INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Identification of Water Harvesting and Associated Hydraulic Structures at Narnaul

Speaker: Dr. Akshat Kumar Kaushik, Assistant Archaeologist, Chandigarh Circle, A.S.I. He has participated in several excavations like Sravasti (U.P), Dholavira (Gujrat) & Purana Qila (Delhi). He has conducted several explorations in the states of Haryana & Punjab. Presently he is involved in a village to village survey along the dried-up bed of River Saraswati from Adi Badri to Distt. Sirsa (upto Haryana – Rajasthan border). He is the author of Ancient Indian Town Planning: A Journey Across Two Urbanisation

Chair: Shri D.N. Dimri

 

Narnaul is a historical town located in the south western part of Haryana, characterised by dry-land topography--an ensemble of terrain features associated with semi-arid to arid environment.  A number of monuments of the medieval period dot its landscape.  Of these, the most interesting are the water bodies. The reasons for the presence of a large number and variety of water bodies cannot be studied in isolation. They need to be looked at in context of their environmental setting and landscape, in order to better understand their functionality and usage. The talk examines the reasons and justifications for the creation of these monumental structures, their strategic location and role in the subsequent development of the town. A physical survey and GPS mapping of the whole area in and around Narnaul, including sources of water, their courses and channels brought out ways in which the natural topography was exploited and harnessed as a part of the water harvesting system that was the lifeline of the Medieval town 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Identification of Water Harvesting and Associated Hydraulic Structures at Narnaul

Speaker: Dr. Akshat Kumar Kaushik, Assistant Archaeologist, Chandigarh Circle, A.S.I. He has participated in several excavations like Sravasti (U.P), Dholavira (Gujrat) & Purana Qila (Delhi). He has conducted several explorations in the states of Haryana & Punjab. Presently he is involved in a village to village survey along the dried-up bed of River Saraswati from Adi Badri to Distt. Sirsa (upto Haryana – Rajasthan border). He is the author of Ancient Indian Town Planning: A Journey Across Two Urbanisation

 

Narnaul is a historical town located in the south western part of Haryana, characterised by dry-land topography--an ensemble of terrain features associated with semi-arid to arid environment.  A number of monuments of the medieval period dot its landscape.  Of these, the most interesting are the water bodies. The reasons for the presence of a large number and variety of water bodies cannot be studied in isolation. They need to be looked at in context of their environmental setting and landscape, in order to better understand their functionality and usage. The talk examines the reasons and justifications for the creation of these monumental structures, their strategic location and role in the subsequent development of the town. A physical survey and GPS mapping of the whole area in and around Narnaul, including sources of water, their courses and channels brought out ways in which the natural topography was exploited and harnessed as a part of the water harvesting system that was the lifeline of the Medieval town 

Employment – The Big Picture

Speakers: Dr. Surjit S. Bhalla, Advisor, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister; Shri Mahesh Vyas, Managing Director and CEO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd

 

 Chairman: Shri Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, Niti  Aayog

 

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

PSBT-DOORDARSHAN OPEN FRAME FILM FESTIVAL: 14 TO 18 SEPTEMBER 2018

 

The eighteenth edition of Open Frame Film Festival presents an exciting and important line up of new voices, films, conversations and workshops. The Festival will engage with the documentary form and its myriad manifestations: the stories documentaries tell and how, the artistic and political processes and impulses that shape them and how they impact the spaces in which they are authored and articulated. Highlights of the festival include presentation in effective storytelling using the best of public service television from around the world – Mini-INPUT; a special international showcase Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad; a conversation with Masters of Cinema Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal; 26 PSBT films, most of them in partnership with Doordarshan; a package of short films engaging with sexualities; and panel discussions exploring narratives from India’s hinterland, conversations on death and dying, the joy of learning and bringing together voices of young filmmakers on documentary practice. The screenings will be followed by discussions with  filmmakers present

 

The festival includes workshops, discussions, and conversations. For details of the festival and screening schedules, kindly please log onto www.psbt.org and www.iicdelhi.in

 

The festival includes workshops, discussions, and conversations. For details of the festival and screening schedules, kindly please log onto www.psbt.org and www.iicdelhi.in

 

 

(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust; Doordarshan; Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan; and INPUT)

The State of Higher Education in India

Speaker: Professor John Varghese, Principal, St. Stephen’s College

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

The State of Higher Education in India

 

Speaker: Professor John Varghese, Principal, St. Stephen’s College

 

 

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

 

 

Prof. Varghese taught English at St. Stephen’s college in the 1990s. He was Head, Department of Communications at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, before taking over as Principal.

