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?

POLICY AND INCLUSION DEBATES SERIES

Peasants, Policy & the Polls

Deepening agrarian crisis and the way ahead

List of speakers/panelists (participation subject to confirmation):

1. Kavita Kuruganthi, Social Activist, Founder Convener of Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA)

2. Utsa Patnaik, Noted Economist

3. Siraj Hussain, former Secy of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (GoI), Currently Fellow, ICRIER

4. Ajay Jhakar, Bharat Krishak Samaj (Farmers' Forum India)

5. Harish Damodaran, Author and Journalist - Specialist on Rural Affairs

Moderator: Harsh Mander, Director, CES

(Collaboration: Centre for Equity Studies)

Bandung Day Symposium

Bandung Day Symposium 2019

Cultural Programme

Pratidhwani directed by Prof. Subhendu Ghosh

At 18:30

Symposium on Disarmament: Reviving Global Initiatives

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

Presentation of a perspective plan: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, former Foreign Secretary; and Ambassador Sheelkant Sharma, former Ambassador to IAEA

Discussants: Darwis Khudori, Convener, Bandung Spirit Network; Happymon Jacob, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Manoranjan Mohanty, former Professor, University of Delhi

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

And the alley she whitewashed in light blue” (72 mins; 2018; Blue-Ray; English subtitles)

At the time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, architect,

Nili Portugali takes us into a deeply intimate journey in the Galilean ‘Kabbala’ holy city of Tsefat.

A childhood memories journey that unfolds to a discovery of universal insights

from her holistic/Buddhist/ scientific P.O.V: What is the secret of all Timeless places in which man feels 'at Home'

& what is that ' Pure Art of making' that creates them? At any culture; place; time.

A film crossing new boundaries - straddling the line between art and cinema

The film was World Premiered at the Mumbai International Film festival

Director Nili portugali will attend the screening and hold Q&A session

The Brexit Conundrum

Panelists: Ambassador Yashvardan Kumar Sinha, former High Commissioner to UK & Central Information Commissioner;

Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Centre for Economic Studies & Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and

Dr. John Cherian, Foreign Editor, The Frontline

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International Law

The 2016 referendum held in the United Kingdom approved Brexit. In March 2017, after much delay, the UK invoked article 50 of the European Union Treaty to give notice of its decision to leave the Union. The long-winded negociations between London and Brussels resulted in an agreement of withdrawal. Yet to be approved by the House of Commons. As of now, the date of exit and whether it will be with or without an agreed deal is uncertain. The panelists will deal with the unfolding drama and its implications for UK, Europe, India, and the rest of the world

A Tribute to Mrinal Sen

A tribute to the celebrated director with a screening of two very popular feature films featuring Mamata Shankar

Akaler Sandhaney

Director: Mrinal Sen

Recipient of the National Film Awards 1979 for Best Film in Bengali & Best Director

The daughter of a middle-class family fails to return home one night. Her worried family organizes a search party and the situation quickly deteriorates into a deeper crisis made worse by the fact that she is the only bread winner in the family

At 18:00

Kharij (95 min; 1982; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Mrinal Sen

Recipient of the National Film Award 1982 for Second Best Direction

The film tells the story of a middle-class family who’s child servant is found dead, and their efforts to pacify his grieving father

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

Arts from the Banks of the Brahmaputra

Sattriya Dances

Choreographed and presented by Guru Meenakshi Medhi and her ensemble from Guwahati

Followed by

Popular Melodies of Bhupen Hazarika, Hemant Kumar and Other Bollywood Legends

Vocal recital by Sagnik Sen from Kolkata

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

The Zohra Segal Festival of the Arts

Dances from Films C.I.D. and Nau Do Gyarah

Composed by Zohra Segal

At 18:45

Film Ladoo

At 19:00

Hindustani Classical Vocal

By Kalapini Komkali

Anne Frank: A History for Today

An exhibition of photographs that recount Anne Frank’s life, conditions in the hideout, the war and her eventual death in a Nazi concentration camp. As part of this exhibition, on a screen, photo montages and video interviews with Anne Frank’s late father, Otto Frank, relatives and historians will run in a loop

(Collaboration: The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam; PeaceWorks, an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts; and Embassy of The Netherlands)

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