FILMS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Water Every Drop Counts (26 min; dvd; English) 

A short film on the world's most precious resource - water. With demand for water likely to double in the next two decades, it is the top priority of countries all round the world to conserve it. And yet in the name of development, countries around the world are fast depleting their water resources… 

 

The Hard Edge (30 min; dvd; English)  

The film focusses on the efforts of Southern African nations to preserve the Zambezi river system comprising of lagoons, lakes, wetlands and wildlife preserves. It focuses on the joint action plan of the Southern African nations sharing the Zambezi river to reconcile the needs of wildlife and people

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

A Dialogue of Rivers

 

 

 

River Dialogues

 

In conversation - Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University; Krupa Ge, author of Rivers Remember, editor & columnist; Minket Lepcha, award-wining filmmaker & director of Voices of Teesta; and Sarandha Jain author of In Search of Yamuna: Reflections on River Lost

 

 

 

A new series of talks and dialogues that hopes to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The series hopes to flow like tributaries into all other rivers like the Brahmaputra, Ganges, Narmada, Indus, Yamuna, Teesta, Gomti, Periyar, Krishna, Godavari, Sabarmati etc. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions. On opening of streams of thought and conversations for a future with exciting possibilities

 

 

 

First in a new series of quarterly river conversations conceptualised by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Journalism and Vice Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat

 

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Western Classical Music in the Mirror of Time

Illustrated lecture by Tomasz Pajak who will introduce and elaborate on the distinctive style characterization of each musical era, interspersed with musical recordings 

 

Tomasz Pajak has studied MA and MM in violin performance and is a violin teacher at the Delhi School of Music and at the Neemrana Music Foundation

 

GANDHI MATTERS

 

In Conversation

Atul Dodiya, Riyas Komu and Gulam Mohd. Sheikh in conversation

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Decoding Risks and Challenges in the Real Estate Sector

Indian real estate has evolved over the last decade with the opening of FDI in 2005. During the period 2005-08, this resulted in a large flow of institutional money. But we were not ready for this large influx of capital, resulting in the creation of large projects for which execution infrastructure was not in place. With REITs and other regulatory intervention (like RERA, GST, Benami Act) there is renewed interest from large investors like Blackstone, Brookfield, CPPIB, APG, Ascendas, QIA, etc. But is it very important for investors and developers to understand the key risk factors in the Indian built environment sector and their mitigation strategies. In the last decade, we have seen many unfinished projects and conflicts between investors, lenders, and developers, which have a trickle-down impact on the home buyers and end users. The key questions are, do investors, lenders and developers understand these risks? And what is the best practices to mitigate them

 

The panelists will include Private equity investor, lender (bank of NBFC), a developer and lawyer

 

(Collaboration: RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University)

 

 

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Cultural Labour: Conceptualising the ‘Folk Performance’ in India

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Brahma Prakash, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of Cultural Labour (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019)

 

Chair: Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies

 

In Cultural Labour, Prof. Prakash studies bhuiyan puja (landworship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana. He examines various ways in which meanings and behaviours are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, Prof. Prakash looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts

 

ART MATTERS

 

Celebrating Literature

With Namita Gokhale and Urvashi Butalia

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)