The 2nd Lusophone Film Festival 2019

Screening of two films each evening from Angola, Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal

The Train of Salt and Sugar (Comboio de Sal e Açúcar/Mozambique)

(93 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Licinio Azevedo

Mozambique’s first ever entry to the Academy Awards brings us an epic tale of two passengers on a train: Rosa, a young and hopeful nurse, and Taiar, an idealistic soldier. A beautifully told story, the film explores the capacity for love and the lengths to which people will go to better their lives, within the framework of one of the darker moments in Mozambique’s history

Njinga: Queen of Angola (Njinga: Rainha de Angola/Angola)

(109 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sérgio Graciano

In 17th century Angola, a woman leads her kingdom in a long struggle for independence. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people become humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Nzinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying the motto: those who stay fight to win

(Collaboration: Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre)

Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2018 – Spring 2019 Social Media in a Networked World

Social Media in a Networked World

Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2018 – Spring 2019 Special Issue

Edited by Omita Goyal

To be released by Dr. Karan Singh

Followed by a discussion

WORLD DANCE DAY 2019

In the Multipurpose Hall from 09:30 to 12 noon

Rhythms in Dance

Workshop jointly conducted by Manohar Balatchandirane, mridangam artist; and Geeta Chandran, Bharatanatyam guru

The workshop is open to dancers of all styles, kindly please register your participation at natyavriksha@gmail.com

At 16:00

Rema Shrikant – A personal dance journey from Baroda

At 18:30 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

YOUNG DANCERS FESTIVAL

Mohiniattam Recital

By Methil Devika from Tiruvanathapuram

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Manasvini Ramachandran from Chennai

WORLD DANCE DAY: 27 & 28 APRIL 2019

World Dance Day: 27 & 28 April 2019

Organised in collaboration with Natya Vriksha; and Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India

In the Multipurpose Hall from 09:30 to 12 noon

Body and Movement Workshop

Conducted by Santosh Nair, Artistic Director, Sadhya Dance Company

The workshop is open to dancers of all styles, kindly please register your participation at natyavriksha@gmail.com

At 16:00

Culture and Innovation: The India Story

By Amb. Pavan K. Varma, former Diplomat, former MP, Author, Thinker and Motivational Speaker

At 18:30 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

Young Dancers Festival

Odissi Recital

By Rajashri Praharaj from Bhubaneshwar

Kathak

By Rupanshi Kashyap from Ahmedabad

Setting up a Public University: An Attempt to Draw some Lessons

Speaker: Professor Shyam Menon, Delhi University and until recently, Vice-Chancellor, Ambedkar University

Chair: Shri N.N.Vohra,President, IIC

The first lecture in the series on Higher Education

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Book Discussion Group

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

By Raghuram G. Rajan (HarperCollins India, 2019)

Discussants: Dr. Ashok V. Desai, former Chief Consultant, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India; Dr. Surjit S. Bhalla, Chairman, Oxus Investment; and Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER

Chair: Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Economist and former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

GANDHI MATTERS

Gandhi and Islam

Speaker: Prof. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor and Vice – Dean, Jindal Global Law School and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace, O.P. Jindal Global University

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Body Sutra

Launch of the new book by Alka Pande (New Delhi: Rupa Books, 2019)

Speakers: Dr. Srivats Goswami, Radharaman Mandir; Dr. Alka Pande, author, Art Historian and Curator; and Dr. Swarnamalya Ganesh, dancer, scholar and Professor of Arts, Krea University

Moderator: Dr. Arshiya Sethi, independent scholar, Founder and Managing Trustee, Kri Foundation

Two Stories of Rajee Seth - Dramatized

Rajee Seth’s short stories evoke a warm humanism tempered with an understanding and empathy for people faced with dilemmas in life, and who reach into their inner selves for answers. The two dramatized stories in Hindi are ‘memory pieces’, where the characters look inward and reflect on events that moved them deeply in their personal lives

Khali Lifafa (Empty Envelope)

‘Ma, you had promised to send me that empty envelope … to say that you are in difficult times … and that you need me …’. But that envelope never arrives, and the mother dies unexpectedly. The daughter struggles to fathom the relationship with her mother, and the wisdom of her ways, and that the unsaid is equally revealing about life and its challenges.

Ruko, Intezaar Husain (Wait, Intezaar Husain)

Roshan, a survivor of The Partition from Lahore, longs to revisit his traumatic past forty years after summer of 1947. Convinced that answers to his past must lie buried somewhere in the many books on The Partition, he starts to read Intezaar Husain’s novel Bastee. Hoping to discover his personal truth he embarks on an inner journey and confronts his past, with shattering realizations of what The Partition means to him

Direction: Rahul Seth, Long Jump Studio

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

Counter Seductions: The actress in the Colonial Metropolis

Speaker: Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature and works on performance studies, translation, children's literature and primary education. She currently teaches in the Department of English, University of Delhi. She is the author of Public Women in British India: Icons and the Urban Stage, Routledge, Delhi, 2019

Chair: Sudhir Chandra

What did work mean to the 19th century stage actress? What did she mean to the colonial metropolis? What do we make of fin-de-siècle images, personal narratives and popular print media a century later?

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