Violent Emotions and the Violence of Life: Some Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Violence

Speaker: Avner Bergstein, Faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society with over 30 international publications

 

Introduction: Nilofer Kaul

Chair: Mallika Akbar

 

The encounter with life and with all that is entailed in the contact with other human beings, creates an emotional turbulence. The complexity of psychic reality, saturated with contradictions, paradoxes, uncertainties and doubts subverts psychic equilibrium, threatening the personality with overwhelming turmoil. Violence seems to be an outcome of a quality of excitation that the individual cannot elaborate mentally. Psychoanalytic work aims at facilitating growth of the mind, so as to allow the personality to bear the psychic pain entailed in the encounter with reality and so mitigate the violent discharge of emotional excess through action

 

(Collaboration: Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Delhi Chapter)

 

Click! Japan Photo Contest 2018
 

An annual photography competition, this exhibition presents a selection of outstanding entries as well as the 10 winners. The photographs depict myriad facets of Japan, from the scenery to traditional culture and advances in technology. Photographs by Amit K. Srivastava; Gauri Talwar; Puneet K. Singh; K. Bidyarani Devi; Puneet Sihag; Deepak Gandotra; Rekha Jain; Anil K. Sharma; Mithilesh K. Singh; and Shelly Airan

 

Inauguration on Thursday, 6 December 2018 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan; and Japan Foundation, New Delhi with the support of Canon India; and Japan National Tourism Organisation, Delhi Office)

 

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

 

Smog Wars (Poland/57 min/2018/English) – director: Jonathan L. Ramsey

PM 2.5(Poland/6min/2017/English) – director: Piotr Biedron

Work of Fire (India/53 min/2017/English) – director: K.R. Manoj

Sanctuaries: A New Life (USA/9 min/2018/English) – director: Paula Castro

Ashes of the Power Land – A story of the impact of fly ash in Korba (India/17 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Makarand Purohit

 

From 14:00 to 16:45

Gyamo – Queen of the Mountains (India/42 min/2018/English) – directors: Doel Trivedy & Gautam Pandey

India’s Healing Forests(India/51 min/2018/English) – director: Nitin Das

Dirty Water (Spain/3 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Dalissa de Oca

Mangroves: Nature’s Hardy Foot Soldiers (India/25 min/2017/English) – director: Sajeed Naduthody

Irada (India/110 min/2017/English subtitles) – director: Aparna Singh

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

Cultural Programme

 

From 10:45 to 13:30

Birds of the Lakes Return (Slovenia/54 min/2018/English) – director: Matej Vrani?

Terraform (Netherlands/5 min/2017/English) – directors: Sil Van Der Woerd& Jorik Dozyl

“The Bitter Truth” – Dal Lake Losing the Battle between Locals and Authorities(India/28 min/2016/English) – director: Abdul Rashid Bhat

The Word’s Most Famous Tiger (India/44 min/2017/English) – director: Subbiah Nallamuthu

 

From 14:00 to 17:30

The Call of Pashmina (India/15 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Taira Malaney

The Woods are Calling (India/26 min/2017/English) – director: Teenaa Kaur

Living Toxic: Russia (Russia/53 min/2014/English) – director: L. Trovellesi Cesana

The Naga Pride (India/28 min/2018/English) – director: Sumanth Kuduvalli

Polana (Slovakia/29 min/2016/English) – directors: Ivan Krsiak & Lubomir Viluda

Niger-Water (5 min/2016/English) – director: Marco Romano

 

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

Cultural Programme

 

From 10:45 to 13:30

Birds of the Lakes Return (Slovenia/54 min/2018/English) – director: Matej Vrani?

