Release and discussion of a book by Aditya Malik, Professor and Dean, School of Historical Studies, Nalanda University, published by Oxford University Press, New York

 

Dr. Gopa Sabharwal, Vice-Chancellor of Nalanda University, will inaugurate the book release

 

A short lecture with slides by the author introducing the book will precede the discussion and reading.
 

Discussants: Professor Molly Kaushal, Professor of Performance Studies and Head, Janapada Sampada, IGNCA
 
Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, Delhi University, writer, poet and artist

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Speaker: Dr V. K. Saraswat, Member, Niti Aayog

 

Chair: Prof D. P. Agrawal, Former Chairman, UPSC

 

(Collaboration: Climate Change Research Institute)

 

Discussion on Indraprastha: The Poetic Work of Upendra Kumar

 

Discussants: Dr. Ganga Prasad Vimal; Shri Leeladhar Mandol; Prof. VishwanathTripathi; and Shri Madan Kashyap

Chair: Shri Manager Pandey

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

THE DISCUSSION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO TUESDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER 2016

Geeti Sen in conversation with Krishen Khanna

 

In creative expression the process becomes as significant as the initial idea.  Invariably the results are not what were originally planned! In this dialogue Geeti Sen will be in conversation with Krishen Khanna in exploring the genesis of ideas and his explorations in drawing and on the final canvas

 

What You Don’t See is Worse Than What You See!

Series moderator: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

 

Keynote Speaker: Shri J.K. Dadoo, IAS, Additional Secretary, Govt. of India

 

Panelists: Ms Lesley Onyon, Regional Advisor, World Health Organisation (WHO-SEARO), New Delhi; Dr. A.K. Ambasht, IFS, Vice-President, Health Environment Foundation; Dr. T.K. Joshi, Occupational & Environment Health Consultant; and Dr. Jayashree Gupta, IAS (Retd.), President, Consumers India

 

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

 

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14:30
Cities of Sleep (India)
(74 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Shaunak Sen

 

Cities of Sleep is set in a world where just being able to secure a good night’s sleep often becomes a matter of life and death

 

AT 16:00 

My Name is Salt (India)

(92 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Farida Pacha

 

Multiple award winner including Golden Award for Medium Film, Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2015; First Appearance Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2015; Golden Conch for Best International Documentary Film/Video Above 60 minutes & International Jury Award for Best Cinematography, Mumbai International Documentary, Short and Animation Film Festival 2016; Best Documentary Feature Film & EDA Award-Special Commendation, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014; among many others

 

The desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sqkms of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water, electricity or provisions – tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape

 

AT 18:00 

Phum Shang (Floating Life; India)

(52 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Haobam Paban Kumar

 

Loktak, the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, characterised by its unique floating biomass phumdi, is the primary source of livelihood for the fishermen who live on huts built on the phumdis. Today it is considered a dying lake

 

AT 19:00 

A Walnut Tree (Pakistan)

(81 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Ammar Aziz

 

Recipient of the Ram Bahadur Trophy, Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2015

 

An old man reminisces about a distant homeland. He wants to return. Internally displaced from Swat as a result of the ongoing conflict between the Pakistan army and the Taliban and forced to live in a camp, the family is caught between memories of what life was, an insecure present and a bleak future

 

 

TRAVELLING FILM SOUTH ASIA 2016 – A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

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Drawing the Tiger (Nepal)

(92 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Ramyata Limbu, Amy Benson, Scott Squire

 

The UNICEF Award for Best Film on Children’s Issues, Film South Asia Festival, Kathmandu 2015

 

Filmed over seven years, Drawing the Tiger is an intimate portrait of a family in Nepal who get a chance to break their cycle of poverty

 

AT 19:40 

Accesex (India)

(52 min; 2013; dvd; English and with subtitles)

Directed by Shweta Ghosh who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Beautiful. Ugly. Complete. Incomplete. Able. Disabled. Within stifling dichotomies of normal and abnormal, lie millions of women negotiating with their identities. This film explores notions of beauty, the ‘ideal body’ and sexuality through four storytellers

 

 

TRAVELLING FILM SOUTH ASIA 2016 – A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

 

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Tyres (Burma)

(30 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Kyaw Myo Lwin

 

Recipient of the Kathmandu Post Award for Student Film, Film South Asia Festival, Kathmandu 2015; Best Student Film & Best Student Cinematography Award at Palm Springs International Short Film Festival

 

A tyre recycling workshop in South Okkalapa in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon is a site of multiple uses and multiple deaths.  Filmed almost entirely in black-and-white, this observational documentary gently explores a community of tyre cutters and recyclers

 

AT 19:00

Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves It’s Trail; India)

(93 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Iffat Fatima 

 

 Khoon Diy Baarav  explores memory as a mode of resistance, constantly confronting reality and morphing from the personal to the political, the individual to the collective

 

A festival of 10 exceptional nonfiction films from South Asia produced in the last two years. The festival encapsulates a flavour of the Subcontinent with films from Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The festival includes the award winners of Film South Asia Festival 2015, Kathmandu as well as other films selected to showcase the variety, treatment and intensity that marks the world of Southasian documentary and non-fiction. In the words of Film South Asia 2015 Jury “the jury recognizes that it is the human agency that opens up the space for dialogue, dissent and democratic engagement. And documentary is the best manifestation of this agency”. Organised in collaboration with The Southasian Trust, Kathmandu
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Introduction

By Ms Mitu Varma, Director Film South Asia, Kathmandu

 

Followed by

News from Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

(28 min; 2014; dvd; English and with subtitles)

Director: Kannan Arunasalam

 

A young reporter dares to cover press freedom in one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists – Sri Lanka

 

AT 19:00

The Journey Within (Pakistan)

(86 min; 2014; dvd; English and with subtitles)

Director: Mian Adnan Ahmad

 

Post 9/11 and in the midst of various challenges faced by Pakistan, a quest for self-identity leads the inspirational journey of a music show to help reclaim the rich and vast musical heritage of this region

 

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Shubha Mudgal in conversation with S. Kalidas

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)