An Evening of Poetry
With poets - Malay (Jabalpur); Teji Grover (Hoshangabad); Natasha (Patna); and Krishna Mohan Jha (Silchar) who will read their own work

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

The programme can be accessed on:
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YouTube@The Raza Foundation

From 12th August 2021 from 12.00 midnight to 13th August 2021, 11.59 hours

(92 min; 2018; Hebrew & Yiddish with English subtitles)
Director: Eliran Malka

Recipient of the Award of the Israeli Academy for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing & Best Make-up, Academy of Israeli Film Academy 2019; and Key to Discovery Award for Best Film, Moscow Jewish Film Festival 2019. An orthodox single father whose daughter was expelled from school for ethnic reasons, decides to run for the city elections and almost single-handedly established the first ethnic political group in Israel. The political party is today an empire with half a million voters and plays a significant role in society. Based on a true story. 

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(Collaboration: Embassy of Israel)

Is Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Nazi propaganda – or the greatest film about sport ever made? The two-part documentary has been acclaimed as a masterpiece that revolutionised the way sport was depicted on screen.  This epic record of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games attempts to combine sporting reportage with a celebration of physical beauty and the spectacle involved in this uniquely unifying event. And what cinema historians still debate today is whether Riefenstahl was defying Goebbels and Hitler all those summers ago, or whether she was doing exactly what they wanted. 

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (Olympia 2. Teil-Fest der Schönheit) | ( Click here to watch )
(90 min; 1938; b/w/; German with English subtitles)
Director: Leni Reifenstahl     

Recipient of the Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film, Venice Film Festival 1939

Part Two features the track and field events. Riefenstahl captures the grace of athletes during field hockey, soccer, cycling, equestrian, aquatic and gymnastic events. Riefenstahl celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. The production tends to glorify the young male body and, some say, expresses the Nazi attitude toward athletic prowess. Highlights are the Pentathlon and the Decathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris; it ends with the triumphant conclusion of the games.

(54 min; 2010)
Director/Choreographer: Yannis Adoniou
Music: Minos Matsas
Vocalist: Catherine Clambaneva
Shadow Theatre Artist: Leonidas Kassapides

Yannis Adoniou, the artistic director of KUNST-STOFF, has become known for his unusual and highly visual theatrical dance works, which merge different art forms, often creating unexpected collisions and provocative beauty. Rebetiko explores the origins and evolution of Rembetiko, the “illegal” folk music of the underground hashish dens of Pireaus and Thessaloniki, frequently compared to the American blues as a form of musical expression for the desperate and despairing. The Greco-Turkish War uprooted some two million people, and Rembetiko gave voice to their extreme anguish. Using elements of Greek folk and post-modern dance, darkness and song, choreographer Yannis Adoniou, vocalist Catherine Clambaneva and shadow theatre artist Leonidas Kassapides excavate their homeland’s history to create a sensorially captivating work.

A virtual tour of the city conducted by Caterina Brazzi Castracane, historian, author and tour guide

Vicenza, known as the “city of Palladio”, was founded in the 2nd century B.C. in northern Italy. Vicenza prospered under Venetian rule from the early 15th to the end of the 18th century. The work of Andrea Palladio (1508–80), based on a detailed study of classical Roman architecture, gives the city its unique appearance. Palladio's urban buildings, as well as his villas, scattered throughout the Veneto region, had a decisive influence on the development of architecture. His work inspired a distinct architectural style known as Palladian, which spread to England and other European countries, and also to North America.

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

(50 min)
Recording of Professor Mahmood Mamdani giving the Edward W Said London Lecture 2017 on 31 March 2017, at The British Museum, London. Prof. Mamdani is a Ugandan academic, author and political commentator, presently Chancellor, Kampala International University, Uganda; Director, Makerere Institute of Social Science Research; the Herbert Lehmann Professor of Government, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; and Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies, Columbia University. In the lecture Mamdani examines the question of justice in the postcolonial period, in the writings of Aime Cesaire and Nelson Mandela. He looks at how South Africa's transition from apartheid presents a critique of the lessons drawn from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals.

Of Bridges & Breaks- The Constitution at a Crossroads |  ( Click here to watch )

Electoral Democracy in India – From Spectacle to Substance

Speakers: Shri R. Venkataramani, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and former Member, Law Commission of India; and Dr. Neelanjan Sircar, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University and Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

Moderator: Ms Ritwika Sharma, Lead Charkha and Senior Resident Fellow, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

A new year-long series of monthly conversations jointly curated and presented with Charkha, the Constitutional Law Research Centre, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. The conversations have been envisaged to spark thoughtful, nuanced discussions on some of the most significant constitutional challenges of our times. The conversations will focus on three broad themes – understanding Indian democracy, unpacking Indian federalism, and unearthing civil liberties

This Life at Play: Memoirs

By Girish Karnad; translated by Girish Karnad and Srinath Perur (Fourth Estate: 19 May 2021)

Discussants: Ms Nasreen Munni Kabir, television producer, director and author based in UK; Ms Arundhati Ghosh, Executive Director, India Foundation for the Arts; and Dr. Srinath Perur, writer, author and co-translator of the book

Chair: Shri Suryasarathi Bhattacharya

Girish Karnad was one of modern India’s greatest cultural figures: an accomplished actor, a path-breaking director, an innovative administrator, a clear-headed and erudite thinker, a public intellectual with an unwavering moral compass, and above all, the most extraordinarily gifted playwright of his times. Moving and humorous, This Life at Play translated from the Kannada in part by Karnad himself and in part by Srinath Perur, is insightful and candid, the memoirs provide an unforgettable glimpse into the life-shaping experiences of a towering genius, and a unique window into the India in which he lived and worked.  

Travel to south India this weekend and enjoy the incomparable flavours of Chettinad cuisine. Modern-day Chettiars have inherited recipes, ingredients and cooking methods from the migrations of mercantile ancestors who travelled across Burma, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra and Vietnam. Meat and foreign spices soon crept into vegetarian Chettiar food, fusing into a fiery, complex cuisine that would soon distinguish itself from others in south India. Traditionally, meals are served on banana leaves and follow a specific protocol—each dish has a designated space and order in which it must be served. IIC will be serving the special menu from 6th to 8th August 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

Kanwal Wali
Secretary

It has been observed that some Members of the Centre have been proposing/seconding a very large number of applications for Short Term Associate Membership (STAM).   
 
It has been decided that a Member may propose/second a maximum of three Applications of persons whom they have known for significant periods and consider them truly eligible for membership of the Centre. If a Member is found to have proposed/seconded more than three Applications, the excess number of applications (beyond 3) proposed/seconded by him/her shall not be considered, being held invalid. 
 
Members are requested to please appreciate our concern and cooperate. 
 

K.N. Shrivastava
Director IIC