[20 min; 1999; English]
Director: Aleksandr Petrov

Multiple award winner including Oscar Award for Best Short Film, Animated, Academy Awards, USA 2000; Audience Award & Grand Prix for Best Animated Short Film, Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2000; First Prize, Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films 2000; among others

Aleksandr Petrov’s multiple award-winning animation film is based on Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella of the same name. More than two years of painting on glass sheets, using brushes but mostly his own fingers, resulted in over 29,000 paintings that enabled Petrov to produce this absolutely awesome, one of a kind feast of colours, images, and emotions that celebrate the famous work of literature and its creator.

A 2010 Discovery Channel Smini science documentary series with Stephen Hawking. The world's most famous living scientist explores the greatest mysteries of the cosmos. In three landmark instalments he reveals the wonders of the universe as never seen before. Definitive, provocative, surprising, and beautiful, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking is a fascinating look through the mind's eye of one of the finest brains on the planet.

EPISODE 3: The Story of Everything [86:34 min]
In this episode, Hawking reveals the wonders of the cosmos to a new generation. Delve into the mind of the world's most famous living scientist and reveal the splendour and majesty of the universe as never seen before. See how the universe began, how it creates stars, black holes and life — and how everything will end.

[92:26 min]
A family drama 
Performed by drama students at Niagara University, U.S.A. during lockdown in October 2020 as part of the educational work of The Live Literature Company founded by Valerie Doulton.

Curated and Developed by Valerie Doulton
Directed by Valerie Doulton & Josie DiVincenzo

CAST: Laura Barcomb; Adriana Bollinger; Sariah Call; Skylah Fields; Zach Gammel; Zachary King; Isabel Merkel; Nathaniel Park; Caleb Paxton; Randi Sykes; and C.J. Webster

The subtitle 'A Family Drama' refers to the structure Valerie devised in which Shakespeare's Kings & Queens are all shown in scenes which dramatise their family relationships. Valerie chose to end with King Lear's dying words because of the tragic situation in the world today. Scenes from the History plays are directed by Josie DiVincenzo and the Comedies, Tragedies & Late plays, by Valerie Doulton.
 

[47:23 min; 1999; English]
Director: Philippe Molins
Written by Alberto Manguel

Documentary on one of Latin America’s most famous and beloved literary figures, Jorge Luis Borges. The great Argentine writer and poet is considered, along with Gabriel García Márquez, as one of the main progenitors of the school of “magical realism” in literature. Despite suffering from progressive blindness for most of his life, Borges wrote of time, dreams, infinity, the universe, secret societies impenetrable labyrinths, memory, folk heroes, God and his fascination with, and childhood fear of, mirrors, a major recurring theme in his work.

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

The Mystic and the Lyric : Four Women Poets from Kashmir
by Neerja Mattoo

PANELISTS:  Prof. Malashri Lal, Academic, Writer & Editor (Moderator); Prof. Shafi  Shauq, Poet, Fiction, Writer, Linguistic, Critic; Prof. Shormishtha Panja, Professor of English, University of Delhi ; Ms. Kaveri Bamzai, Author & Journalist; Prof. Neerja Mattoo, Academic, Writer & Author of the book.

CHAIR: Sh. N. N. Vohra, President, IIC

CIRCULAR

Consequent to the sad passing away of Shri Soli J. Sorabjee and the resignation of Justice (Retd.) B.N. Srikrishna, two vacancies of Life Trustees had arisen.

We are pleased to inform Members that the Life Trustees have appointed Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, eminent Educationist, and Dr. Shailesh Nayak, reputed Earth Scientist, as Life Trustees of the Centre. Their brief bio-data may be viewed at the links given below:

Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath (click here to view)

Dr. Shailesh Nayak (click here to view)

Kanwal Wali
Secretary, IIC

BOOK DISCUSSION on

Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India
By Sandeep Bamzai

ABOUT THE BOOK: In the run-up to independence, a vile plan was devised by a handful of powerful princes to not join either India or Pakistan. The plan was led by the Chancellor of the chamber of princes, Nawab of Bhopal, who was operating under the patronage of Mohd. Ali Jinnah, Lord Wavell and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The idea was to create a third dominion called Princestan where the 565 princely states would stay outside the ambit of the two free states and retain paramountcy under the aegis of the departing British. The success of such a malevolent plan would have made the newly independent nation unstable and vulnerable. However, three persons stood in the way of the nefarious British plan to balkanize India. This is the hitherto untold story of how Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten and Sardar Patel battled the rulers of the princely states at every twist and turn to foil that cunning plan, even as the process of decolonization had begun.

CHAIR: Shri Gurcharan Das, Author, Commentator, & Public Intellectual

PANELISTS: Prof. Rajendra G. Harshe, Former Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Allahabad & Visiting Prof, South Asian University; Shri Ashok Bhan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Shri Sandeep Bamzai, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, IANS &  Author of the Book

6th Lecture and Discussion under the
IIC/OPEN HEALTH SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

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Doug Engelbart (1925 – 2013), engineer and inventor was an early computer and Internet pioneer best known for his work on founding the field of human-computer interaction, which resulted in the creation of the computer mouse and the development of hypertext, network computers the precursors to graphical user interfaces. 

LEAD SPEAKER: Dr. Jim Spohrer, computer scientist, Director, Cognitive OpenTech for IBM Research - Almaden and directs the Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT).

DISCUSSANTS: Christina Engelbart, daughter of Doug Engelbart, and co-founder and Executive Director of Doug Engelbart Institute; Daniel Araya, Senior Partner, the World Legal Summit and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); and Mei Lin Fung, Co-founder of People-Centered Internet (PCI) and Vice-Chair, Internet Inclusion, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). 

CHAIR: Dr. Nandini Kannan, Executive Director, Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF)

Time: 7:00am — 8:30am (PDT)/ 7:30pm — 9:00pm (IST)

Open Health Systems Colloquium is a collaboration between the Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) and the India International Centre (IIC). Its goal is to bring together leading thinkers to present and discuss life science issues in an effort to provoke innovative, holistic, and ultimately paradigm shifting approaches to life sciences. By making the latest developments in biomedical sciences accessible in the public domain, the goal is to stimulate debate and deliberation across disciplines. 

SPEAKER: Cmde C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi

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

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