Speaker: Prof. Amit Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and currently Research Professor, Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener Working Group on Alternative Strategies 

 

Prof. Amit Bhaduri’s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. His contribution as an economic theorist lies in challenging the mainstream theory and analyzing the role of power in the market economy in a precise and yet compelling way

 

The lecture commemorates 25 years of the Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

Digital India

Keynote address: Shri J. S. Deepak, Secretary & Chairman, Department of Telecommunications; and Shri Alok Kumar, Adviser, Niti Aayog

 

Chair: Shri Vinay Shankar, Secretary, Dept of Telecommunications

  

  

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

(23 min; 2016;dvd; English)

 

 

Director: Vijay Rana who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A hundred years ago in 1917, Mahatma Gandhi set up what was going to be his Karmabhumi, Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. It was from here he decided to wake up India and shake the world in a gentle way. This documentary sheds light on Gandhi’s life in the Ashram and has a rare eyewitness account of the famous Salt March by one of his disciples, Sumangal Prakash who was one of the 79 Ashram residents Gandhi selected as his co-marchers

 

TUESDAY 7

 

 

The Pundaquit Virtuouso is a unique community arts programme of Casa San Miguel in San Antonio Zambales which has been training the local youth, largely from the fishing community, in classical music and the arts

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Philippines)

 

By Shovana Narayan and her disciples

 

A tribute to the late Shri Vasant Sathe on the occasion of his birth anniversary 

 

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Utsav Samiti)

 

 

 

An exhibition of sculptures in wood and bronze; and drawings

By Shakti Maira

 

Inauguration by Shri Krishen Khanna on Saturday, 4th March 2017 at 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, on Friday 10 March 2017 at 18:00 in Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamaladevi Complex

The Promise of Beauty & Why It Matters 

Launch of Shakti Maira’s new book (HarperCollins; 2017) with Anjolie Ela Menon, Ashok Vajpeyi, Vandana Shiva and Geeta Chandran

 

Following the launch, at 19:00 in the Art Gallery

Beauty: The Frontiers Within

Dancer Geeta Chandran will present a performance inspired by Shakti Maira’s book

 

An exhibition of sketches by Poonam Bevli Sahi

 

Preview on Thursday, 2nd March 2017 at 18:30

 

Through lyrical metaphors inspired by the circus and everything extraordinary and unusual that surround its characters, Poonam comments on life while juxtaposing the mundane with wonder

 

 

 

 

13TH IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: 2ND TO 4TH  MARCH 2017

The 13th edition of the festival will show case the work of women filmmakers of Asian origin, living anywhere in the world. The festival brings together a collection of films and sound works, that cut across genres and have narratives that can reshape the way we imagine cinema to be. The festival includes a selection of fifty-six films and five sound works from 17 countries - Jordan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Israel, India, Palestine, Thailand, Pakistan, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Spain, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, UK, Cameroon, Philippines, USA, Bangladesh, Turkey and Canada; a curated section on Animated films; a curated section on Artists’ film and video; the 4th edition of Soundfiles; and two seminars. 

 

Organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio &Television, India Chapter; Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan; UNESCO, New Delhi Office; and with the support of ONGC

 

Screenings will be held in the Auditorium on 2, 3 and 4 March 2017 from 10:00 onwards. Some of the highlights include films such as Harikatha Prasanga (India) by Ananya Kasaravalli; Soz: A Ballad of Maladies (India) by Tushar Madhav & Sarvnik Kaur; Here the Seats are Vacant (Iran) by Shiva Sanjari; Velvet Revolution (India) by Nupur Basu; Baglar (Turkey) by Berke Bas & Melis Birder; League of Exotique Dancers (Canada) by Rama Rau; Untitled (Pakistan) by Yaminay Chaudhuri; Demos (Thailand) by Danaya Chulphuthiphong; Fricht Grutzhic Nhadjim (Palestine) by Ruba Salameh; Mao Shan Wang (Singapore) by Khym Fong; and Slider (japan) by Maki Satake; among others

 

Screenings will be followed by discussions with the directors presents

 

For detail screening schedule, kindly please log onto www.iawrtindia.blogspot.in and www.iicdelhi.in

TALK  ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00

 

 

Followed by

B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture 2017

Truth and Politics in Our Times

To be delivered by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research

 

Followed by a panel discussion:

Panelists: Yogendra Yadav, National President, Swaraj Abhiyan; and Ashok Malik, columnist and Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation

 

Moderator: Arati R. Jerath, political commentator

 

(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)