Neeli Raag (True Blue)

(85 min; 2018; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Directed by Swati Dandekar who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Indigo is not just a colour, it never was…it was wealth, it was mystique, it was colonialism, tyranny and protest. It made history, but itself fell prey to the events and processes of time, until one day it seemed to disappear. As the world begins to demand natural dyes once again, it is back in the spotlight. Traversing the verdant monsoon of Tamil Nadu, the earthy expanse of springtime Telangana, and the wintry desert of Kachch, Neeli Raag  is an attempt to tell the story of indigo as it is practiced today

 

FILMS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

The Pangti Story (26 min; 2016; dvd; English)

Director: Sesino Yhoshu

 

Recipient of Silver Lotus Award for Best Environment Film (non-feature film), 65th National Film Awards 2018; and Golden Beaver Award, 7thNational Science Film Festival 2017

 

The film explores the transition of an entire village from one that slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Amur Falcons, to becoming their most fervent preservationists. The Amur Falcons are the longest travelling raptors in the world, who fly from Siberia every fall to roost in Pangti, a small village in Nagaland

 

Saving the Wild- Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (25 min; 2016; dvd; English)

Director: Rita Banerji

 

Recipient of the Silver Beaver & Best Editing Award, National Science Film Festival, Kolkata; and Best Film – Forest and Wildlife, Woodpecker International Film Festival and Forum, New Delhu

 

In one of the prime wildlife habitats of India, Kaziranga Assam, The Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation has been rescuing animals for the last 12 years. Many of these juvenile animals are successfully hand-raised and rehabilitated back in the wild, while rescued adults are treated and released as soon as possible

 

Films courtesy: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

THURSDAY 23

 

POETRY ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

Monsoon and Other Poems

Discussion and readings on the new volume of poems by Rachna Joshi with illustrations by Premola Ghose

Speakers: Ms Mandira Ghosh; and Dr. H.K. Kaul

Readings by Rachna Joshi

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

VERY ALIVE MINDS

West meets East through Culture and Music

 

Alain Daniélou – Into the Labyrinth (78 min; 2017; dvd; English)

Director: Riccadro Biadene

 

The extraordinary life of the man who brought India to the West.A musical journey starting from Brittany, passing through India (Shantiniketan, Varanasi, Pondicherry…) and Europe, following the story of the French-born Indologist and musicologist A.Daniélou. In Banaras Daniélou and his life partner, the Swiss photographer Raymond Burnier made for 15 years their home in Rewa palace, on the banks of the Ganga. Here Daniélou became a Sanskrit scholar, converted to Hinduism, studied Indian classical music and wrote books about Hindu philosophy

 

VERY ALIVE MINDS

West meets East through Culture and Music

 

Alain Daniélou – Into the Labyrinth (78 min; 2017; dvd; English)

Director: Riccadro Biadene

 

The extraordinary life of the man who brought India to the West.A musical journey

VERY ALIVE MINDS: 23 & 24 JANUARY 2020

West meets East through Culture and Music

 

Songs of Love and Destiny

Transcription for voice and piano of select works of Rabindranath Tagore by Alain Daniélou

Presented by Francesca Cassio (voice) and Gloria Campaner (piano)

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

IIC Annual Day 2020

 

Haveli Sangeet

Presented by Pt. Chandra Prakash from Ajmer, well-known exponent of Haveli sangeet

From Pain to Paint

An exhibition of paintings from the Bindu Art School founded by Werner Dornik, Austrian artist and Padma Venkataraman. Bindu Art School uses art to change the lives of people affected by leprosy

 

Inauguration by H.E. Ms Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofer, Ambassador of Austria on Tuesday, 21st January 2020 at 18:30

Guest of Honour: Anjolie Ela Menon and Suresh Jindal

MAPPING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

 

Limits of Direct Income Support – The Case of Tenant Farmers

Illustrated lecture by Shri Kiran Kumar Vissa, social activist working at the grassroots level to resolve the issues faced by Indian farmers; his dedicated work over the years in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has resulted in significantly improving the livelihoods of farmers in the region

 

Chair: Dr. Siraj Hussain, Visiting Senior Fellow, ICRIER