IIC WINTER FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DANCE: 27 AND 28 DECEMBER 2019

 

IIC Winter Festival of Music

 

At 18:00

Rudra Veena Recital

By Sharada Mushti from Delhi, disciple of Pandit Arvind Parikh 

 

AT 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By  Adarsh Saxena  from Dehradun, disciple of  Pt Arun Bhaduri

 

The Homeland

An exhibition by Moutushi Chakraborty who interrogates the idea of home. What is a ‘Home’? A three dimensional space to seek physical respite and emotional solace perhaps…or maybe an architectural splendor to boast of…a tattered bunker to hide from grenades or bullets…a magical cocoon to build dreams on…

 

On view are works in mixed media on paper

 

Inauguration on Monday, 23 December 2019 at 18:30

 

 

Human Origin, Health and Disease: Contemporary and Ancient DNA Perspectives

Speaker: Prof. K. Thangaraj, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

 

Modern India is a region of remarkable cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity with over 4,500 anthropologically well-defined groups. How did such a huge human diversity arise in India? Genetic studies over a period of two decades unveil the origin, admixture and its implications of the people of Indian subcontinent

 

 

Recasting Selves (English, Malayalam)

(80 min; 2019; dvd; English subtitles)

Direction, Script & Editing: Lalit Vachani who will introduce the film

An ICAS:MP and CeMIS (Centre for Modern Indian Studies) production

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film foregrounds the fraught issues in the education sector facing the traditionally disadvantaged peoples of Kerala - Adivasis and Dalits. Set at Crest (the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation) in Kozhikode, Kerala – the film documents the ‘soft skills’ training of Dalit and Adivasi post-graduate students in a sensitive and nurturing campus environment as preparation for their employment in the new Indian economy.

 

Fifth Edition of State of the Indian Economy

Speakers: Prof Partha Sen, ECGC Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and former Director, Delhi School of Economics; Prof Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof R. Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; and Prof Vikas Rawal, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

ART MATTERS

 

Gandhi and Art of Social Change

Speakers: Prof. Akeel Bilgrami and Dr. Abhay Bang

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

The Running of Indian Schools in the Gulf: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Ms Ambika Gulati, Principal, The Millennium School, Dubai

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

THE APU TRILOGY

 

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu/Bengali)

(107 min; 1959; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty

 

Recipient of the Sutherland Trophy, British Film Institute Awards, 1959; National Film Award for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, 1959; and NBR Awards for Best Foreign Film & Top Foreign Films, National Board of Reviews, USA 1960

 

Based on the last two-thirds of the 1932 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the trials and tribulations in Apu’s adult world  

 

THE APU TRILOGY

 

Aparajito (The Unvanquished/Bengali)

(113 min; 1956; b/w; Bluray; English subtitles)

With Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sen Gupta

 

Recipient of the FIPRESCIPrize & Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1957; Golden Gate Award for Best Director, San Francisco International Film Festival 1958; and NBR Award for Top Foreign Film, National Board of Review, USA 1959

 

The film chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college, the death of his mother, and his journey into the real world