 

 

 

The state of higher education leaves much to be desired. The distinguished speaker will draw attention to the challenges the nation faces in this regard

 

 

MINI-INPUT: BEST OF PUBLIC TELEVISION

 

Screenings And Discussions

(INPUT is the consortium of International Public Service Broadcasters)

 

The presentation will showcase some of the best public service broadcasting films and programmes from around the world, exploring unconventional and new ways of telling stories. It will emphasise the role of documentaries in public service broadcasting and the ways in which the agendas of broadcasting need to and can be expanded in keeping with the digital revolution. 

 

Iris Yudai and Deniz Sertkol will lead the analyses and discussions around the films and programmes.

 

Iris Yudai is an Executive Producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Manitoba, responsible for commissioning and overseeing documentaries with independent producers and programming the summer TV series Absolutely Manitoba. She is also a trainer and mentor, regularly leading training sessions for television, radio and digital producers. She has extensive experience in facilitating development sessions for programmers and presenting workshops on writing and storytelling. She has also led the development and production of several radio programmes, on CBC Radio One

 

Deniz Sertkol works for the Film, TV and Radio Department of the Goethe-Institut Headquarters in Munich and is involved with monitoring and coordinating operations across various German public radio and public television companies. She has earlier worked at the Feature Film and TV Film Department at the Franco-German Channel ARTE G.E.I.E. and for several film festivals, including Berlinale Forum, Berlin Critics‘ Week and Filmfest Munich. She has also free-lanced as film critic for several years

 

Inauguration: ABHIJIT DASGUPTA, National Coordinator, INPUT

 

Abhijit Dasgupta has been associated with news since the early 60s and with television from the early 90s. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India and also trained at BBC London; AIBD Malaysia; NDR Germany and ABC Australia. He was Station Director, Doordarshan; Bureau Chief, Worldwide Television News; Production-in-Charge, ESPN; and Production Head, NDTV and Aajtak for their election telecasts. His films have received two National and twenty eight international awards. Abhijit is the National coordinator for India and a past Board Member of International Public Television

 

Films

Three Thousand ( ‘Asinnajaq; 14 min; Canada) 

Director: Isabella-Rose Weetaluktuk 

 

‘My father was born in a spring igloo—half snow, half skin. I was born in a hospital, with jaundice and two teeth.’ With quiet command, the young Inuk artist plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe – of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the past, present and future of Inuit in a radiant new light. Delving into the NFB’s vast archive, she casts a net across the complicated history of Inuit cinematic representation, harvesting fleeting truths and fortuitous accidents from a range of sources.

 

Human Smugglers (59 min; Denmark) 

Directors: Poul-Erik Heilbuth, Georg Larsen

 

For the first-time human smugglers reveal – on camera and unmasked – the secrets of their trade. The Film offers a real picture of the industry that has brought millions of migrants to Europe. It gives us the chance to open doors that have been closed for years and see the whole debate from a quite new angle.

 

(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)

 

To mark the 27th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990

 

Discussion on 'Is Indian media under siege?'

Speakers: Ms Pamela Philipose, Public Editor, The Wire; Shri Om Thanvi, Consulting Editor, Patrika Group; Shri Vinod Sharma, Political Editor, Hindustan Times; Shri L K Sharma, veteran journalist  

 

Moderator: Suhas Borker

 

Is Indian media being manipulated? Is dissent being expunged? Is there an "undeclared emergency”? Has censorship and managing the headlines given way to something more insidious? Are fake news and troll factories and assembly lines of Goebbelsian tweets and violent threats subverting democratic processes?  Is media being polarised against itself?  

 

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar) 

Fire to Fire From Dawn to Dusk: North East India’s Vanishing Way of Life

An exhibition of photographs by Shyamal Datta from Shillong

 

Preview on Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 18:30

 

In this collection, the metaphoric day starts when the family wakes up at dawn and lights the central fire at the hearth. Food is cooked and eaten after which all members leave the house for the hills to tend to their crops. At sunset, the family returns and light up their hearth once again to eat, drink and be happy together, before the cycle starts again the following day. An exhibition that visually records a fascinating, unique way of life for posterity – a way that is confronting the contradictions of modernity

 

The Best of Dharamshala International Film Festival: 10 to 12 September 2018

 

The Swallow (Switzerland)

(102 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Mano Khalil

 

In this delicate, tragic drama, Mira, a young, bored Swiss woman, goes in search of her father in Iraqi Kurdistan – a father she has only ever seen in a few photographs but whom she has placed on a pedestal…