Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema
Director: Danny Ben – Moshe
Narrator: Ayesha Dharkar
Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. When Indian cinema began 100 years ago it was taboo for Hindu and Islamic women to perform on screen, so Jewish women took on female lead roles, which they dominated for decades. The film focusses on the lives of five of the great Jewish actors. Infused with music and dancing, the cheekily told documentary unabashedly oozes Bollywood as it uses film motifs to drive the narrative
The film can be accessed for viewing on 11th June 2020 from 18:00 to until 12th midnight after which it will be closed
Here is the link https://vimeo.com/292075588
A Conversation with Danny Ben-Moshe
On 12th June 2020 at 11:30, Embassy of Israel will host a Zoom session with Danny Ben-Moshe, Director of Shalom Bollywood. Kindly please register your participation on https://forms.gle/DDc2wYSrJW2d5HAm9
Screening organised in collaboration with Embassy of Israel in India
Narrator: Ayesha Dharkar
Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. When Indian cinema began 100 years ago it was taboo for Hindu and Islamic women to perform on screen, so Jewish women took on female lead roles, which they dominated for decades. The film focusses on the lives of five of the great Jewish actors. Infused with music and dancing, the cheekily told documentary unabashedly oozes Bollywood as it uses film motifs to drive the narrative
The film can be accessed for viewing on 11th June 2020 from 18:00 to until 12th midnight after which it will be closed
Here is the link https://vimeo.com/292075588
A Conversation with Danny Ben-Moshe
On 12th June 2020 at 11:30, Embassy of Israel will host a Zoom session with Danny Ben-Moshe, Director of Shalom Bollywood. Kindly please register your participation on https://forms.gle/DDc2wYSrJW2d5HAm9
Screening organised in collaboration with Embassy of Israel in India
The Indian Modern and Nehru
The Nehruvian Modern Moment: A view of Delhi's Architecture and Design - 1947-1985
Speaker: Shri Ram Rahman, photographer
Chair: Shri Romi Khosla
Introduction: Shri Sohail Hashmi
Programme held on 29th August 2015
Carnatic Vocal Padams and Javalis of Smt T. Muktha
A tribute by Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy to mark the birth centenary of her Guru, Smt T. Muktha
Collaboration: Aalaap
Programme held on 3rd December 2014
Collaboration: Aalaap
Programme held on 3rd December 2014
A Short History of How Jazz Became an Indian Music
Presentation by Shri Naresh Fernandes, author of the book, The Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The story of Bombay's Jazz Age
Introduction: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri
From the accounts of most standard jazz histories, it took the genius of American saxophonist, John Coltrane to demonstrate in the 1960s how jazz could enrich itself by seeking inspiration in Hindustani classical music. But the reality is more complex. From the 1940s, a passionate group of Indian jazz musicians had been attempting to find an Indian way to play jazz, both in art music and in popular music. The presentation will use audio clips and photographs to trace the journey of jazz from New Orleans to New Delhi, exploring how an American transplant became a vibrant Indian hybrid in the fertile soil of the subcontinent
Talk held on 26 November 2014 as part of the exhibition Jazz in India on view from 26 to 30 November 2014
Introduction: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri
From the accounts of most standard jazz histories, it took the genius of American saxophonist, John Coltrane to demonstrate in the 1960s how jazz could enrich itself by seeking inspiration in Hindustani classical music. But the reality is more complex. From the 1940s, a passionate group of Indian jazz musicians had been attempting to find an Indian way to play jazz, both in art music and in popular music. The presentation will use audio clips and photographs to trace the journey of jazz from New Orleans to New Delhi, exploring how an American transplant became a vibrant Indian hybrid in the fertile soil of the subcontinent
Talk held on 26 November 2014 as part of the exhibition Jazz in India on view from 26 to 30 November 2014
A Hindu King in a Cosmopolitan World
Discussion around the new book RAYA - Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara
by Srinivas Reddy (New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2020)
Professor Srinivas Reddy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar in conversation with William Dalrymple, well-known author, and historian
Zoom recording of the IIC talk and conversation held on 27th May 2020
by Srinivas Reddy (New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2020)
Professor Srinivas Reddy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar in conversation with William Dalrymple, well-known author, and historian
Zoom recording of the IIC talk and conversation held on 27th May 2020
To Mark World Environment Day on 5th June 2020
Post Covid-19: Future of Biodiversity
Speakers: Prof. V.S. Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and Member Planning, Central Electricity Authority; and Dr. Malti Goel, President, Climate Change Research Institute and former Scientist ‘G’ and Emeritus Scientist, Ministry of Science & Technology
Corona virus crisis is reshaping our world. World Environment Day, which falls on 5th June, aims to create awareness about Biodiversity, as a theme of the year. This year the Environment Day campaign marks society’s unified and digital response to our environmental crisis. The Climate Change Research Institute in association with IIC presents a discourse on global pandemic Covid-19 on this World Environment Day, on how biodiversity and covid-19 are linked, the challenges we face and how we can safeguard it post covid-19
Speakers: Prof. V.S. Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and Member Planning, Central Electricity Authority; and Dr. Malti Goel, President, Climate Change Research Institute and former Scientist ‘G’ and Emeritus Scientist, Ministry of Science & Technology
Corona virus crisis is reshaping our world. World Environment Day, which falls on 5th June, aims to create awareness about Biodiversity, as a theme of the year. This year the Environment Day campaign marks society’s unified and digital response to our environmental crisis. The Climate Change Research Institute in association with IIC presents a discourse on global pandemic Covid-19 on this World Environment Day, on how biodiversity and covid-19 are linked, the challenges we face and how we can safeguard it post covid-19
Yadgar Wa Jashn i Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God
Speakers: Shri Shamim Hanafi; Dr. Rakshanda Jalil; Dr. Alok Sarin; and Ms. Urvashi Butalia
Chair: Prof. Shahid Amin
Followed by
The Dastaan of Manto
Presented by Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain
Programme presented on 11th May 2014
Soul of Japan - Shamisen and Nagauta
Concert presented by Baisho Matsumoto (shamisen) with Yoshimi Fujimoto (vocals), Akira Nishizaki (dance) and Kyoko Hibiki (drums), four Japanese masters in traditional dance, drums, folksong and the shamisen will present the versatile dance and music traditions of Japan
Collaboration: The Japan Foundation
Programme held on 14th February 2013
Unity and Diversity of India - A Genomic Reconstruction from Ancestral Footfalls
Speaker: Dr Partha P. Majumder, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics
Chair: Prof Samir K. Brahmachari, Secretary, Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, and Director General, CSIR
Programme held on 1st December 2012
Ustad Bismillah Khan -The Poetry of Shehnai
Illustrated lecture by Yatindra Mishra, writer, poet, critic and connoisseur of music
Chair: Smt. Sunanda Sharma
Programme held on 27th February 2013