarks: Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS

Chair: Shri Jayant Sinha, MP and formerly Minister of State for Finance and Minister of State for Civil Aviation

Panelists: Shri K.V. Kamath, former President, New Development Bank; Dr. Vishwapati Trivedi, former Secretary, Govt. of India; Dr. Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research; and Shri Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Adjunct Senior Fellow, RIS

(Collaboration: RIS)

A documentary series presented by Michael Wood, exploring magnificent masterpieces of the Western world in their cultural and historical settings. The series consists of eighteen episodes, each of which focusses on the artistic contributions of one period in the history of the West, from Ancient Greece to the late 1980s. From the classical ideals in Greek and Roman antiquity, through the Renaissance, to the postmodernism of the later 1980s, the series provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Two episodes will be presented every week online

Episode 1 – The Legacy of Greece (25 min) |  Click here to watch
This episode traces the origins of humanism and the immortal classical style to Ancient Greece

Episode 2- Imperial Stone: The Art of Rome (26 min) |  Click here to watch
The genius of Roman engineering and architecture was used to build an empire, whilst portrait sculpture exalted its rulers

Organised in collaboration with Ashoka University and in partnership with TORCH, Oxford University; and the India Oxford Initiative, the online symposium will address the need for rethinking suggested by the word ‘decolonisation’. Speakers at the symposium include Aditya Chakrabortty; Amit Chaudhuri; Debashree Mukherjee; Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Rohini Godbole, Ram Ramaswamy and Somak Raychaudhury with Subir Sarkar; Francesca Orsini; Aamer Hussein; and Jon Cook. 

Members and non members interested in attending the symposium are requested to kindly please click on the link below for the web page of the symposium:
https://ashoka.edu.in/articles/welcome-684

Zoom Links
Day 1:  Mar 20, 2021, 05:00 PM India
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/99416803696

Day 2: Mar 21, 2021 05:00 PM India
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/95917374229

The programme will start sharp at 6.00 pm and can be watched directly on youtube link given below

Chameli Devi Jain Awards 2020

Presented to an Outstanding Woman Journalist

Followed by
B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture 
What journalists can and should learn from social media

Speaker: Alan Rusbridger, Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and former Editor-in-Chief, The Guardian
Chair: Shri Harish Khare

https://youtu.be/jQVQC5mNabc | Click here to watch

A festival of Spanish films directed by women filmmakers organized in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi. The five award winning films to be screened have been made by film directors who made their cinematic debut in the 1950s and 1960s and are pioneers in the history of Spanish cinema. The films not only reflect the work and aesthetics of these women directors, they also present an interesting portrait of the historical period in Spain from 1953 to 1981. Two films will be screened every Wednesday and Saturday in March 2021 accessible for a duration of 48 hours. Vimeo links to the films will be posted in the IIC website (www.iicdelhi.in) and sent by email.

Evening Performance (Función de noche) |(90 min; 1981; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Josefina Molina

The actress Lola Herrera acts in Miguel Delibes’s play Five Hours with Mario every night. As time goes by, she reflects on the character she plays, Carmen Sotillo, and the similarities she finds between them.

https://cultura.cervantes.es/nuevadelhi/en/night-show/140699
 

A festival of Spanish films directed by women filmmakers organized in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi. The five award winning films to be screened have been made by film directors who made their cinematic debut in the 1950s and 1960s and are pioneers in the history of Spanish cinema. The films not only reflect the work and aesthetics of these women directors, they also present an interesting portrait of the historical period in Spain from 1953 to 1981. Two films will be screened every Wednesday and Saturday in March 2021 accessible for a duration of 48 hours. Vimeo links to the films will be posted in the IIC website (www.iicdelhi.in) and sent by email.

The Cuenca Crime (El crimen de Cuenca) | (90 min; 1979; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Pilar Miró

https://vimeo.com/504477502 | click here to watch

Recipient of the Premio Ace Award for Best Actress, Premio Ace Awards 1984

The film is a harsh depiction of real events that took place in 1913, in the province of Cuenca, when two men were wrongly accused of murder, tortured and sent to prison, only to discover on their release that the victim is alive and well.

https://cultura.cervantes.es/nuevadelhi/en/the-crime-of-cuenca/140698
 

Lecture-demonstration by Neera Makhija, Ikebana teacher and potter

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

In this demonstration, Neera will explore the intersections of her ikebana art with her own pottery pieces

(Collaboration: Sogetsu School, Delhi)

Betrayed by Hope: A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt
By Namita Gokhale and Malshri Lal (HarperCollins, New Delhi: 2020)
 
Discussants: Prof. Harish Trivedi, writer, translator and formerly Professor of English, University of Delhi; Dr. Aruna Chakravarti, novelist and translator, formerly Principal, Janki Devi College; Shri Oroon Das, multidisciplinary designer, theatre artist and performer, Creative Director, Oddworks; and Ms Namita Gokhale, co-author of the book, writer, publisher and Festival Director
 
Moderator: Prof. Malashri Lal, co-author of the book, writer and academic