Rich and exotic, Deccani cuisine is a blend of Mughal, Turkish and Arabic cooking along with the influence of native Telugu and Marathwada cuisines. It evolved during the rule of the Nizams in the mid-17th century. With different recipes for different events, the cuisine is broadly categorized from banquet food to wedding and party foods, and festival and travel foods.  Renowned for much more than its signature Biryani, the cuisine comprises a broad repertoire of rice, wheat and meat dishes with the skilful use of spices, herbs, dry coconut, tamarind and red chilly. IIC will be serving this special menu from 16th to 18th July 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

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Nelson Mandela: The Man of Our Times
Opening Remarks: Suhas Borker

Speaker: Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad, Ram Sathe Chair Professor, Symbiosis School of International Studies, Symbiosis International (deemed University), Pune and formerly India’s Deputy High Commissioner in Pretoria, 1994-97

Closing Remarks: H.E. Mr. Joel Sibusiso Ndebele, South African High Commissioner to India
 
Chair: Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former Indian High Commissioner to Pretoria

(Collaboration: South African High Commission; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
 

Lead presentation by Shri Ranjit Sabikhi, well-known architect
Introduction: Ms Meena Mani

Followed by a dialogue between Shri Ranjit Sabikhi; Prof. Aneerudha Paul, Professor, and Director, Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai; and Ms Tanuja Kanvinde, partner at Kanvinde, Rai and Chowdhury  

Chair: Shri Ashok B. Lall, practicing architect based in Delhi

As towns and cities expand and grow across India, there is a need for design intervention by trained architects. This need has largely remained unrecognised

Higher Defence Management Reforms – Some Challenges

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

Panelists: Lt. Gen. Deependra S. Hooda (retd.), PVSM, AVSM, VSM & BAR, ADC, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command,  Presently Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group; Admiral Arun Prakash (retd.), PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM, ADC, former Chief of the Naval Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee; and Air Chief Marshal Fali H. Major (retd.), PVSM, AVSM, SC, VM, ADC, former Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force and former Member, National Security Advisory Board

Moderator: Lt. Gen. Satish Dua (retd.), PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM, former General Officer of the Indian Army and former Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee

The military is in the midst of a major restructuring exercise with a focus on enhancing jointness and carrying out integration in the three Services. The first step in this direction is the creation of integrated theatre commands that will exercise operational control over assets of the three Services, enable joint planning and warfighting, and lead to resource optimisation. However, there are some apprehensions, particularly in the Air Force, that air resources are limited and the allocation of these within the integrated commands could lead to a weakening of our overall capability.

While much of the debate is focused on integrated commands, reforms in higher defence organizations have a crucial impact on operational decision making within the government, and on the nature of civil military relations. The IIC webinar seeks to look at all the challenges ahead.

Nehru, Tibet and China
By A.S. Bhasin (Penguin, New Delhi: 2021)

Discussants: Amb. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, writer and former Indian Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium, Luxembourg and China; Dr. Zorawar Daulet Singh, author and foreign affairs analyst, Adjunct Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies and Visiting Fellow,  Forum for Strategic Initiative; and Shri A.S. Bhasin, former Director, Ministry of External Affairs and author of the book 

Chair: Amb. Vijay Gokhale, former Foreign Secretary

The Janus Face of Agricultural Policies – Kisan and Sethias: Local and Global
Speaker: Prof. Y.K. Alagh, eminent economist, educationist and Government Policy Adviser, former Minister for Planning and Programme Implementation, Science and Technology and Power

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Visual Arts in Corona Times
A discussion with Mithu Sen, Ranjit Hoskote and Sadanand Menon
Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

Links:
facebookLive@razafoundation
YouTube@The Raza Foundation

With his singular and unwavering style, Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) disregarded the established rules of cinema and created a visual language all his own. Precise compositions, contemplative pacing, low camera angles, and elliptical storytelling are just some of the signature techniques the great filmmaker used to evoke a sense of melancholy and poetry in everyday existence. The three films that Ozu made between 1949 and 1953 constitute his most enduring achievement. Dubbed the “Noriko Trilogy” after the name of the female protagonist in all three films, the films (Late Spring, Early Summer, Tokyo Story) co-star the two most familiar members of Ozu’s longstanding stock company: Chishu Ryu (1904–1993), the director’s favourite actor; and Setsuko Hara (1920–2015), who plays Noriko in all three parts of the trilogy. 

Late Spring (Banshun/Japan) | (108 min; 1949; b/w; with English subtitles) | ( Click here to watch )

Director: Yasujiro Ozoch )

Recipient of the Kinema Junpo Award 1950 for Best Film; and Mainichi Film Concours Award for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay, Mainichi Film Concours 1950. One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu’s family portraits, Late Spring tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu players Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara command this poignant tale of love and loss in post war Japan, which remains as potent today as ever—and a strong justification for its maker’s inclusion in the pantheon of cinema’s greatest directors.

Director: David Wallace

A four-part BBC series, written and presented by Michael Wood

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Great’s amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.

Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexander’s journey as closely as possible, crossing deserts and rivers, from Turkey to war-torn Afghanistan. As the journey progresses, he recreates the drama of Alexanders epic marches and bloody battles. All along the way he finds proof of the survival of the legends surrounding Alexander, a leader whose life has excited the world’s imagination for the 2,000 years.

Episode IV: To the Ends of the Earth (60 min) 
Alexander turns towards India, heading for what he believed would be the end of the earth. Michael Wood traces Alexander’s route through the northwest frontier region of Pakistan, the plains of the Punjab, down the Indus river, and by camel across the Makran desert back to Babylon – where Alexander died, aged 32.

Verona – The City of Love and Wine
A virtual tour of the city conducted by Caterina Brazzi Castracane, historian, author and tour guide

The historic city of Verona in northern Italy’s Veneto region, was founded in the 1st century B.C. A UNESCO World Heritage city, Verona flourished under the rule of the Scaliger family in the 13th and 14th centuries and as part of the Republic of Venice from the 15th to 18th centuries. The city has preserved a remarkable number of monuments from antiquity, the medieval and Renaissance periods, and represents an outstanding example of a military stronghold. 

An initiative of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi and Bell’Italia 88