Bornadi Bhotiai (In love, by the river/Assamese)

(120 min; 2019; dvd; English subtitles)

Written, Produced & Directed by Anupam Kaushik Borah

 

Set on the island of Majuli, Bornodi Bhotiai follows the story of four boys who fall head over heels for the same girl. Educated but unemployed, all they dream of is a beautiful life with her

 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

 

Mind and Matter: Intersection of Poetry and Science

A discussion on Mandira Ghosh’s volume of verses, Poetry and Science: Opposites Meet

 

Speakers: Mr. Alexey Shaposhnikov, Head, Science and Technology Section, Russian Centre of Science and Culture, New Delhi; Shri Nimish Kapoor, Head-Science Films Division, Vigyan Prasar, National Institute for S & T Communication, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India; Dr. Rita Malhotra, poet and mathematician, former Principal & Professor, Kamla Nehru College, and President, Poetry Across Cultures; and Ms Mandira Ghosh, poet and author who will read poems from the book

 

Chair: Shri Gauhar Raza, scientist and leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

MALAYALAM FILM FESTIVAL

 

Kathan – Lover of Colours (90 min; 2018; dvd; English subtitles)

Director & Producer: Shareef C.

 

Recipient of the Kerala State Award for Best Film, 2019

 

The film explores the hardscrabble lives of Kerala’s Adivasis through the story of the titular protagonist, a young orphan who lives with his grandmother

 

At 18:30

Body Deep (Udalazham)

(106 min; 2018; dvd; English subtitles)

Director & Screenplay: Unnikrishnan Avala who will introduce the film

 

Gulikan, born and brought up as a boy, has the body and soul of a girl. Dark skinned, fragile, introvert and vulnerable, he struggles to balance his life

 

POLICY AND INCLUSION DEBATES SERIES

 

 

Between Art Deco and Modernism – Polish Posters from 1918 - 1939

An exhibition of archival posters from the collection of the Poster Museum at Wilanów

 

Since the late 19th – early 20th century, poster design has been recognized in the Polish artistic tradition as a source of national pride. Poster design was considered a driving force of artistic progress as it brought together architecture, painting and sculpture with artistic design. Artists were not limited to the creation of unique pieces; they were also able to use mass production to present common symbols and aesthetics of the times to their work. It was precisely this ability to blend both the new and the existing that brought Polish artists to a level of international recognition for their modern stylization and interpretation of folklore. The two distinct approaches, traditionalism and modernism, complemented each other and were often combined in a manner which allowed for individual expression. It was this harmonious synthesis that best defined Polish poster art in the period between the wars 

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 18th June 2019 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Polish Institute, New Delhi )

 

Where is Algeria Going?

Speakers: Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Professor Emeritus, and a Senior Fellow at DiploFoundation and former Indian Ambassador and High Commissioner for Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany; and Prof. Gulshan Dietl,  Former Professor, Center for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Summer wine, woman and song

Rewinding Nancy Sinatra with Punita Singh

 

We rewind and replay works by Nancy Sinatra, daughter of the legendary American singer Frank Sinatra. Though launched professionally on her father’s TV show in 1960, Nancy went on to establish her own unique style, making it to the top of the charts with multiple hits through the sixties. Her partnership with Lee Hazlewood produced enduring masterpieces like ‘Summer wine’, ‘These boots are made for walking’, ‘Friday’s child’, ‘Sugar town’, ‘Some velvet morning’ and more

 

Punita is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in Delhi

 

World Environment Day and Teachers’ Training Workshop on ‘Chemistry and Environment’

A two day workshop on 6th and 7th June 2019

 

Speakers: Dr. (Smt) Malti Goel, Climate Change Research Institute, New Delhi; Shri A. K. Dwivedi, Director, ONGC (tbc); Dr. G.D. Sharma, former Secretary UGC; Smt Vimala Oak, Royal Society of Chemistry, Bangalore (tbc)

 

(Collaboration: Climate Change Research Institute; The Royal Society of Chemistry, India Office; Delhi State Science Teachers Forum; and ONGC)

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Meeting the Challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases in India: From Prevention to Palliative Care

Speaker: Prof. D. Prabhakaran, Vice-President, Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India

 

China Since its WTO Membership: An Exploration

 

Speaker: Dr. Biswajit Dhar, Professor & Head, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Dr. Dhar has been working extensively on the multilateral trading system for more than two decades

 

 

 

Chair: Ambassador Jayant Dasgupta, former Ambassador to WTO

 

 

 

China’s experience as a WTO member raises a number of important questions many of which need to be explored and explained. The most intriguing is that while most developing countries, including India and Brazil, were complaining about the constraints they had faced in the WTO to protect their interests, China was able to expand rapidly in international markets. On hindsight, it is obvious that China used its WTO membership to considerable advantage. How was it able to do this? What did China do so strikingly different from other developing countries to make such a big difference on the international stage? And can developing countries draw lessons from China’s engagement with the WTO and replicate them, at least partially?

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)