INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
18 August 2017, 05:30 am
Chair: Shri B.M Pande
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Programme Type
Talks
Interpreting the Past through Science
Speaker: Dr. V. N. Prabhakar, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Visiting Faculty at the Archaeological Sciences Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Carried out investigations on the bead drilling technology of Dholavira Harappans, copper remains from Dholavira, palaeoclimatic investigations of northern Rajasthan based on archaeobotanical remains.
Chair: Shri B.M Pande
Archaeology has emerged into a multi-disciplinary science, departing from the traditional methodology of ‘descriptive archaeology’. It now employs various scientific disciplines, like geology, material sciences, metallurgy, anthropology, botany, zoology, computer science, statistics, etc. This lecture will explain a few case studies of understanding and interpreting the past using scientific disciplines, in particular, those undertaken by the speaker in the field of Harappan archaeology. The case studies will include on the bead drilling technology of the Harappans, evidence for textile remains and their interpretation, evidence for mobility of people during third and second millennium BCE.
The Fresh Lense: New Cinematic Voices from Northeast India
19 August 2017, 05:30 am
The Fresh Lense: New Cinematic Voices from Northeast India
Programme Type
Festivals
SATURDAY 19
FESTIVAL ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM FROM 11:00 ONWARDS
Alifa (Assam)
(109 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Deep Choudhury
Recipient of the Golden Lotus Award for Best Debut Film of a Director, 64th National Film Awards 2017; and Best Film Award, Ottawa Indian Film Festival, Canada
Ali, a daily wage earner living in the vicinity of a sprawling city, has to cope with uncertainty, hardship and abuse. He is at the mercy of a forest guard from being evicted from his family’s new-found habitat in a green hilly area overlooking the city. He finds solace in his hardworking, young wife and their two children. Alifa is a saga of human-wildlife conflict competing with basic questions of love, hatred, dreams and desires as well as the frailties of human nature and wider social bonding
AT 14:00
The Pangti Story (Nagaland)
(26 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Sesino Yhoshu
Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Recipient of the Golden Beaver Award for Best Film, National Science Film Festival, Kolkata 2017
The film explores the transition of an entire village from one that slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Amur Falcons, the longest travelling raptors in the world, who fly from Siberia every fall to roost in Pangti, a small village in Nagaland, to becoming their most fervent conservationists
AT 14:45
Beautiful Lives (Assam)
(123 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Kangkan Deka
Screened at Kolkata International Film Festival
Based on the 2008 bombings in Guwahati, the film portrays the undying spirit of one of the victims and his day-to-day struggle to survive
AT 17:00
Sabin Alun (The Broken Song; Assam)
(52 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)
Script & Direction: Altaf Mazid
Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Recipient of the Cinema Experimenta Award, John Abraham National Film Awards, Signs, Kerala 2016; Indian Panorama 2016
Sabin Alun examines the oral singing traditions of the Karbi tribe from Assam. One of the stories that has passed down the generations is a local version of the Ramayana epic, in which Sita is Sinta, the brothers are named Ram and Lokon, and the villain is Ravon. Sabin is the other name for Shurpanakha, whose nose is cut off by Laxman, forcing Ravana into taking revenge for her humiliation by abducting Sita. Rather than a straightforward information-led documentary that introduces us to the Karbi tradition and includes interviews with the community members, Mazid gets performers to sing and enact episodes from the epic. The documentary brilliantly captures with minimal resources the manner in which the Karbis have merged the themes of the Ramayana with their animistic tenets and agricultural lifestyle
AT 18:00
Antardrishti (Man with the Binoculars; Assam)
(100 min; 2016; HD; English subtitles)
Director: Rima Das
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival; and Black Nights Talinn Film Festival
Chaudhury, a geography teacher, living a quiet, retired life of patriarch watches over his family in rural Assam, India. His life starts turning upside down when his musician son, who has come for a visit gifts him a pair of Binoculars!
