Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi

Tsubo-niwa | (28 min; 2016; English and with subtitles)

Traditional Kyoto Machiya townhouses have narrow entrances, and are long and deep. At the back lie small Tsubo-niwa gardens (courtyard gardens), enclosed on all sides. Originally serving to provide light and ventilate the house, they enabled residents to comfortably endure the intense, summer heat. The gardener does not fill it up the space, instead he carefully arranges a few items and links the garden compositionally to his home. And he exploits numerous untouchables: wind direction, sounds, seasons, sunlight, the true and apparent dimensions of empty space.

An exhibition from the collection of Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi Circle’s archives. On view are reproductions of archival photographs, lithographs, sketches of the medieval monument by engineers and artists including engineer Ensign Blunt from 1794 and the camera’s used for documenting the site

The exhibition is on view from 18^th to 31^st January 2021, 11 am to 7 pm at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex

(Collaboration: Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi Circle)

Welcome Remarks: Professor Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS

Inaugural Remarks: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Chair: Shri Rajnish Kumar, Former Chairman, State Bank of India

Panellists: Professor Ananth Narayan, Associate Professor (Adjunct), Head of Public Policy, SPJIMR, Mumbai; Dr. Amey Sapre Assistant Professor, NIPFP, New Delhi; Professor Manmohan Agarwal, Senior Adjunct  Fellow, RIS

This webinar is first in the series of banking and finance. The panellists will explore the different aspects of economic development, trade, investment and technology through the webinar.

Organised in collaboration with Polish Institute, New Delhi. The festival presents 8 award-winning feature films from Poland. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in January 2021. The password for accessing each film will be shared by email one day before the screenings  

All for My Mother (Wszystko dla mojej matki) | (103 min; 2019; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Małgorzata Imielska

Recipient of the Best Debut Actor award, Polish Film Festival 2019; Audience Award and Special Mention, Warsaw International Film Festival 2019

Olka, a tomboyish seventeen year old must endure life in a court-ordered reformatory as she plots a way to find her mother…
    

Organised in collaboration with Polish Institute, New Delhi. The festival presents 8 award-winning feature films from Poland. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in January 2021. The password for accessing each film will be shared by email one day before the screenings  

A Coach’s Daughter (Córka trenera) | (93 min; 2018; Polish with English subtitles)
Director: Lukasz Grzegorzek

Recipient of the Best Youth Film Award, Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema, 2018; and Distinction for Best Actor & “Rising Star” awards, Polish Feature Competition, International Independent Film Festival ‘Off Camera’, 2019

During one hot summer season, Maciej Kornet (47) and his beloved daughter Wiktoria (17) set out on another journey across Poland for a long series of tennis tournaments. The two are inseparable, training together for twelve years, Wiktoria meticulously follows her father’s routine. But at one of the tournaments, the dynamics of their relationship changes with the arrival of Igor, a young, promising tennis player…  

In the Age of AI | (113 min; 2019; English)
Directors: Neil Docherty, David Fanning

PBS International Frontline investigates the promise and perils of AI; from fears of work and privacy to rivalry between the U.S. and China. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance

Ladies and Gentlemen…Mr. Leonard Cohen (Canada) | (44 min; 1965; b/w; English & with subtitles)
Directors: Don Owen & Donald Brittain
Produced by National Film Board of Canada

Recipient of the Canadian Film Award for Best TV Information, Canadian Film Awards 1966

An informal portrait of Leonard Cohen that captures the noted poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. The film follows Cohen at age 30 on a visit to his hometown of Montreal, where he comes “to renew his neurotic affiliations.” Interspersed with interviews and Cohen’s own poetry readings mostly taken from The Spice-Box Earth and Flowers for Hitler   

Hindustani Vocal 
By Ashish Ranade from Nasik, disciple of Pt. Anand Bhate

Followed by
Kathak
Group recital by Deepak Aurora and party from Gurgaon/Delhi, disciple of Pt. Rajendra Gangani

Speakers: Dr. Ashis Nandy, political psychologist, social theorist, Trustee, IIC; Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, and Vice-Dean, School of Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat

Moderator: Rajni Bakshi, freelance journalist and author

Ahimsa Conversations is an online forum for a wide range of reflections on the possibilities of nonviolence. The Conversations feature activists, ecologists, scholars, philosophers, politicians and people from the world of business sharing their experiences and ideas about their experiments with nonviolence. In this Webinar, the eminent scholars will critically contextualize this attempt to widen the space for Ahimsa in the public discourse. Based on their own intensive experiences with the striving for nonviolence, Dr. Nandy and Prof. Jahanbegloo will explore what challenges and difficult questions must be addressed through Ahimsa Conversations going forward.