Indian Deities Worshipped in Japan

Talk by Shri Benoy K. Behl

 

Film: Indian Deities Worshipped in Japan (52 min; 2015; English)

Directed by Benoy K. Behl

Produced by Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India

 

Mouthpiece (Canada)

(91 min; 2018; dvd; English)

Director: Patricia Rozema

 

Recipient of the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Editing in Feature Film, Canadian Cinema Editors Awards 2019; DGC Craft Award for Outstanding Achievement in Picture Editing – Feature Film, Directors Guild of Canada 2019; and Lost Weekend Awards for Best Story, Avant Robot Award, Best Actress, Best Director & Best Film, Film Club’s The Lost Weekend 2019

 

A young writer, Cassandra, struggles to write a eulogy for her late mother, Elaine, who gave up her career to raise her children. A powerful depiction of the mother-daughter relationship. Dark, funny, compelling and the perfect balance of heartbreak and humour

 

(Collaboration: Canadian High Commission)

 

Agriculture in Media – What is rural India Telling Us?
 

Speaker: Smt Manisha Gupta, Editor-Commodities & Currencies, CNBC TV18

 

 India-Nepal Relations
 

The discussion will focus specifically on the 1950 Friendship Treaty as well as the Kalapani dispute

 

Panelists: Ambassador Ranjit Rae, former Indian Ambassador to Nepal;  Dr. Nihar R. Nayak, Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses;  and Akanshya Shah, Correspondent Nepali Times

Chair: Gen. Ashok Mehta

 

 

Lord of the Orphans (150 min; 2019; dvd; English)
 

Director: Ranjan Palit who will introduce the film

 

Lord of the Orphans is the story of a family (The Palit Family) reeling under a hundred year old curse. It is a unique biopic, a sort of auto-biopic, where filmmaker Ranjan Palit turns the lens on himself and his family

 

THE IIC DOUBLE BILL MUSIC CONCERT

 

AT  6:00pm

Sarod Recital

By  Abhik Sarkar from Delhi, disciple of  Ustad Amjad Ali Khan  

 

AT  7:00pm

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Mandakini Swain from Delhi, disciple of Vidushi Veena Sahashrabuddhe, Pt. Madhup Mudgal  and Dr. Vikas Kashalkar