Curators: Dr. Shimon Lev, Yael Margalit

Artists: Revital Arbel, Andi Arnovitz, Siona Benjamin, Chanchal Banga, Tal Eliaz, Anchia Anzi, Tim Nachum Gidal, Maite Coloma, Shimon Lev, Liat Livni, Dorit Lombroso, Yael Margalit, Rajul Mehta, Motti Mizrachi, Reuma Moses, Hadas Parush, Doron Polak, Rachel Rotenberg, Eyal Segal, Maya Smira, Jean-Pierre Weill

The exhibition is an attempt to investigate how artists in a wide range of media use their work to represent hidden and revealed aspects of India and its culture. Most of the artists are Israeli, while some are descendants of the Jewish communities in India who live in Israel or the United States. Some of the artists are Israelis who travelled in India for a long time or short time while others live in India permanently. Another group of artists are Indians who live or have lived for long periods in Israel.

(Collaboration: Embassy of Israel)

CATALOGUE

ARTISTS BIO AND PHOTO

MOVIE

Poetry readings by Pawan Karan (Gwalior); Sushila Puri (Lucknow); Joshna Banerjee Aadvani (Agra); and Rajeev Kumar (Delhi)

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

The four poets will be reading their original poems

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation )

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Night Train to Munich (UK) | (90 min; 1940; b/w; English) | ( Click here to watch )

Director: Carol Reed

With Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid

Carol Reed’s Night Train to Munich is a twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, combining comedy, romance, and thrills with the greatest of ease. Paced like an out-of-control locomotive, Night Train takes viewers on a journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood), who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent, played by Rex Harrison. This captivating, long-overlooked adventure is a deftly concocted spy game that could give Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense a run for his money.

Director: David Wallace

A four-part BBC series, written and presented by Michael Wood

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Great’s amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.

Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexander’s journey as closely as possible, crossing deserts and rivers, from Turkey to war-torn Afghanistan. As the journey progresses, he recreates the drama of Alexanders epic marches and bloody battles. All along the way he finds proof of the survival of the legends surrounding Alexander, a leader whose life has excited the world’s imagination for the 2,000 years.

Episode III: Across the Hindu Kush (60 min) ( Click here to watch )

Following Alexander’s route Michael Wood treks over the Khawak pass in Afghanistan, crosses the Oxus river and follows the golden road to Samarkand. He continues to Alexandria the Farthermost – Khodzent in Takjikistan – retraces Alexander’s famous victory at the Sogdian rock, and visits the ruins of the ancient city of Balkh with the help of an Afghan war lord.

 (75 min; 2014; English) |

Director: Jody Lee Lipes

With Justin Peck, Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin

Cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Jody Lee Lipes crafts an intimate, fly-on-the-wall film offering a rare peek into the highly-guarded world of professional ballet. The film shadows Justin Peck, the 25-year old choreographer of the New York City Ballet, as he undertakes the Herculean task of creating the company's 422nd original piece while simultaneously fulfilling his role as a Corps de Ballet member.

   https://www.documentarymania.com/player.php?title=Ballet+422
 ( Click here to watch )

Illustrated lecture by Hormazd Sorabjee, Editor, Autocar India

Introduction: Kritika Mudgal

Hormazd Sorabjee, one of the most senior and much loved auto journalists in India, presents an illustrated lecture on the 10–day road journey that he took through Iran in 2019. The trip starts in Tehran and ending in Shiraz, through Kashan, Isfahan, Chams, Yazd, Pasargadae and Persepolis in between. 

Video recording of a Zoom talk presented by Parzor Foundation and Jiyo Parsi

(84 min; 2018; French with English subtitles)
Directors: Gorav Kalyan, Rohan Kalyan

Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is a biography of the philosopher. The life of Alain Badiou suggests that the reverse is also true. The first feature length film on France's most famous living philosopher.

Observing the increasing number of Members visiting the Centre during the weekends, it has been decided to open the Lotus Lounge for the Members on weekends (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) w.e.f. 03-07-2021. The social distancing norms, as applicable in the Main Lounge and Dining Hall shall also apply to the Lotus Lounge. 

The timings of operation will be 

12.00 hrs to 19 00 hrs. 
(Last order at 1830 hrs.) 

Kanwal Wali
Secretary IIC
 

Two Banks of a River – The Indus in Ladakh
Illustrated lecture by Isaac Tsetan Gergan, artist, photographer and Director, Art for Change Foundation, based in Leh and Delhi
 
Following the lecture, Isaac will be in conversation with Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Professor and Executive Dean, Director, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
 
A series of talks and dialogues that hope to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions and opening streams of thought for a future with exciting possibilities
 
(Collaboration: Living Waters Museum; and New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University)