Recasting Selves (English, Malayalam)

(80 min; 2019; dvd; English subtitles)

Direction, Script & Editing: Lalit Vachani who will introduce the film

An ICAS:MP and CeMIS (Centre for Modern Indian Studies) production

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film foregrounds the fraught issues in the education sector facing the traditionally disadvantaged peoples of Kerala - Adivasis and Dalits. Set at Crest (the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation) in Kozhikode, Kerala – the film documents the ‘soft skills’ training of Dalit and Adivasi post-graduate students in a sensitive and nurturing campus environment as preparation for their employment in the new Indian economy.

 

Fifth Edition of State of the Indian Economy

Speakers: Prof Partha Sen, ECGC Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and former Director, Delhi School of Economics; Prof Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof R. Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; and Prof Vikas Rawal, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

ART MATTERS

 

Gandhi and Art of Social Change

Speakers: Prof. Akeel Bilgrami and Dr. Abhay Bang

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

The Running of Indian Schools in the Gulf: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Ms Ambika Gulati, Principal, The Millennium School, Dubai

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

THE APU TRILOGY

 

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu/Bengali)

(107 min; 1959; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty

 

Recipient of the Sutherland Trophy, British Film Institute Awards, 1959; National Film Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, 1959; and NBR Awards for Best Foreign Film & Top Foreign Films, National Board of Reviews, USA 1960

 

Based on the last two-thirds of the 1932 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the trials and tribulations in Apu’s adult world  

 

THE APU TRILOGY

 

Aparajito (The Unvanquished/Bengali)

(113 min; 1956; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sen Gupta

 

Recipient of the FIPRESCIPrize & Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1957; Golden Gate Award for Best Director, San Francisco International Film Festival 1958; and NBR Award for Top Foreign Film, National Board of Review, USA 1959

 

The film chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college, the death of his mother, and his journey into the real world

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Christmas Through the Ages

Illustrated lecture with live demonstration by Marilyn Thomas, Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

A session on the biblical perspective of Christmas traced through the history of music up to the present times demonstrated with playback and a few live performances 

 

GANDHI MATTERS

 

Artfully Walking with Gandhi

By Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History and International Comparative Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

Visible – Invisible

An exhibition of prints – lithography, etching, aquatint, dry point, sugar lift etching and others

By Sangeeta Pathak from Delhi

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 18:30