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VP Dutt Memorial Lecture | India as Teacher by Negative Example: Chinese Perceptions of India During the British Colonial Period and Their Impact on Contemporary India-China Relations

VP Dutt Memorial Lecture |
India as Teacher by Negative Example: Chinese Perceptions of India During the British Colonial Period and Their Impact on Contemporary India-China Relations 

Speaker: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary of India, Member,Governing Council, ICS

 
Abstract
The history of ancient civilizational links between India and China is often cited as the enduring basis for India-China friendship. However, contemporary India-China relations have been much more influenced by Chinese encounters with British imperialism, with Indians playing the role of subordinate instruments of British depredations in China. India was held up by Chinese intellectuals as a teacher by negative example, its easy subjugation by the British, its fragmented and disunited polity. China would need to avoid these dangers if it were to regain its full independence and modernisation. These perceptions persist and influence Chinese policy towards India in contemporary times and need careful analysis.
 

The ‘Other’ Shangri-la

The ‘Other’ Shangri-la

Journeys through the Sino-Tibetan frontier in Sichuan

 

Illustrated lecture by Shivaji Das, Singapore based author of the recently published
book (Konarak Publishers: India/USA, 2020), travel writer, photographer and Managing
Director-APAC for Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting company

 

Chair: Shri Ravi Bhoothalingam

 

The ‘Other’ Shangri-la, gives a vivid account of Shivaji Das’ travels through the Sino-Tibetan frontier
of Sichuan province, along with his Chinese wife Lobo. Written in an easy, humourous way, the travelogue
takes the reader through some of the region’s very beautiful but tough mountain terrain

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Uncle Joe (USA)

Film
 
Uncle Joe (USA)
 
(50 min; 1041; b/w; English)
 
Directors: Howard M. Railsback and Raymond E. Swartley
 
Film Source: Internet Archive/Public Domain

 
A whimsical picture of life in rural America in the 1940's, Clare Day is sent to visit her mother's brother Joe in "Baysville", Iowa when she starts going out with a modernistic artist of whom her father disaproves. The four boys who live next door to Uncle Joe remember Clare as a skinny little girl and are shocked by how grown-up she has become 
   
 
 

The Royal Palace and the Palatine Chapel, Palermo

The Royal Palace and the Palatine Chapel, Palermo (34 min )
A virtual tour of the royal chapel in Palermo conducted by Angelina Jimbo
 
The Palantine Chapel is the royal chapel of the Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily. The building is a mix of Byzantine, Norman and
Fatimid architectural styles, representing the tricultural heritage of Sicily especially during the 12th century 
 
An initiative of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi and Bell’Italia 88
 

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
 
Amala Shankar: My Dance Teacher (34 min)
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Urmimala Sarkar, specialist in Dance Studies, who joined the Uday Shankar India Culture Centre and trained under the great danseuse Smt Amala Shankar and was later associated with the Centre as dancer and administrator. Dr. Sarkar is presently Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
Introduction: Prof. Partho Dutta
 
A tribute to Smt Amala Shankar (1919-2020), noted dancer , choreographer, and wife of Uday Shankar. The lecture will explore unchartered territory regarding Amala Shankar’s pedagogical contribution to dance teaching and innovation in Indian modern dance
 
Video recording of a talk for IIC online programmes

ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE

ARCHAEOLOGY AND HERITAGE
 
The Qutab Minar Complex – Evolution of Indian Architecture (38 min)
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Swapna Liddle, historian, Convener, Delhi Chapter of INTACH. She is the author of Delhi: 14 Historic Walks and Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi.
 
Video recording of a talk for IIC online programmes
 

FOCUS JAPAN

FOCUS JAPAN
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 
 
Searching for the Standing Boy of Nagasaki
(50 min; 2020; English)
A young boy carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother, in the devastated city of Nagasaki after the atomic bomb explosion. An American military photographer, Joe O’Donnell, took a picture of him standing stoically near the cremation pit. This film follows the fate of thousands of “atomic-bomb orphans” and their struggles to survive the aftermath of World War II
 

Making India Great Again: Learning from our History

Book Discussion Group

 

Making India Great Again: Learning from our History

India International Centre is organizing a Webinar on Monday 05 October, 2020  from 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm on

Chairman:
Amb : K. P. Fabian, Former Diplomat & Foreign Policy Analyst (Chair)
 
Panelists: 
 
Shri Ravi Budhiraja, IAS (Retd.), Former Chairman at Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority
Dr. Saugata Bhattacharya, Chief Economist, Axis Bank
Shri Robin Banerjee, Managing Director, Caprihans India Ltd.
Mrs. Meeta Rajivlochan, IAS, Member Secretary, National Commission for
Women and formerly Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Mumbai & Author of the book
Prof. M. Rajivlochan, Professor of History at Panjab University, Chandigarh & Author of the book
 


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Digital launch of The Brass Notebook: A Memoir

Digital launch of
The Brass Notebook: A Memoir
By Devaki Jain (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books, 2020)
 
The author will be in conversation with Dr. Romila Thapar, Emerita Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Ms Antara Dev Sen, literary critic, writer and founder editor, The Little Magazine
 
Moderator: Ms Kalpana Sharma, journalist, columnist and author
 
In this no-holds-barred memoir, renowned feminist economist and academician, Devaki Jain recounts her own story and also that of an entire generation and a nation coming into its own
 
(Collaboration: Speaking Tiger Books) 

 
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On the Occasion of Gandhi Jayanti- Recitation of Poems

On the Occasion of Gandhi Jayanti

 

Recitation of Poems (2:45 min)

By Meera Bhatia at IIC

 

Meera will recite poems composed by the renowned Urdu poet, Krishan Mohan, recipient of the All India Hindi Urdu Sangam Award and member of the Urdu Academy, Delhi. He is credited with 27 books on Urdu poetry and 4 books in Hindi

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