6th to 8th December 2018

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: 6 TO 8 DECEMBER 2018

The eighth biennial edition of the Environmental Film Festival organized in collaboration with Toxics Link; and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. Curated around five broad themes Biodiversity, Sustainability, Climate Change, Water and Chemicals, the festival presents 28 long and short Indian and international documentaries that focus on different issues, regions and struggles to give audiences a better opportunity to understand and engage with environmental issues. Directors of some of the films will be present to introduce their films and lead a discussion after

 

10:00 to 11:30 

Inauguration 

By Shri Jairam Ramesh, MP and former Union Minister 

 

From 12:00 to 13:30

The Pangti Story (India/26 min/2016/English) – director: Sesino Yhoshu

Little Residents of the Big City (Turkey/49 min/2017/English subtitles) – director: Cihan Cekic

 

From 14:00 to 18:00

Global Warning – Kashmir Chapter (India/31 min/2017/English) – director: Jalal Ud Din Baba

The Can (Russia/02:31 min/2016/English) – director: Alexey Protsenko

Warning: Do we Really Clean? (Spain/93 min/2016/English subtitles) – director: Patric D. Cohen

The Birdman of Chorao (India/5 min/2017/English) – director: Shashank Bhosale

Modified (87 min/2017/English) – director: Aube Giroux

To celebrate Raimon Panikkar’s centenary and to mark the launch of the book Mysticism and Spirituality, first of the Collected Works of Raimon Panikkar, by Dr. Milena Carrara Pavan, President, International Cultural Centre Vivarium Panikkar, Tavertet, Spain; and Abhishek Jain, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, New Delhi

 

Symposium: Mysticism as a Universal Phenomenon

Speakers: Dr. Karan Singh; Professor Come Carpentier de Goudon; Dr. Mario Aguilar (Chile); Dr. Anand Amaladass; Dr. Kala Acharia; Dr. Paulo Barone (Italy); Dr. Daniel Monodeep; Dr. Ashis Nandy; and Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

 

Followed by an Audio-visual interview of Raimon Panikkar (2007) - Introduced by Milena Carrara Pavan

 

(Collaboration: Fundacio Vivarium Raimon Panikkar, Tavertet, Spain)

 

Limits of Consumption: Degradation of Environment and Ancient Wisdom

By Gauri Shankar Gupta (Hartford, U.K: Hanib Pub. 2018)

 

Discussants: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC; former Chair, National Security Advisory Board; and former Foreign Secretary; and Professor  Come Carpentier de Gourdon, Convener of the Editorial Board of the World Affair Journal; and Prof. (Dr.) Madhu Khanna, Historian

 

Chair: Shri B.P. Singh, former Governor of Sikkim and Home Secretary, GOI

 

Fidel and the Foreign Policy of Cuban Revolution

An exhibition of photographs and texts organized as part of the celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Republic of Cuba)

 

Mussoorie, 1953 (Hindi/45 min)

Dramatic reading of a short story of K.A. Abbas

Direction & Design: Dr. Danish Iqbal

On stage: Sunita Chowhan

 

The short story is written in the form of letters between two college friends, Salma and Usha. Interestingly, Salma writes and Usha receives. Locating the story in Mussoorie where Salma is brought there by her doting parents to forget her infatuation with Ahmed, a lecturer, leftist, and poor. Two families, neighbours and best friends, Khans and Mathurs, play out a charade of love, loss, histrionics, hypocrisy in an India of the 1950s

 

(Collaboration: Khwaja Ahmed Abbas Memorial Trust)

 

Release of 'Gandhi: The Soul Force Warrior'
 

A book by Pascal Alan Nazareth and published by Wisdom Tree, New Delhi

 

Chair: Shri Soli Sorabjee

 

This event is being organized by Sarvodaya International Trust and its New Delhi Chapter in collaboration with IIC and National Gandhi Museum

 

Shadow Monetary Policy Committee

 

Panelists: Dr. Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Advisor, Govt. of India and Executive Director, IMF; Indranil Sengupta, Chief Economic Advisor, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Dr. S.S. Bhalla, Senior India Analyst, The Observatory Group; Prof. B.L. Pandit, Dept. of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; and Dr. Charan Singh, Chief Executive and Director, EGROW Foundation

 

(Collaboration: EGROW Foundation for Economic Growth and Welfare)

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the UDHR

 

Lecture: A remarkable achievement – India’s contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by Miloon Kothari,  Independent Expert on Human Rights and Social Policy

 

Chair: Prof. Upendra Baxi, Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick and Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi

 

(Collaboration: UN in India)

International Conference on India and Central Asia
 

Inaugural Session 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, India International Centre

 

Welcome remarks by Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar, President, Institute of Global Studies and former Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan, Sweden and Latvia

 

Introduction to the Conference:  Professor Syed Akhtar Husain, President, Institute of Indo-Persian Studies, New Delhi and Professor, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Inauguration and Chairman’s Remarks by Shri N. N. Vohra

 

Vote of Thanks by Air Marshal Naresh Verma (Retd.), Director, India International Centre

 

(Organized by IIC-International Research Division; and Institute of Indo-Persian Studies, New Delhi)

 

Pathbreakers: The Twentieth Century Muslim Women of India

An exhibition on 21 Muslim Women who gave up the purdah on the eve of Independence and became partners in building a new India. The main body of their work spanned from 1947 until the end of the century and has remained largely invisible, unrecognized and unsung. They became writers, teachers, artists, scientists, lawyers, educators, political workers, trade unionists. A few became MPs, MLAs and some represented India in international fora. The women featured in this exhibition such as Begum Saeeda Khurshid, Begum Sharifa Hamid Ali, Begum Aziza Imam, Begum Saliha Abid Husain and others

 

Inauguration by Syeda Bilgrami Imam on Saturday, 1 December 2018 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Muslim Women’s Forum; and UN Women)