Nepal’s Constitutional Crisis

Panelists: Prof. S.D. Muni, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Nischal Pandey, Centre for South Asian Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal

Panelist & Moderator: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

Nepal was faced with a constitutional crisis last month when Prime Minister K.P. Oli suddenly dissolved Parliament where he had a majority and ordered elections for April-May this year. He is now caretaker Prime Minister with a divided Nepal Communist Party. The Supreme Court will either restore the House or uphold Oli’s decision for elections. The Webinar will address the aftermath of the crisis especially repercussions for Nepal, China and India.

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 for your reference.

Welcome Address: Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Special Address: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest

One Nation – One Subscription

Keynote Address: Prof. K. Vijayaraghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Govt. of India

The half-day seminar will address issues of Copyright provisions for Library: Guidelines for Librarians; and Under Covid-19 Copyright challenges in the digital era

Organised in collaboration with Atal Behari Vajpayee School of Management & Entrepreneurship, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Sanrachana – A Policy Think Tank

Livestock, Food Security and The Farm Laws

Speaker: Dr. Sagari R. Ramdas, veterinary scientist and member Food Sovereignty Alliance, India who is learning to be an agro-ecological food farmer. A popular educator at The Kudali Intergenerational Learning Centre, Telangana in the areas of women and food sovereignty; Adivasi, indigenous resilience and Buen Vivir and agro-ecological livestock production in the context of Food Sovereignty and Climate Change. She has published widely on gender, ecological governance and social movements.

Moderator: Shri Siraj Hussain, Visiting Senior Fellow, ICRIER

Livestock are a critical component of farming livelihoods and contribute vitally to India’s food and nutritional security. The 3 farm laws recently enacted in India, are set to impact the markets of animals and animal derived food products, and have consequences for every food consumer in India, particularly the vast majority of nutritionally compromised citizens. The lecture will present the connections through the lens of milk, meat and eggs.

Chitraanjali – Stefan Norblin in India | (59 min; 2011; dvd; English)

Director: Malgorzata Skiba

The film tells the forgotten story of Polish artist, Stefan Norblin(1892-1952), who found safe haven in India during WWII and spent six eventful years working for the royal families of Morvi, Ramgarh and Jodhpur. The film is a tribute to the art of the Polish painter and brings back to limelight the fascinating landscape of the Art Deco period in Poland and in India

Organised in collaboration with Polish Institute, New Delhi. The festival presents 8 award-winning feature and documentary 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 

On Saturday, 23^rd January 2021 from 12:00 to 11:59 hrs

Birds are Singing in Kigali (Ptaki spiewaja w Kigali) | (113 min; 2017; Polish with English subtitles)

Directors: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Kruze

Multiple award winner including Best Actress Awards at Chicago International Film Festival 2017 & Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017; Best Performance Award, LET’s CEE Film Festival 2018; Best Feature Film, Best Actress & Best Editing, Polish Film Festival 2017; Grand Prix, 10^th CinÉast Film Festival 2017; among others

Birds are Singing in Kigali is a multi-layered drama of two women who survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Polish ornithologist Anna Keller and Rwandan Claudine Mugambira. Both women, suffering deeply, engage in a complex and piercing psychological process of healing and restoration of their daily lives… 

A Beautiful Equation – Einstein, Bohrs and Grandmothers | (53 min; 2014; English)

Director: Robin Truesdale

Recipient of the Platinum Remi Award, Houston Worldfest 2015; and Best International Film, Sunrise Film Festival, Nova Scotia 2015

Eight grandmothers join forces to perform a theatrical production about two historic physicists, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. As they reveal untold chapters in the famed scientists’ biographies, they also discover new stories about themselves. Their powerful message extends beyond age, gender, and even science – an affirmation of the value of playfulness and imagination within us all

Gandhiji’s views on Arts, Aesthetics and Culture

Speaker: Dr. Varsha Das, former Director, National Book Trust and National Gandhi Museum and art critic

The talk explores Gandhiji’s views on art and culture, his views on beauty and aesthetics and the role of art in life

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.