Films of the Spirit

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Ghatashraddha, (Kannada)

(144 min; 1977; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Girish  Kasaravalli

 

Set in a rural orthodox Brahmin Karnataka village, Kasaravalli’s first feature film tells the story of a child widow through the eyes of a young boy. Yamuna a young widow stays in an agrahara with her father Udupa, who runs a Veda Pathshala. Nani, the new entrant to the school likes her. Yamuna befriends the village school teacher and becomes pregnant. Soon the villagers find out and terming it “immoral” they decide to outcast her by performing the Ghatashraddha ritual

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility; and National Film Archive, Pune)

 

 

Subliminal Bridges

Rtusamhara – a mentorship programme for poetry

 

Poetry recitations by Be Lagaam poets

Introduction: Anand Khatri

 

(Collaboration: Poesis Society for Poetry)

Fourth L.C. Jain Memorial Lecture 2020

 

Fighting for Freedoms: The Supreme Court in the 21st Century

Speaker: Justice Shri A.P. Shah

 

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar

 

(Collaboration: ADR; and LC Jain Family)

MONDAY 10

 

CONFERENCE ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX  AT 18:00

Inaugural session of 

International Conference on Understanding Africa: Continuity and Change

Introduction to the conference: Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan, Coordinator of the Conference, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and former Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria

 

Keynote Address: Ambassador Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yai, former President, UNESCO Executive Board

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)  

 

4TH IIC/OPEN HEALTH SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM

 

Biomedical Data Sciences – New Name with New Opportunities for Change?

Lead presentation by Prof. Philip E. Bourne, Stephenson Dean of the School of Data Science, Professor of Data Science & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

 

Discussants: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Architect of India’s initiative in supercomputing and Chancellor, Nalanda University, Bihar; Dr. B. Jayaram, Professor Emeritus, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems; and Dr. Jefferey Buchsbaum, Radiation Oncologist and Programme Director, Radiation Research Programme, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda

 

Chair: Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

 

Biomedicine, always at the forefront of open data aggregation and reuse, is now being influenced by other fields where the application of data science is rapidly expanding. What are other fields telling us and what do we, scientists, funders and governments need to do differently to instill a cultural change, which is never easy?

 

RIVER DIALOGUES

 

The River and I

Sumana Roy, writer and poet; and Parineeta Dandekar, writer and Associate Coordinator, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRIP) in conversation with Kishalay Bhattarcharjee, author and journalist

 

(Collaboration: New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat)

 

FRIDAY 7

 

PERFORMANCE  ?C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Pt Bholanath Mishra

Accompanied by Ustad Akhtar Hassan on table and Shri Zakir Dhaulpuri on harmonium 

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin  Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

 

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)

 

Seminar on Pathway to Women in Politics

Panellists: Smt Chitra Mudgal, Hindi writer; Dr Bijaylaxmi Nanda, Principal of Miranda House; Smt Kalpana Sharma, Additional Secretary, Lok Sabha and Ms Neerja Chowdhry, eminent journalist

 

Chief Guest: Dr Heena Vijay Kumar Gavit, Chairperson, Women Empowerment Committee

Awardee, Dayawati Modi Stree Shakti Samman

 

(Collaboration: Stree Shakti)

INTACH–IIC Children’s Film Festival Open Futures: Filmit India

Films made by school children from 42 schools in Delhi on the culture of Delhi

 

(Collaboration: INTACH)

 

Much Ado about Knotting (India)

(56 min; 2012; dvd; Hindi/English)

Directors: Geetika Narang, Anandana Kapur

 

Recipient of the award for Best Film, International Film Festival, Ferizaj, Kosono

 

Born into a society obsessed with marriage, a young girl, a not-so-young man and an NRI couple are compelled by tradition to look for matches via classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites. The film is a light-hearted chronicle of the marriage predicament