THE APU TRILOGY
21 December 2019, 05:30 am
THE APU TRILOGY
Programme Type
Festivals
THE APU TRILOGY
Apur Sansar (The World of Apu/Bengali)
(107 min; 1959; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)
With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty
Recipient of the Sutherland Trophy, British Film Institute Awards, 1959; National Film Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, 1959; and NBR Awards for Best Foreign Film & Top Foreign Films, National Board of Reviews, USA 1960
Based on the last two-thirds of the 1932 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the trials and tribulations in Apu’s adult world
THE APU TRILOGY
20 December 2019, 05:30 am
THE APU TRILOGY
Programme Type
Festivals
THE APU TRILOGY
Aparajito (The Unvanquished/Bengali)
(113 min; 1956; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)
With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sen Gupta
Recipient of the FIPRESCIPrize & Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1957; Golden Gate Award for Best Director, San Francisco International Film Festival 1958; and NBR Award for Top Foreign Film, National Board of Review, USA 1959
The film chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college, the death of his mother, and his journey into the real world
THE APU TRILOGY: 19 TO 21 DECEMBER 2019
19 December 2019, 05:30 am
THE APU TRILOGY: 19 TO 21 DECEMBER 2019
Programme Type
Festivals
The Apu Trilogy: 19 to 21 December 2019
Organised to mark the birth centenary of Karuna Banerjee, noted Bengali actress who started her career with Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, screening of Ray’s seminal trilogy. Presented in collaboration with National Film Archive of India, Pune, screening of digitally re-mastered version of The Apu Trilogy. The films will be introduced by Samik Bandyopadhyay, well-known film scholar and editor
In Conversation
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, well-known filmmaker and Samit Bandyopadhyay
Followed by
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road/Bengali)
(112 min; 1955; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)
With Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee
Multiple award winner including Best Human Document & OCIC Award – Special Mention, Cannes Film Festival 1956; National Film Awards for Best Feature Film & Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards, 1956; Golden Gate Awards for Best Director & Best Picture, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1957; among others
The first film in the trilogy, the beginning of Apu’s journey
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
19 December 2019, 05:30 am
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Programme Type
Talks
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Christmas Through the Ages
Illustrated lecture with live demonstration by Marilyn Thomas, Lyric Ensemble of Delhi
A session on the biblical perspective of Christmas traced through the history of music up to the present times demonstrated with playback and a few live performances
Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019
17 December 2019, 05:30 am
Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019
Programme Type
Talks,
Webcasts
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019
Freedom & Sons Ltd. – The enterprise of free speech in a market of control
Speaker: Shri Goplakrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal, Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, Ashoka University
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
Moving from a 1941 contempt case brought against The Hindustan Times and through examples including that of Mushirul Hasan, in independent India, the lecture will ask if ‘the mind is without fear’ in India today
Fourth Tasting India Symposium: Food Smart Cities – A Call for Action
17 December 2019, 05:30 am
Fourth Tasting India Symposium: Food Smart Cities – A Call for Action
Programme Type
Seminars
Fourth Tasting India Symposium: Food Smart Cities – A Call for Action
Inaugural Session
Welcome by Ambassador Banashri Bose Harrison, Executive Director, Tasting India Symposium who will also moderate the inaugural session
How Can Smart Cities be Made Liveable? The Copenhagen Experience
Special Address by H.E. Freddy Svayne, Ambassador of Denmark
Making Smart Cities Food Smart
Keynote Address by Shri Pawan Agarwal, CEO, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
11:35 to 12:10 – Urban Agriculture: How City Neighbourhoods Can Become Food Production Hubs
Panelists: Dr. Surinder Tikoo, Tierra Seed Science, Hyderabad; Dr. Rakesh Malhotra, Vardan Agritech, Delhi; Shri Kapil Mandawewala, Edible Routes, Delhi; and Shri Sandeep Munjal, Vedatya, Sohna
Moderator: Sanjoo Malhotra, Co-Founder, Tasting India Symposium
14:04 to 14:25 – Special Address
By Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog
14:25 to 14:55 – Panel discussion: Going Mission Mode – Why India is the Ideal Hub for Plat-Based and Cultivated Alternatives to Meat
Panelists: Shri Kannan Krishnamoorthy, renowned Molecular Biologist & Co-Founder/Chief of Technology, Upstablish; Dr. Pawan Dhar, Dean, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Ashutosh Upadhyaya, Head, Dept. of Food Science and Technology, NIFTEM, Sonipat; Ms Kavya Dashora, Centre for Rural Development and Technology, IIT-Delhi
Moderator: Shri Varun Deshpande, Good Food Institute-India
For details of the programme, kindly please log onto the IIC website www.iicdelhi.in
(Collaboration: Tasting India)
History of Indian Philosophy
16 December 2019, 05:30 am
History of Indian Philosophy
Programme Type
Seminars
History of Indian Philosophy
Launch of the Special Indian Paperback Edition of the book edited by Purushottama Bilimoria and Amy Rayner (New Delhi: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2019)
Panelists: Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor, Ashoka University who has been teaching as Chancellor’s Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, and at the Center for Dharma Studies in Berkeley, USA; Prof. Hari Shankar Prasad, Chair, Philosophy Department, University of Delhi; Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill University, Canada; Ms Samiksha Goyal, Monash University, Australia; and Prof. Bindu Puri, Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr. Devasia Murrupath Antony, Dept. of Philosophy, Hindu College, University of Delhi
Chair: Prof. Shashi Prabha Kumar, formerly at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indo-Tibetan Sanchi University who will also speak
