A conversation with Bhanwri Devi on her life and struggle

Kavita Srivastava, President, PUCL Rajasthan in conversation with Bhanwri Devi

Introduction: Dr. Amita V. Joseph, BCF

It was Bhanwri Devi’s act of courage that resulted in the Supreme Court formulating the guidelines to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace, the Vishakha guidelines, POSH Act etc.

The webinar will be conducted in Hindi and Marwari

(Collaboration: Business & Community Foundation)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (USA) | (116 min; 1954; English)

Director: Richard Brooks

With Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon

Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story Babylon Revisited, the film is an engrossing romantic drama. An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief…

Never Forget to Lie | (53 min; 2013; English and with subtitles)

Director: Marion Marzynski

In the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films, Marian Marzynski explores, for the first time, his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors, teasing out their feelings about Poland, the Catholic Church, and the ramifications of identities forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive “never forget to lie.”

Coding Art: When Artificial Intelligence Writes, Paints and Sings | (42 min; 2020; English)

Director: Angelika Kelhammer

A DW Film Doc will computers someday be as creative as artists? Humans have long believed that only they can express themselves through art -- but will they be forced out of this process? This documentary examines whether AI will one day be able to create art

City of Ravenna (49 min)

A virtual tour of the city conducted by Caterina Brazzi Castracane, historian, author and tour guide

The last capital of the Roman Empire in the West, the city of Ravenna located in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy is famous for its early Christian and Byzantine mosaics. The tomb of Dante Alighieri, considered the father of Italian language and one of the most important poets in world literature, is also located in this city where he died in 1321

An initiative of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi and Bell’Italia 88

Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi

Bonsai: Nature in a Pot (25 min; 2020; English)

The living art of Bonsai is derived from an ancient Chinese horticultural practice, part of which was then redeveloped under the influence of Japanese Zen Buddhism. The word “Bon-sai” (often misspelled as bonzai or banzai) is a Japanese term which, literally translated, means “planted in a container”. What is behind the art of cultivating trees into aesthetically pleasing shapes in containers rather than allowing nature to take its course?  The film explores the essence of the Japanese spirit as reflected in the art of bonsai

Day & Date:  Saturday & Sunday, 30th and 31st January 2021

Member’s Lunch:  “ASSAMESE BHOJ”

An Assamese Bhoj
Prepared by Chef Utpala Mukherjee
 
The Assamese Bhog or feast includes not just mainstream Assamese cuisine, but also the diverse cuisine and cooking styles of the various tribal communities of the Brahmaputra Valley.

A typical Assamese meal will always include a khar dish – khar is a special decoction made by filtering water through banana ash and used as the key ingredient in a dish. The khar cleanses the stomach and is alkaline in nature. The other definitive dish is a tenga - a sour dish. The sourness from the tenga carefully balances the alkaline khar.  A lemon wedge, green chilli and a ball of mustard based Kharoli are served to add extra seasoning.

Designed with an eye to healthy eating, a number of the dishes are, roasted, steamed, or smoked. Different medicinal herbs are used in the cooking such as mezenga (Szechuan pepper leaves), manimuni (pennywort leaves), and mosunduri (bishop’s weed). Oil is used minimally, and spices are hardly used. Even the deadly Bhuut Jolakia (Ghost Chilly) is mostly used in its raw form.

Kanthu is one of the methods of preparing a Karbi dish. Meat, fish, vegetables and seasoning ingredients including sesame seed powder are mixed with lopong leaves are wrapped in banana leaves and cooked directly on hot charcoals. IIC is serving the “Assamese Bhoj” for its members from 29^th January (Friday) to 31^st January 2021 (Sunday) (03 days) for IIC Members along with the special bakery items. These items shall be served in addition to the regular menu in the Dining Hall and Lounge and also can be booked on prior demand as “Take Away” items.

Take away services with prior booking will be available from 1030 hrs to 2100 hrs.

Kindly Place order at: 011-24609359, 24609373, 24609374, 24609375, 24609472

The last order for “ASSAMESE BHOJ” can be placed at:  Dining Hall – up to 2100 hrs/    Lounge- up to 2000 hrs
     

Kanwal Wali
Secretary

An exhibition of paintings by Daniela Reis from Portugal based on the artist’s own exploration, reflection and experience of the ‘feminine’. The artist works with oil on canvas, oil on paper, enamel and digital painting

The online exhibition is on view 1st to 14th February 2021

( Collaboration: Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre )

Artist statement

The exhibition presents works that are part of a wider artistic production and thinking in the artist’s own exploration based on the reflection and experience of the “feminine”. In the search for it, for the difference and the alternate in what is a common territory of stereotypes and domination relationships. A provisional territory, constantly updated.