Terraform (Netherlands/5 min/2017/English) – directors: Sil Van Der Woerd& Jorik Dozyl

“The Bitter Truth” – Dal Lake Losing the Battle between Locals and Authorities(India/28 min/2016/English) – director: Abdul Rashid Bhat

The Word’s Most Famous Tiger (India/44 min/2017/English) – director: Subbiah Nallamuthu

 

From 14:00 to 17:30

The Call of Pashmina (India/15 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Taira Malaney

The Woods are Calling (India/26 min/2017/English) – director: Teenaa Kaur

Living Toxic: Russia (Russia/53 min/2014/English) – director: L. Trovellesi Cesana

The Naga Pride (India/28 min/2018/English) – director: Sumanth Kuduvalli

Polana (Slovakia/29 min/2016/English) – directors: Ivan Krsiak & Lubomir Viluda

Niger-Water (5 min/2016/English) – director: Marco Romano

 

6th to 8th December 2018

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

The eighth biennial edition of the Environmental Film Festival organized in collaboration with Toxics Link; and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. Curated around five broad themes Biodiversity, Sustainability, Climate Change, Water and Chemicals, the festival presents 28 long and short Indian and international documentaries that focus on different issues, regions and struggles to give audiences a better opportunity to understand and engage with environmental issues. Directors of some of the films will be present to introduce their films and lead a discussion after

 

10:00 to 11:30 

Inauguration 

By Shri Jairam Ramesh, MP and former Union Minister 

 

From 12:00 to 13:30

The Pangti Story (India/26 min/2016/English) – director: Sesino Yhoshu

Little Residents of the Big City (Turkey/49 min/2017/English subtitles) – director: Cihan Cekic

 

From 14:00 to 18:00

Global Warning – Kashmir Chapter (India/31 min/2017/English) – director: Jalal Ud Din Baba

The Can (Russia/02:31 min/2016/English) – director: Alexey Protsenko

Warning: Do we Really Clean? (Spain/93 min/2016/English subtitles) – director: Patric D. Cohen

The Birdman of Chorao (India/5 min/2017/English) – director: Shashank Bhosale

Modified (87 min/2017/English) – director: Aube Giroux

To celebrate Raimon Panikkar’s centenary and to mark the launch of the book Mysticism and Spirituality, first of the Collected Works of Raimon Panikkar, by Dr. Milena Carrara Pavan, President, International Cultural Centre Vivarium Panikkar, Tavertet, Spain; and Abhishek Jain, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, New Delhi

 

Symposium: Mysticism as a Universal Phenomenon

Speakers: Dr. Karan Singh; Professor Come Carpentier de Goudon; Dr. Mario Aguilar (Chile); Dr. Anand Amaladass; Dr. Kala Acharia; Dr. Paulo Barone (Italy); Dr. Daniel Monodeep; Dr. Ashis Nandy; and Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

 

Followed by an Audio-visual interview of Raimon Panikkar (2007) - Introduced by Milena Carrara Pavan

 

(Collaboration: Fundacio Vivarium Raimon Panikkar, Tavertet, Spain)

 

Limits of Consumption: Degradation of Environment and Ancient Wisdom

By Gauri Shankar Gupta (Hartford, U.K: Hanib Pub. 2018)

 

Discussants: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC; former Chair, National Security Advisory Board; and former Foreign Secretary; and Professor  Come Carpentier de Gourdon, Convener of the Editorial Board of the World Affair Journal; and Prof. (Dr.) Madhu Khanna, Historian

 

Chair: Shri B.P. Singh, former Governor of Sikkim and Home Secretary, GOI

 

Fidel and the Foreign Policy of Cuban Revolution

An exhibition of photographs and texts organized as part of the celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Republic of Cuba)

 

Mussoorie, 1953 (Hindi/45 min)

Dramatic reading of a short story of K.A. Abbas

Direction & Design: Dr. Danish Iqbal

On stage: Sunita Chowhan

 

The short story is written in the form of letters between two college friends, Salma and Usha. Interestingly, Salma writes and Usha receives. Locating the story in Mussoorie where Salma is brought there by her doting parents to forget her infatuation with Ahmed, a lecturer, leftist, and poor. Two families, neighbours and best friends, Khans and Mathurs, play out a charade of love, loss, histrionics, hypocrisy in an India of the 1950s

 

(Collaboration: Khwaja Ahmed Abbas Memorial Trust)