ART MATTERS

 

New Museums 

Speakers: O. P. Jain; Ashvin Rajgopalan; Yusuf and Rajan Sehgal

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

An Evening of Siraiki Sufi Poetry

Dr. J. C. Batra will introduce his new book of Sufi Saint Khawaja Ghulam Farid and his Multani Sufi Kafees

 

Readings and recitations of Siraiki Sufi poems of India & Pakistan by Dr. Rana Pratap Singh Rana; and Prof. Harish Chander Batra

 

Chair: Dr. J.C. Batra, President, Siraiki Sahitya Sangam, New Delhi
 

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India; and Siraiki Sahitya Sangam)

 

Artists from Afghanistan 

An exhibition of delicate art work made of Kunes fabric by Mohammad Akbar Farhad; and art pieces made of straw by Voman Niazi

 

Inauguration by H.E. Mohammad Khairullah Azad, Chargé d’affaires, Embassy of Afghanistan and Air Marshal (retd.) Naresh Verma, Director, IIC on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 18:00

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)

 

THE ENGINEER AND SOCIETY

 

Management of Air Pollution & Solid Waste in Indian Cities

Presentations by: Ms Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science & Environment; Dr. Suneel Pandey, Senior Fellow & Director Environment and Waste Management, TERI

 

Chair: Prof. Manju Mohan, Head, Center of Atmospheric Sciences, I.I.T Delhi

 

(Collaboration: Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI))

 

The Future of Work
 

Speaker: Dr. A. Didar Singh, former Secretary to Govt. of India and Ex Secretary General, FICCI and presently Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group

Chair: Ms Dagmar Walter, Director, International Labour Organisation

Violent Emotions and the Violence of Life: Some Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Violence

Speaker: Avner Bergstein, Faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society with over 30 international publications

 

Introduction: Nilofer Kaul

Chair: Mallika Akbar

 

The encounter with life and with all that is entailed in the contact with other human beings, creates an emotional turbulence. The complexity of psychic reality, saturated with contradictions, paradoxes, uncertainties and doubts subverts psychic equilibrium, threatening the personality with overwhelming turmoil. Violence seems to be an outcome of a quality of excitation that the individual cannot elaborate mentally. Psychoanalytic work aims at facilitating growth of the mind, so as to allow the personality to bear the psychic pain entailed in the encounter with reality and so mitigate the violent discharge of emotional excess through action

 

(Collaboration: Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Delhi Chapter)

 

Click! Japan Photo Contest 2018
 

An annual photography competition, this exhibition presents a selection of outstanding entries as well as the 10 winners. The photographs depict myriad facets of Japan, from the scenery to traditional culture and advances in technology. Photographs by Amit K. Srivastava; Gauri Talwar; Puneet K. Singh; K. Bidyarani Devi; Puneet Sihag; Deepak Gandotra; Rekha Jain; Anil K. Sharma; Mithilesh K. Singh; and Shelly Airan

 

Inauguration on Thursday, 6 December 2018 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan; and Japan Foundation, New Delhi with the support of Canon India; and Japan National Tourism Organisation, Delhi Office)

 

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

 

Smog Wars (Poland/57 min/2018/English) – director: Jonathan L. Ramsey

PM 2.5(Poland/6min/2017/English) – director: Piotr Biedron

Work of Fire (India/53 min/2017/English) – director: K.R. Manoj

Sanctuaries: A New Life (USA/9 min/2018/English) – director: Paula Castro

Ashes of the Power Land – A story of the impact of fly ash in Korba (India/17 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Makarand Purohit

 

From 14:00 to 16:45

Gyamo – Queen of the Mountains (India/42 min/2018/English) – directors: Doel Trivedy & Gautam Pandey

India’s Healing Forests(India/51 min/2018/English) – director: Nitin Das

Dirty Water (Spain/3 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Dalissa de Oca

Mangroves: Nature’s Hardy Foot Soldiers (India/25 min/2017/English) – director: Sajeed Naduthody

Irada (India/110 min/2017/English subtitles) – director: Aparna Singh

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

Cultural Programme

 

From 10:45 to 13:30

Birds of the Lakes Return (Slovenia/54 min/2018/English) – director: Matej Vrani?

Terraform (Netherlands/5 min/2017/English) – directors: Sil Van Der Woerd& Jorik Dozyl

“The Bitter Truth” – Dal Lake Losing the Battle between Locals and Authorities(India/28 min/2016/English) – director: Abdul Rashid Bhat

The Word’s Most Famous Tiger (India/44 min/2017/English) – director: Subbiah Nallamuthu

 

From 14:00 to 17:30

The Call of Pashmina (India/15 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Taira Malaney

The Woods are Calling (India/26 min/2017/English) – director: Teenaa Kaur

Living Toxic: Russia (Russia/53 min/2014/English) – director: L. Trovellesi Cesana

The Naga Pride (India/28 min/2018/English) – director: Sumanth Kuduvalli

Polana (Slovakia/29 min/2016/English) – directors: Ivan Krsiak & Lubomir Viluda

Niger-Water (5 min/2016/English) – director: Marco Romano

 

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

Cultural Programme

 

From 10:45 to 13:30

Birds of the Lakes Return (Slovenia/54 min/2018/English) – director: Matej Vrani?

Terraform (Netherlands/5 min/2017/English) – directors: Sil Van Der Woerd& Jorik Dozyl

“The Bitter Truth” – Dal Lake Losing the Battle between Locals and Authorities(India/28 min/2016/English) – director: Abdul Rashid Bhat

The Word’s Most Famous Tiger (India/44 min/2017/English) – director: Subbiah Nallamuthu

 

From 14:00 to 17:30

The Call of Pashmina (India/15 min/2018/English subtitles) – director: Taira Malaney

The Woods are Calling (India/26 min/2017/English) – director: Teenaa Kaur

Living Toxic: Russia (Russia/53 min/2014/English) – director: L. Trovellesi Cesana

The Naga Pride (India/28 min/2018/English) – director: Sumanth Kuduvalli

Polana (Slovakia/29 min/2016/English) – directors: Ivan Krsiak & Lubomir Viluda

Niger-Water (5 min/2016/English) – director: Marco Romano