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Topi ki Dastaan (100 min)

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04 July 2017, 05:30 am
Topi ki Dastaan (100 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
 
Topi ki Dastaan (100 min)
Presented by Wings Cultural Society
 
Based on a popular Hindi novel, Topi Shukla, written in the 1960s by Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza. It has been adapted by Wings Cultural Society in the ‘Dastaan Narration Form’. Through storytelling Wings has recreated the turbulence between ‘Topi’ and ‘Iffan’, childhood friends, who have grown up in an independent cultural environment before the great divide that was the result of the creation of the two nations. 
 
Through dialogue, the scenario of fear and horror between the two communities is recreated 
 

The Tiger Who Crossed the Line

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03 July 2017, 05:30 am
The Tiger Who Crossed the Line
 
 
 
(45 min; 2016; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Presented, Written, Edited & Directed by Krishnendu Bose who will introduce the film
 
Recipient of the National Award for Best Film on Environment, National Film Awards 2016
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
As the world sleeps, in the dead of night, ghost like figures of big cats roam the fringes of the villages and the cities. They are the tigers who live outside the tiger reserves. And they are in trouble
 

GCC (GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL) IN CRISIS

16 June 2017, 05:30 am
GCC (GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL) IN CRISIS
Programme Type
Discussions

PANELISTS: SHRI RANJAN MATHAI, FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY;  SMT. DEEPA WADHWA, FORMER INDIAN AMBASSADOR; DR. JOHN CHERIAN, CHIEF OF BUREAU, THE FRONTLINE; PROFESSOR GULSHAN DIETL, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY; DR. PRASANTA KUMAR PRADHAN, ASSOCIATE FELLOW, IDSA (INSTITUTE OF DEFENCE STUDIES AND ANALYSES); AND OTHERS

MODERATOR: PROFESSOR K.P. FABIAN, ISIL (INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) (FORMER AMBASSADOR TO QATAR)

To Mark World Environment Day 2017

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05 June 2017, 05:30 am
To Mark World Environment Day 2017
Programme Type
Talks
'Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi-2025'  
 
 
Speakers:
Dr Sudha Vasan, Associate Professor in Sociology, Delhi University
Ms Bharati Chaturvedi, Founder and Director, Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Dr Ghazala Shahabuddin, Senior Scientist, Centre for Ecology, Development and Research (CEDAR), New Delhi 
Prof C. R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environment Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) Delhi University
Shri Gaurav Dubey, Programme Manager, Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility Programme, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
 
Chair: Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi 
 
This series is dedicated to the memory of Shri M. N. Buch, civil servant and environmentalist, who passed away on 6 June in 2015 and who had given the key-note address at the inaugural edition of the Dialogue in 2013.  

Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)

30 June 2017, 05:30 am
Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)
 
Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)
Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
 
A documentary about Mohiniattam, a classical dance of Kerala 
 
To be introduced by Shri Veejay Sai, performing arts critic
 

Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)

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29 June 2017, 05:30 am
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
 
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
A play based on Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography, Kaghazi hai Pairahan, and other stories
 
Written and directed by Noor Zaheer and presented by Brechtian Mirror and Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)
 
The play explores Ismat Chughtai (1915 -1991), the writer, the individual, the person and the woman and bringing them all together in a collage puts across the times, the courage and the depth of social understanding that produced a story teller of the calibre of Ismat Chughtai
 
 

Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)

29 June 2017, 05:30 am
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
THURSDAY 29
 
PERFORMANCE  ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM  AT 18:30
 
A play based on Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography, Kaghazi hai Pairahan, and other stories
 
Written and directed by Noor Zaheer and presented by Brechtian Mirror and Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)
 
The play explores Ismat Chughtai (1915 -1991), the writer, the individual, the person and the woman and bringing them all together in a collage puts across the times, the courage and the depth of social understanding that produced a story teller of the calibre of Ismat Chughtai
 
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

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28 June 2017, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
 
 
 
The Mothers of Manipur – Twelve Women Who Made History
By Teresa Rehman (New Delhi: Zubaan, 2017)
 
Discussants: Dr. Lianboi Vaiphei, Professor, Political Science Department, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi; Ms. Pamela Phillipose, Editor, The Wire; ; Dr. Seema Kazi, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (T)
 
Chair: Ms. Preeti Gill, Editor & Literary Agent

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

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28 June 2017, 05:30 am
SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
 
SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain
 
La Sylphide (62 min; dvd)
August Bournonville’s ballet in two acts
The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
The Danish Orchestra; Conductor: Poul J?rgensen
With Lis Jeppesen, Nikolaj Hübbe, Sorella Englund, Morten Munksdorf

Praful Bidwai Memorial Award

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23 June 2017, 05:30 am
Praful Bidwai Memorial Award
Programme Type
Talks
 
Praful Bidwai  Memorial Award
Presentation of the Award 
Followed by a lecture by Dr. Satyajit Rath, Senior Researcher and former faculty, National Institute of Immunology
 
(Collaboration: Praful Bidwai Memorial Committee)
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