BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
23 January 2019, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Poverty, Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics: Policy Imperatives
Edited by Aasha Kapur Mehta, Shashanka Bhide, Anand Kumar and Amita Shah (Springer, 2018)
Discussants: Prof. Abhijit Sen, former Member, Planning Commission; Prof. Ravi Srivastava, Professor, Institute for Human Development; and Dr. Rinku Murgai, The World Bank
Chair: Prof. S.R. Hashim, Chairman, Institute for Human Development
Yeh Freedom Life/This Freedom Life (70 min; 2018; dvd; Hindi with English subtitles)
23 January 2019, 05:30 am
Direction & Editing: Priya Sen who will introduce the film
Yeh Freedom Life/This Freedom Life (70 min; 2018; dvd; Hindi with English subtitles)
Yeh Freedom Life/This Freedom Life (70 min; 2018; dvd; Hindi with English subtitles)
Direction & Editing: Priya Sen who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Yeh Freedom Life/This Freedom Life tries to keep up with its protagonists, as they manoeuvre erratic and unpredictable love. One of them works at a local beauty parlour, the other runs the family’s small cigarette counter at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film accompanies them through their desire to live according to them, their ‘freedom life’, outside society and the family’s constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints
IIC ANNUAL DAY
22 January 2019, 05:30 am
Coordinated by Smt. Meera Bhatia
IIC ANNUAL DAY
Programme Type
Cultural
IIC ANNUAL DAY
Stories of Premchand (Hindi play; 85 min)
Directed by Rajinder Nath
Coordinated by Smt. Meera Bhatia
Following four short stories of Munshi Premchand presented by Nepathya Foundation
Moteram Ji Shastri
With Praveen Kumar, Mala Kumar, Rekha Johri
Narrator: Vishal Singh
Lathaiths: Jagdish Kanojia, Vishal Singh and Abhishek Kumar
Shanti
With Sanjeev Johri, Mala Kumar, Jagdish Kanojia, Rakha Johri
Barre Bhai Sab
With Gaurav Sethi, Animesh Singhal
Sadgati
With V.K. Bindu, Rekha Johri, Sanjeev Johri, Jagdish Kanojia, Mala Kumar
Can Digital India Get Past the Real India? India's Prospects in the New World Order
21 January 2019, 05:30 am
Can Digital India Get Past the Real India? India's Prospects in the New World Order
Programme Type
Talks
Can Digital India Get Past the Real India? India's Prospects in the New World Order
Speaker: Professor Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the founding Executive Director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context
Digital India, on paper, is poised to grow into a global force – it could potentially jump ahead in the new world order in ways unimaginable by the "real" India. The number of internet users in India and China surpasses the aggregate of internet users across 37 of the richest countries combined. This means India could, in principle, be one of the largest repositories of a key ingredient that powers the future: data. But the key question is: can Digital India ever get past the real India? We shall discuss the prospects and what the lead-up to the 2019 elections suggest
90th Birthday Commemoration of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
21 January 2019, 05:30 am
(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Biradari and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
90th Birthday Commemoration of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Programme Type
Cultural
MONDAY 21
COMMEMORATION ? GANDHI-KING MEMORIAL PLAZA/ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM FROM 10:30 TO 12:15
90th Birthday Commemoration of Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Celebration of the Power of Non-Violent Action
& the Life of Martin Luther King Jr [15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968]
Commemoration Service 10.30 am to 11.00 am – Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza
Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR
Interactive Session 11.15 am to 12.15 pm – C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
Theme of the Interactive Session:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that".
- Martin Luther King, Jr, from a sermon given at the Dexter Baptist Church, November 17, 1957
Special Address by Representative of the US Mission in India
During the Interactive Session a short film on Martin Luther King's Life shall be screened
Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker (Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
Students from Schools of Delhi NCR to participate
The day marks the 49th anniversary of the Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza. The Plaza was inaugurated on 21 January 1970 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
This programme is part of the Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development
(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Biradari and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
19 January 2019, 05:30 am
FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
Mucking up the Mediterranean (52 min; dvd; English)
Only 300 Monk Seals, it is estimated, are now left in the Mediterranean Sea. This gradual disappearance of the monk seal is not only an indicator of a species going extinct but also of the degradation of the Mediterranean Sea. Over-development, fishing, relentless dumping of industrial waste and sewage have turned the sea into a breeding ground for diseases. The prospect of cleaning up also looks grim
(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
18 January 2019, 05:30 am
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Programme Type
Discussions
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
Cosmopolitan Dreams: the Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia
Speaker: Prof. Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor of Urdu, Asian languages and Literature, University of Washington
Chair: Prof. Mohammed Asaduddin, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
This talk introduces the world of late 19th century Urdu print, in which a dynamic and interactive literary culture flourished. Readers and writers cultivated cosmopolitan affiliations in the pages of Urdu – language periodicals and newspapers such as Avadh Akhbar and Avadh Punch