From Rabab to Nagara: Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak

An exhibition of translights depicting the development of Sikhism from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh with rare paintings and photographs from different repositories in India and abroad. On display are the first photographs of the Golden Temple taken by William Baker and also those by Lala Deen Dayal, Raghu Rai, Ashok Dilwali, Sondeep Shankar and others. Images of works of eminent artists such as William Simpson, William Carpenter, Sobha Singh, Kirpal Singh, Arpana Caur, Sidharth, and others

 

Inauguration by Sir Mark Tully on Friday, 4 October 2019 at 17:30

 

Following the inauguration, there will be a lecture in the Art Gallery on

The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Mohinder Singh, Professor-Director, National Institute of Panjab Studies

 

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

 

(Collaboration: National Institute of Panjab Studies)

 

Followed by presentations

 

Speakers will include Tarini and Dheeraj, Praxis; Prof. Jagdeep Chhoker; Prof. Ram Khana; Dr. Vandana Prasad; Mr. Henri Tiphagne; and others

 

(Collaboration: Business & Community Foundation; and Praxis)

 

Faces from Home

An exhibition of portraits of women by Careen J. Langsteih from Shillong, Meghalaya

 

Bearing Witness

Cyanotype photographic prints by Conrad Syiem from Shillong, Meghalaya 

 

Remembering Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi

 

Remarks by Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS

 

 

 

Speakers: Dr. V. Siddhartha, former Emeritus Scientist, DRDO; Dr. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor & Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University; Ms Seema Mustafa, Editor, The Citizen; Dr. Dinesh Abrol, Professor, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development; and Dr. Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

(Collaboration: RIS)

THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 

11 TO 15 OCTOBER 2019

 

Members are requested to kindly please make a note of the dates for the festival. The festival presents performances, exhibitions, film screenings and cuisine. A separate festival programme card with details of the programmes will be posted separately and announced on the website

 

BHOOMI  2019

“Be a Heart Hero…make a promise”

 

 

 

At 14:00

 

Screening of films on Diet, Smoking and Exercise, BP and BMI Check

 

 

 

At 15:30

 

Scientific Session

 

Chair: Dr. S. Padmavati, President, All India Heart Foundation; and Dr. M. Khalilullah

 

 

 

Heart Attack – Early Intervention is the Key – Speaker: Dr. (Brig.) Y.K. Arora

 

Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases – Speaker: Dr. (Prof.) S. Dwivedi

 

Hypertension – Speaker: Dr. A.P. Arora

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr. A.S. Dave; Dr. Saroj Prakash; Dr. S. Dwivedi; Dr. A.P. Arora; Dr. Y.K. Arora; and Dr. Anita Khalil

 

 

 

(Collaboration: All India Heart Foundation)

FILMS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Water Every Drop Counts (26 min; dvd; English) 

A short film on the world's most precious resource - water. With demand for water likely to double in the next two decades, it is the top priority of countries all round the world to conserve it. And yet in the name of development, countries around the world are fast depleting their water resources… 

 

The Hard Edge (30 min; dvd; English)  

The film focusses on the efforts of Southern African nations to preserve the Zambezi river system comprising of lagoons, lakes, wetlands and wildlife preserves. It focuses on the joint action plan of the Southern African nations sharing the Zambezi river to reconcile the needs of wildlife and people

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

A Dialogue of Rivers

 

 

 

River Dialogues

 

In conversation - Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University; Krupa Ge, author of Rivers Remember, editor & columnist; Minket Lepcha, award-wining filmmaker & director of Voices of Teesta; and Sarandha Jain author of In Search of Yamuna: Reflections on River Lost

 

 

 

A new series of talks and dialogues that hopes to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The series hopes to flow like tributaries into all other rivers like the Brahmaputra, Ganges, Narmada, Indus, Yamuna, Teesta, Gomti, Periyar, Krishna, Godavari, Sabarmati etc. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions. On opening of streams of thought and conversations for a future with exciting possibilities

 

 

 

First in a new series of quarterly river conversations conceptualised by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Journalism and Vice Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat