Introduction: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Speaker: Shri A.K. Srivastava, IFS (retd.), Director General, Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests (NCCF), New Delhi
Chair: Mr. Ben Gunneberg, CEO and Secretary General, The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, Geneva, Switzerland

The talk will elaborate on the work of NCCF and how certification is an emerging global movement that supports sustainable development, while ensuring compliance to all forest and wildlife related legislations, rights of local communities including tribal and workers, economic growth, fair trade, livelihoods, value chains, consumer protection, and also enhancing competiveness, technological innovation and quality of health and safety of forest workers, biodiversity and environmental conservation.

You are cordially invited to join the Webinar and contribute to the discussion that follows. Advance registration is mandatory for those wishing to ask questions during the Webinar session. Those registered will be sent a password to access the session. Please find attached the Webinar Notice and a note on the lecture for your perusal.
 

Keynote Address: Dr. Rakesh Mohan, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University & Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress, and was the Executive Director and Chief Mentor, Brookings India
 
Panelists: Shri G.A. Tadas, formerly Executive Director, IDBI; Prof. Stephany Griffith-Jones, Financial Markets Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University; and Prof. Milindo Chakrabarti, Visiting Fellow, RIS
 
Welcome Remarks: Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS
 
Moderator: Smt Shyamala Gopinath, former Deputy Governor RBI and Member, RIS Governing Council
 
(Collaboration: RIS)
 

15th February 2021 at 4 pm
IIC Library    
 
Portraits of Power: Half a Century Being at Ringside
By N.K. Singh (New Delhi: Rupa Publications India, 2020)
 
Discussants: Dr. Rakesh Mohan, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University & Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress; Ms Prachi Mishra, Advisor, Research Department, International Monetary Fund; Ms Jessica Seddon, Visiting Research Scholar, M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, Princeton University; and Shri N.K. Singh, Economist and author of the book
 
Moderator: Prof. Indira Rajaraman, former Member, 13th Finance Commission
 

Ikebana demonstration by Mr. Ken Katayama, Master Instructor, Sogetsu School, Tokyo

Introduction: Smt Veena Dass, President, Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Delhi Chapter

Mr. Katayama has a Riji degree and has assisted and worked with the founder of Sogetsu School, Mr. Sofu Teshigahara. He has travelled extensively, exhibiting, demonstrating and conducting workshops in Japan and abroad. Mr. Katayama has published a collection of his works titles Ryo

Topic: Sogetsu February Program 
Time: Feb 11, 2021,12:00 PM Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi 
 

(Collaboration: Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Delhi Chapter; and Embassy of Japan)

Organised in collaboration with Cervantes Institute, New Delhi,  a tribute to well-known Spanish actress, Ángela Molina. One of the most outstanding actresses in Spanish cinema with a career spanning over four decades and an extensive filmography of almost a hundred films, Ángela Molina rose to international prominence in Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Three Spanish feature films will be screened over three weekends in February. Vimeo links for each of the films will be sent by email and posted on the website. Each film can be accessed for a period of 48 hours.

La Sabina (Spain/Sweden) | (105 min; 1979; Spanish with English subtitles)

Director: José Luis Borau

Recipient of the CEC Awards for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress, Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 1980

Michael, an English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar in the 19^th century. There he learns about the legend of “La Sabina”, a mysterious dragon woman…

 The Vimeo link will be activated on 13th February 2021 from 00:30 hrs. The film can be accessed for a period of 48 hours.

https://vimeo.com/501867137

https://cultura.cervantes.es/nuevadelhi/en/la-sabina/140092

Nanook of the North | (79 min; 1922; b/w; silent with English title cards)

Director: Robert J. Flaherty

Considered the first feature length documentary, Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region. Enormously popular when released in 1922, Nanook of the North is a cinematic milestone that continues to enchant audiences.