The Fresh Lense: New Cinematic Voices from Northeast India – 18 and 19 August 2017
18 August 2017, 05:30 am
The Fresh Lense: New Cinematic Voices from Northeast India – 18 and 19 August 2017
Programme Type
Festivals
Far away from the glamour world of big budget Hindi cinema – and consequently the gaze of the usual film goer in the Indian heartland – filmmakers in Northeast India have, over the years, been consistently telling their stories in an artistic and grounded manner. This festival presents some significant voices among a new generation of filmmakers who following in the footsteps of veterans like Aribam Syam Sharma, Jahnu Barua and the late Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia, have made a mark at the international and national level. Organised in collaboration with North East Media Forum the festival includes award winning documentaries and features
Curator: Utpal Borpujari, filmmaker and film critic
Introduction
By Utpal Borpujari
Aaba (Grandfather; Arunachal Pradesh)
(22 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Amar Kaushik
Recipient of the Special Prize of Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Short Film, 67th Berlin Film Festival; and Best Short Fiction Film, 64th National Film Awards 2016
Aaba is about a farmer (Dani Randa), who lives with his wife (Dani Chunya) and granddaughter (Sunku) in Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh. He is diagnosed with lung cancer and has only a few days to live. He decides to dig his own grave, but an unexpected event pushes the story towards a startling climax
Followed by
Loktak Lairembee (Lady of the Lake; Manipur)
(71 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Haobam Paban Kumar
Multiple award winner including Best Environment Film, 64th National Film Awards 2016; 26th G. Aravindan Puruskaram for the Best Debut Director, 2016; FIPRESCI India, Critics Award, 9th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2017; NETPAC Award (Asian Select), 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival 2016; among others
Haobam Paban Kumar’s debut feature film is based on the lives of people living on floating huts in Manipur’s Loktak Lake. Under the guise of protecting the serenity of the lake’s ecosystem, in 2011 the authorities had burnt the huts leaving thousands of fishermen homeless. The film is the story of one such fisherman, Tomba who accidentally comes across a gun hidden in the biomass. Possessing a gun transforms Tomba who becomes very assertive and begins to believe that it is the solution to all his problems. One day, a mysterious lady wanders in from the lake and knocks on his door in the middle of the night
Krishna Arpanam (on the pranks of Lord Krishna)
17 August 2017, 05:30 am
Krishna Arpanam (on the pranks of Lord Krishna)
Programme Type
Cultural
A Bharatanatyam presentation by Dakshina Vaidyanathan Bhagel; Nehha Bhatnagar; Gayatri Deka; Akanksha Rana; Debasmita Thakur; Ankita Kaushik; Amrit Sinha; and Shamshur Rehman from Delhi, senior disciples of Guru Smt Saroja Vaidyanathan
(Collaboration: Ganesa Natyalaya)
CONFLICTS, POST CONFLICTS AND PEOPLES’ MEMORY
17 August 2017, 05:30 am
CONFLICTS, POST CONFLICTS AND PEOPLES’ MEMORY
Programme Type
Discussions
THURSDAY 17
DISCUSSION ? CONFERENCE ROOM II AT 16:00
A series of discussions on post-CivilWar Spain and post dictatorship in Latin America dealing with the burden of memory and general mass of people as the main actors/sufferers during the crisis and survivors of the same who have to carry this burden in their mind for a long period of time. In the course of the series texts (fiction/ nonfiction), films paintings and other art production will be discussed.
Series Coordinator: Professor Vibha Maurya who will give an introduction
Speakers: Dr. Margit Koves, Professor of Hungarian Studies, University of Delhi; Dr. Tarun Saint, English Department, Hindu College; and Durba Banerji, Research Scholar, Hispanic Studies, University of Delhi
(Collaboration: Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi)
Radhe-Krishna
14 August 2017, 05:30 am
Radhe-Krishna
Programme Type
Cultural
PERFORMANCE ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 19:00
In Kathak and Brij-Raas Style
Dance Choreography by Uma Sharma
Music Direction: Pt. Jwala Prasad
Accompanists: Madho Prasad (gayan); Vinay Prasanna (flute); Mubarak Khan (tabla); Khalid Mustafa (sitar); and Yograj Panwar (padhant)
Compere: Sadhna Shrivastav