As the title suggests, I am also interested in exploring a side of the experience that goes beyond the immediate relationship with objects, physicality and the flesh itself.

    Not the whole body is flesh:
    it is also water, earth, wind, fire…* 

In general, I work in a series of paintings that are related through a thematic or at a more formal level like colour or construction of space. Each set of works always arises from a curiosity and ends when another interest becomes more pressing.

My material of choice is oil on canvas or on paper, yet I work on enamel and digital painting. I paint several pieces simultaneously. I plan my studio work little because my pace is guided by curiosity, urgency and pleasure. My paintings is strongly influenced by what I read and my personal experiences.

-    Daniela Reis

BIO

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Daniela Reis is the official painter of the former and the current president of the Portuguese Red Cross, Dr. Francisco George and Dr. Luís Barbosa whose portraits are in permanent exhibition in the Museum of the Portuguese Red Cross in Lisbon.
Daniela made an itinerant exhibition in several marrocain cities with the support of the Portuguese Embassy in Marrocos.
Currently Daniela teaches private and public Art classes ( art history, painting, drawing); She is engaged with personal projects and commissioned works in her studio.

Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Lisbonʼs Faculty of Fine Arts; University Degree in Painting, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts;
Post-Graduation in Leadership Training and Team Development in ISPA (Institute of Applied Psychology)
Pedagogic training in Gulbenkian Foundation with Eurico Gonçalves.

Complementary artistic training:
Artistic Development Program with Marta Wengorovius;
Painting development course, Painting Society of Fine Arts of Lisbon, Workshop in glass techniques, Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon,
Plastic Expression development course, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Space and Creativity course, by Helena Carqueijeiro, Gulbenkian Foundation.
 
EXHIBITIONS
Individual Exhibitions (selection)
2017 | ”Cocoon”, Casablanca, Essaouira, El Jadida, Marrocos 2017 | “A sombra domesticada”, Galeria Acervo, Lisboa
2013 | Centro de Artes de Sines, Sines 2013 | Hotel Londres, Estoril
2013 | Hotel Golf Mar, Porto Novo
2011 | “A Eternidade e Um Dia” – Biblioteca Orlando Ribeiro, Lisboa 2003 | Ministério das Finanças (SOFE)
2002 | “E agora? Agora ainda não” – Associação Guilherme Cossoul, Lisboa 2001 |“Poeira de Estrelas” Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul, Lisboa

Collective exhibitions (selection)
2016 | “In good hands” – ISEG – Galeria Acervo, Lisboa 2016 | “30×30” – Galeria Acervo, Lisboa
2016 | “Não sei quantas almas tenho” – Galeria Acervo, Lisboa
2013 | “Caixa para Musicar Sonhos” – Exposição colectiva “100 Pontos à Vista” no espaço público, Carnide, Lisboa
2013 | Intervenção Mural Colectiva – com a Galeria Nómada inserido no projecto NAVE, Carnide, Lisboa
2006 | Projecto “A mulher Verde Mãe” – Veiros, Estremoz 2004 | Ministério das Finanças
2001 | Teatro Taborda, associada à peça “MAR ME QUER” de Mia Couto pelo Teatro Meridional, Lisboa
1999 | Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul, Lisboa 1998 | Casa-Museu Mestre João da Silva, Lisboa
1997 | Azambuja

Publications
2015 | Le Monde Diplomatique, Nº 109
2014 | 70 Cavaquinhos 70 Artistas, Associação Cultural Museu do Cavaquinho 2013 | “DELÍRIO – Para Além Das Fronteiras do Tempo e do Espaço (Manifesto Précaliptico)” de Pedro Virgílio Cunha
 

Panelists: Shri Ajay Shankar IAS (retd.), former Secretary, Govt. of India; Prof. Sushil Khanna,  Professor of Economics and Strategic Management, IIM, Kolkata; and Shri Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation

Moderator: Prof. Dinesh Kumar Abrol, TRCSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Shri M.G. Devasahayam, IAS (retd.), Chairman, People-First

Built over decades with people’s money, India’s public sector is the repository of huge assets including land and minerals, vital infrastructure and huge productive forces. Public sector in India was an instrument to attain self-reliant economy and create the industrial base of the country. The discussion will focus on the impact and implications of dismantling the public sector from the perspectives of policy aspects; an assessment of the performance of public enterprises; impact on the economy and the common man, etc.