An intrepid traveller with a special interest in Romani music, language and culture, Punita Singh shares sounds, sights and stories from visits to Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania

 

 

Directed by Kivini Shohe who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division of India

 

Recipient of the Best Documentary Award, Film Northeast 2015, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh; and Best Documentary Award, ADDA Film Festival 2016, Guwahati

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film explores the struggle of three transgenders in Nagaland’s commercial hub, Dimapur. In the first ever documentation of a community haunted by taboo and denial, the film catches Rongsen’s pulse as it slows down; the relationship dilemma in Moa’s life and Toshi’s journey exploring the thin line between her professional and personal life

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Nawang B. Phuntsog, Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar to India 2017-2018 and Associate Professor of Education, Department of Elementary, and Bilingual Education, California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Phuntsog is presenting working on exploring the intersections of compassion-based inner values (secular ethics), the Middle Way Approach for resolving Sino-Tibetan issue and Tibetan Nationalism in the schooling process

 

(Collaboration: Tibet House) 

 

 

Poets and Speakers: Himadri Kumar Datta, Mandira Ghosh, Nibedita Sen, Sirsendu Chakraborty and Dilip Fouzdar

 

Chair: Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

(82 min; 2017; dvd; Kannada, Waghri boli with English subtitles)

 

Direction & Photography: Vinod Raja who will introduce the film

Script & Narration: Madhu Bhushan

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The Hakki Pikkis are a free spirited nomadic tribe who began their wandering many generations ago in the North Western part of the Indian subcontinent but have travelled through and settled in different states of the country. They make a living by trapping small game in the forest and selling them along with lucky charms and trinkets. If the trap fails, begging is the next bet! With their traditional ways of life outlawed, the community share their stories of wit and survival

 

 

 

Panellists: Dhruv Arora, Digital and Strategic Communications Manager, Centre for Policy Research; Parag Mohanty, Political Consultant; Bhanu Joshi, Research Associate, CPR;  Anshul Tewari, Founder, Youth ki Awaaz;  Apar Gupta, Lawyer and trustee, Internet Freedom Foundation; and Tamseel Hussain, Public Engagement and Communications Consultant

 

Moderator:  Richa Bansal, Director of Communications, Centre for Policy Research

 

 

By Shruti Jauhari from Chennai, disciple of Pt. G.R. Kulkarni, Pt. Sharda Prasad Bhatt and Dr. K.J. Yesudas

 

An exhibition of paintings with natural dyes

By Aruna Devi Tomar from Dehra Dun

 

Inauguration by Maj. Gen. Dilawar Singh (Retd.), Director-General, Youth Affairs on Tuesday 1st August 2017 at 18:30 

 

 

 

 

 

Launch of the programme and e-kit and I Love Reading book series

 

The 300 Million Challenge is a Katha-led initiative that stems from the fact that 50% of the 300 million children in India, cannot read at grade level. Katha, along with its strategic partners, seeks to solve this problem. The event marks the beginning of many initiatives to bring the joy of reading to every child.

 

 

 

Katha will be joined by our strategic partners, eminent personalities from various fields, children, women from our communities and various stakeholders

 

 

 

Anyone is welcome to attend the event to get a better understanding of the Challenge. You can donate your old books for our children (Hindi story preferred for 5 – 10 year olds)

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Katha)