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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

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09 August 2017, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
 
 

Book Discussion Group

 

Energizing India: Towards a Resilient and Equitable Energy System

By Suman Bery [Et al.] (New Delhi: Sage, 2017)

 

Panelists: Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission; Shri Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman and Senior Fellow, Brookings India; and Shri Ashok Bhattacharyya, Editor, Business Standard; and

 

Lead authors will give a brief introduction on the book

 

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary

 


CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

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09 August 2017, 05:30 am
CREEDS OF OUR TIMES
WEDNESDAY 9
 
 
Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
 
The Long Search - IV
A film presented by Ronald Eyre 
 
Judaism: The Chosen People (51 min; dvd; English)
What is it that makes a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it, In London, Nobert Brainin and the Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music. Inevitability the search takes us to Jerusalem, where Dr. Pinches Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation Jerusalem, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide through the religious schools, the synagogues and a museum for the survivors of the Holocaust
 
Religion In Indonesia: The Way Of The Ancestors (51 min; dvd; English)
There are almost 200 million people scattered across the world who belong to tribal religions that are local, exclusive and frequency animist – i.e., they believe that inanimate objects and natural phenomena process a soul. Through no single group can be chosen as typical, this episode is devoted to primal religions-that of the Torajas who live in a mountain fortress on an Indonesia island
 
 
 

CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

Old Programmes
Old Programmes  
09 August 2017, 05:30 am
CREEDS OF OUR TIMES
Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
 
The Long Search - IV
A film presented by Ronald Eyre 
 
Judaism: The Chosen People (51 min; dvd; English)
What is it that makes a Jew? In New York, Elie Wiesel, author and survivor of the concentration camps, tries to define it, In London, Nobert Brainin and the Amadeus Quartet carry the argument further, both in words and music. Inevitability the search takes us to Jerusalem, where Dr. Pinches Peli, tenth generation rabbi and fourth generation Jerusalem, explains the meaning of prayer and acts as our guide through the religious schools, the synagogues and a museum for the survivors of the Holocaust
 
Religion In Indonesia: The Way Of The Ancestors (51 min; dvd; English)
There are almost 200 million people scattered across the world who belong to tribal religions that are local, exclusive and frequency animist – i.e., they believe that inanimate objects and natural phenomena process a soul. Through no single group can be chosen as typical, this episode is devoted to primal religions-that of the Torajas who live in a mountain fortress on an Indonesia island
 
(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)
 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

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08 August 2017, 05:30 am
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
 
The Musical Journey of Rabindranath Tagore
Presented by Reba Som

Chair: Shri Suresh Goel
 
Despite having bunked school and formal training, Tagore imbibed multiple cultural influences and his music is a rich amalgam of classical Indian and western, folk, and regional musical styles. The talk will also explain why Rabindrasangeet remains relevant today and why to many it assumes the form of a personal religion
 
Reba Som is a noted academic and singer. Her publications include Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and His Song (Penguin 2009) and Margot: Nivedita of Vivekananda (Penguin Random House, 2017) and her CDs include Select Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (Saregama 2005) and Love Songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam (Times Music 2016)
 

ART MATTERS

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08 August 2017, 05:30 am
ART MATTERS
Programme Type
Discussions
 
 
 
In Conversation
T.M. Krishna with Ananya Vajpeyi
 
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Buddhism in Tibet, Mongolia and Russia

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08 August 2017, 05:30 am
Buddhism in Tibet, Mongolia and Russia
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
 
Speaker: Dr. Lyudmila Klasanova, Researcher and Curator of Buddhist and Asian Arts, National Gallery, Kvadrat 500, Bulgaria and Lecturer, Centre for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Sofia University, Bulgaria
 
 
Chair: Dr. Shashibala, Dean, Centre of Indology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Balkan Soundtracking

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05 August 2017, 05:30 am
Balkan Soundtracking
Programme Type
Talks
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
 

Oh My Soul! (27 min; 2015; dvd; English)

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05 August 2017, 05:30 am
Oh My Soul! (27 min; 2015; dvd; English)

 
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
 

Cultivating Inclusive, Compassionate Tibetan Nationalism: Schooling Passions in the Diaspora

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05 August 2017, 05:30 am
Cultivating Inclusive, Compassionate Tibetan Nationalism: Schooling Passions in the Diaspora
Programme Type
Talks
 
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) 
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