An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet

Presented under Guru-Shishya Parampara by Guru Prabuddha Raha and his disciple Arkapriya Bannerjee from Kolkata

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

 

 

Mere Desh ki Dharti (52 min; 2006; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sumit Khanna

 

Recipient of the Award for Best Investigative Film, 54th National Film Awards 2006

 

In our effort to achieve food security, have we compromised on food safety? The film investigates the impact of pesticides as it enters the food chain

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

 

 

Paintings and watercolours

By Ashish Khushwaha

 

Curated by Uma Nair

 

Preview on Friday, 19 May 2017 at 18:30

 

 

 

Release of the two volume DVDs by Shri Lalit Mansingh, former Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to USA

 

Followed by screening of excerpts introduced by Smt Madhavi Mudgal

 

The set of two DVDs, filmed by cinematographer, Divakar Mani, archives fifteen of her choreographies, reflecting fresh dimensions of the form through solo and group format

 

(Collaboration: Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi)

 

 

 

A Feel for Flamenco!

A presentation by Punita Singh

An emotive blend of song, rhythm and dance, Flamenco has evolved from being an expression of existential angst in the crucible of southern Spain to becoming a major genre of art and entertainment performed across the world. Declared an ‘intangible cultural heritage of humanity’ by the United Nations, Flamenco has antecedents in India through the Gypsy trail. The journey of Flamenco through space and time will be explored in this presentation by Punita and its syncopated rhythms, modal melodies, soulful songs and evocative dances illustrated via audio and video media 

Punita Singh is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi

 

 

Discussion on Indian Diplomacy @ 2020 – India on the Global Stage
 Chief Guest: Shri M.J. Akbar, Minister of External Affairs
 
Panelists: Amb. Jayant Prasad, Director-General, IDSA; Amb. Meera Shankar, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. and Germany; Shri Jayadev Ranade, President Centre for China Analysis and Study; Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra, Rector, JNU; Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, author of The Modi Doctrine; and Shri Ashok Malik, Distinguished Fellow, ORF
 
Moderator: Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar
 
India and the World a pioneering quarterly magazine-journal on international affairs will be launched during the discussion

 

(Collaboration: India Writes Network/TGII Media)

 

 

 

Health and Environment Series
 
Day & Night Body Rhythm – How it controls my health?
Series Moderator : Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director–Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College
 
 
Prof. A.B. Dey, Prof. & Head, Deptt. Of Geriatric Medicine, AIIMS; Dr. Tushar Kant Joshi, Occupational and Environmental Health Expert; Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director – Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College
 
 

(Collaboration: Health Environment Foundation in association with Consumers India)

 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search -II

A film presented by Ronald Eyre

 

Buddhism: Footprint of the Buddha-India (50 min; dvd; English)

To Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and India to discover the type of Buddhism practiced through Southeast Asia. Among those we meet are Buddhist monks – including one American, school children, novices and housewives. Each offers something from his own experience to help us come to grips with a religion that has high moral standards but does not believe in God

 

Catholicism: Rome, Leeds and the Desert (52 min; dvd; English)

Catholicism, especially since Vatican II, has undergone many changes. In this episode filed in Rome, Spain and England, we discover the diversity and the unity of the religious experience labelled the Holy Catholic Church

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

 

 

Hundreds of plants, flowers and fruits from Mesoamerica form the basis of Mexican gastronomy today. Many of these ingredients also travelled throughout the world and have since been assimilated by the cuisine of other countries. This exhibition describes the flora of Mexico through the voices of the first chroniclers and of curious, astonished travellers providing an introductory guide to those who wonder where certain foods come from

 

With photographs by Ariadna Cuadriello and Juan Pablo Cardona

 

Inauguration by Mr. Eduardo Martínez Curiel, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Mexico
on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 18:30
 

 

 

 

 

By Gayathri Rajaji from Chennai, disciple of Late Guru Adyar K Lakshman