The Evolution of Fashion and India Modern

Speaker: Tarun Tahiliani, well-known fashion designer who creates couture, diffusion and prêt-a-porter which are Indian in their sensibility, yet international in their appeal. The rich heritage of the subcontinent is reinvented as contemporary high fashion through the genius of Indian craftsmanship and the finest textiles

FESTIVAL OF FILMS FROM ECUADOR

A special screening of documentaries and feature films from Ecuador organized in collaboration with Embassy of Ecuador

Screenings will be held on 6, 8, 13 and 16 May 2019 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

ON 6 MAY 2019 AT 18:30

Killa (Before the Moon Rises)

(60 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Alberto Muenala

Ecuador’s first feature film in the Kichwa language, the indigenous language spoken in the Amazon of Ecuador. Killa tells the story of a Kichwa photo-journalist who becomes the target of corrupt government officials when they find him snapping photographs of a shady mining operation. Adding intrigue to the narrative, is a love story subplot and the community’s increasingly tense resistance to the mine

ON 8 MAY 2019 AT 18:30

Llanganti (58 min; dvd; English)

The story of the search for the enormous Inca treasure hidden in the Ecuadorian mountains. A film on the expedition led by the adventurer and photographer, Jorge Juan Anhalzer, who went in search of an ancient Inca road that would take them to the tunnel, where the treasure has been hidden for five hundred years

ON 13 MAY 2019 AT 18:30

Open Wound (Mono con Gallina)

(85 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Alfredo Leon

Recipient of the awards for Best Performance by an Actor, Grand Jury Prize and Technical Grand Prize, World Premieres Film Festival 2014

Believing that military experience will make him stronger and respectable, Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, joins the armed forces in the midst of his country’s 1941 border war with Peru. Captured and imprisoned by enemy forces and given up for dead, Jorge faces neglect, hunger, and, possibly, even death as he recovers from his injuries. He will soon have to choose between escaping with fellow prisoner Hugo or staying at the camp under the care of the Peruvian nurse Dolores, with whom he has fallen in love

ON 16 MAY 2019 AT 18:30

La Tola Box

(85 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Pável Quevedo

Beyond the punches, boxing paints a complex portrait of life itself – its obstacles, the fight, the discipline, the commitment. La Tola Box is a film that examines the more humane aspects of boxing. It explores the life of four distinct characters – one for each corner of the boxing ring: Ecuadorian boxing veterans Eugenio Espinoza and Ramiro ‘Clay’ Bolaños, the young aspiring boxer César, and the young amateur boxer Carlos

MONODHAMA DANCE FESTIVAL

MONODHARMA DANCE FESTIVAL

FROM 10:00 TO 17:00 AT THE ANNEXE LECTURE ROOM II

Seminar on Beyond Technique

Welcome by Sharon Lowen, festival organizer

Screening of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra monodhama films

Followed by presentations by renowned classical dancers on their approach to monodhama interpretation and elaboration of text

Speakers include: Vidushi Saswati Sen; Guru Lakshmi Vishwanathan; Guru Singhajit Singh and Charu Singh; and Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan

Guru Kamalini Dutt and Sharon Lowen will speak on Pedagogy of Teaching Monodharma to Today’s Students

At 18:30 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

Kathak

By Pt. Birju Maharaj, the undisputed master of Kathak, torch bearer of the Kalka-Bindadin gharana of Lucknow. A wonderful poet, musician, and singer of thumri, dadra, bhajan and ghazals, he has applied his nuanced abhinaya on non-mythological and social issues as well as classical mythology and spirituality

MONODHARMA DANCE FESTIVAL: 3RD AND 4TH MAY 2019

Ideas developed through movement – inspired by text

Organised in collaboration with Manasa-Art Without Frontiers

Bharatanatyam

By Vidushi Lakshmi Vishwanathan, senior exponent of the Tanjore tradition of Bharatanatyam who’s spontaneous improvisations display her originality in unfolding of visual poetry

WOMEN IN LAW IN INDIA

Women in Law - The Path of Empowerment

Speaker: Justice Sujata Manohar, former Judge, Supreme Court

Discussants: Ms Madhavi Goradia Divan, Additional Solicitor General, Supreme Court;

Chair: Shri Soli J.Sorabjee

Second lecture in the new series focusing on Women in Law in India

NATO and Turkey

Speaker: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Vinod Saighal, VSM author and Executive Director, Eco Monitors Society

Introductory Observations: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

At the end of World War II the Western allies decided to form the North Atlantic Treaty Pact (NATO) to counter the advance of the Soviet Union and its communist ideology. Stalin had quickly incorporated the Baltic Republics and Eastern Europe into the Soviet sphere. Turkey with the strongest army in Europe was the bulwark of the defences against the Soviet Union. Recently, however, strains have developed in the alliance. Turkey is now more inclined towards Russia. The break up with NATO whether imminent or not makes Turkey's support meaningless

Cello Concert

Presented by Sándor Dezsc? from Hungary

The artist will presents cello suites of J.S. Bach

(Collaboration: Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre)

Discussion on Annihilating Casteism in the Indian Republic

Speakers: Prof. Y.S. Alone, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Ram Chandra, Professor, Centre of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Sharad Prahlad Baviskar, Assistant Professor, Centre for French and Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Ms Arundhati Roy, Author and Activist (tbc)

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritik ani Rannaniti Adhyayan Samiti; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

30th Annual Padmapani Lecture

The Geography of Paradise: Hidden Lands in Tibetan Myth and History

Speaker: Mr.Iran Baker

Dr. Dagmar Graefin Berstorff Commemorative Lecture

India and Germany: On the Way to Regional Integrations?

Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang-Peter Zingel, South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg

Discussants: Ambassador Dr. Sheel Kant Sharma; and Prof Ummu Salma Bava, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Ambassador Ronen Sen, President FIGS

Moderator: Dr. Ronald Meinardus, Head, FNF, Regional Office South Asia

(Collaboration: Federation of Indo-German Societies in India; and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom)

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