Marcello Nardis (tenor) and Roberto Prosseda (piano)

 

The programme includes: Arias by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

MONDAY 5

 

DISCUSSION  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:00

 

Speakers: Dr Jayan Jose Thomas, Associate Professor of Economics, IIT Delhi; Dr. Kaustav Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU; Dr. Ajay Dandekar, Director, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University; Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, JNU; Prof. Partha  Sen, former Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics; Prof. R. Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and Dr. Reetika Khera, Associate Professor of Economics, IIT Delhi

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

 

 

 

Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia

Edited by Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

 

Discussants: Ms Renana  Jhabvala, Chairperson, SEWA Bharat; Mr. Sher Verick, Deputy Director, International Labour Organisation, New Delhi; and Dr. Saon Ray, Fellow, ICRIER

 

Chair: Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and formerly Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi

 

 

From 09:45 – 10:30 – Cultural Performance

 

From 10:30 to 13:50

Making an Ancient Forest (52 min; 2015; English) – director: Rita Schlamberger

A study on the incredible recovery of the Kalkalpen National Park’s forests in Austria

 

Kaziranga (15 min; 2015; English) – director: Mariah Wilson

The battle between poachers and conservationists in the last stronghold of the endangered Indian Rhino

 

Scavenging Dreams (28 min; 2008; English subtitles) – directors: Jasmine K. Roy & Avinash Roy

The lives of children working as rag-pickers in Delhi

 

The Man who Dwarfed the Mountains (59 min; 2015; English) – directors: Ruchi Srivastava & Sumit Khanna

On the life of Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the first modern environmentalist of India

 

Kiska Jungle, Kiska Mangal? (Whose Forest is It Anyway?; 21 min; 2015; English subtitles) 

Directors: Aditi Saraswat, Akshay Panse, Rameshwar Jirwankar, Sujata Sarkar & Tanvi Khemani

The encroachment of Mumbai government in the forest of Aarey Milk colony

 

From 14:30 onwards

Nagaland is Changing (27 min; 2015; English) – director: Gurmeet  Sapal

A study of the tenuous relationship between man and nature in Nagaland

 

Dongar Dei Paribi Nahin (I cannot give you my forest; 45 min; 2014; English subtitles)

Directors: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl

National award winning film on the mindless destruction of Niyamgiri forest in the name of development

 

Missing (14 min; 2015; English subtitles) – director: Krishnendu Bose

The film follows rural Indian women in their daily fight against climate change impacts

 

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal (Birds with large wings; 113 min; 2015; English subtitles)

Director: Dr. Biju

Through the eyes of a fictional photographer, the film portrays the consequences of a highly toxic pesticide Endosulfan on the people and environment in Kasaragod, Kerala

 

 

Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link and with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, the seventh edition of the festival presents a screening of 17 films. The festival includes national award winning films covering the themes of bio-diversity, waste, climate change, chemicals and sustainability. Directors of some of the films will be present to introduce their films and lead a discussion

 

Inauguration

By Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director-General of TERI – The Energy & Resources Institute, and a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change

 

Followed by a cultural performance

 

From 11:15 to 13:45

More than Honey (91 min; 2012; English subtitles) – Director: Markus Imhoof

The film examines the vexing issue of why bees worldwide are facing extinction

 

Saving the Saviour (27 min; 2016; English) – Director: Jalal Ud Din Baba

The film follows the story of Billa, an orphan boy as he cleans up lake Wular in Kashmir

 

Death by Design (74 min; 2014; English) – Director: Sue Williams

On the threats posed by the electronic industry on environment and human health

 

From 15:05 onwards

Taming the Teesta (16 min; 2015; English) – Director: Taylor Graham

Following the mighty river’s course and the story of those who fight against the rampant hydroelectric development

 

Toxics Trail (26 min; 2015; English & with subtitles) – Director: Ishani Dutta

Focusing on the informal e-waste recycling industry and the environmental and human hazards it creates

 

Hope: Climate Positive Stories From India (30 min; 2015; English) – Directors: Rishu Nigam & Gurmeet Sapal

A collection of uplifting stories highlighting the strength of India’s traditions and ingenuity in addressing climate change

 

Metamorphosis (14 min; 2016; English subtitles) – Director: Adrian Acre

The Guadalupe dam watershed in Mexico which  shelters an endangered amphibian – the mountain Axolotl

 

Bhopal Express (100 min; 1999; English subtitles) – Director: Mahesh Mathai

A powerful drama about a newlywed couple whose lives change forever after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy 

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

 

An exhibition of black and white photographs that interrogates the idea of faith

Photographs by Nilanjan Ray from Kolkata

Monday 28

 

 

 

Talk  ■ Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex at 19:00

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Kruse, is professor in ordinary and director of the Institute of Gerontology (University Heidelberg).The Institute of Gerontology at the University is the leading gerontological institute in the FederalRepublic of Germany and one of the leading institutes in Europe

 

 

 

This presentation argues for the necessity of a comprehensive perspective on old age which integrates developmental potential and vulnerability. This integration is further elucidated in the context of self-understanding and self-design as both a challenge and potential in old age, limit situations and dementia. The following parts of the contribution refer to the ethics of responsibility as an important starting point for a comprehensive understanding of old age, explicate basic positions of an anthropology of old age and suggest a definition of an age-friendly culture as a principal aim of ageing policy and the respective guidance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

Curator: Mr. Nitikorn Kriavixien

 

The exhibition presents a collection of photographs taken by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn during the various visits made by her to India. An avid traveler and writer, the exhibits range from views of the metropolitan cities of Delhi and Mumbai, heritage sites in Rajasthan and Gujarat, educational centres in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Buddhist pilgrimage circuits of Sarnath, Bodh Gaya, Kushinagar, Varanasi, Sanchi as well as Ajanta and Ellora caves

 

Special Screening on Saturday, 26th November 2016 at 6:30 pm in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

 

 

We will re-screen the film the Spanish film “Wrinkles” (Arrugas) which could not be presented during the recently concluded “The IIC Experience: A Festival of the Arts” 

 

 

(89 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)

 

Director: Ignacio Ferreras

 

 

 

Recipient of the Special Distinction Award (Features), Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2012; Goya for Best Screenplay – Adapted & Best Animated Film, Goya Awards 2012; and Mestre Mateo Award for Best Sound, Galician Audiovisual Academy Awards 2011

 

 

 

Feature-length animation from Spain's Ignacio Ferreras looks at hijinks in an old age home, adapted from Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel.

 

 

 

An exceptional animated feature from Spain, Wrinkles imaginatively and sensitively explores one of the major issues confronting most of the developed world: how to look after senior citizens in a rapidly aging population. Following the ups and downs experienced by a retired bank-manager after he moves into a retirement home, this adaptation of Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel represents a far from easy commercial sell. 

 

 

 

Ferreras' debut feature, the film almost entirely takes place in the very un-magical surroundings of an anonymous care-facility and tackles uncomfortable issues. Emilio (voiced by Alvaro Guevara) is a dignified, quietly spoken gent of unspecified advanced years, physically spry but mentally succumbing to the confusions and hallucinations of Alzheimer's. He's placed into a retirement home by his exasperated adult son Juan, where he's shown the ropes by wily, fast-talking Argentinian resident Miguel (Tacho Gonzalez).

 

 

 

Miguel is one of the more alert and astute "clients" of the institution, and thinks nothing of conning small amounts of cash from those more befuddled than himself to Emilio's bemused dismay. The script traces the changing course of Emilio's relationship with his new friend, an unmarried and childless man whose genially cynical façade might perhaps hide a more malevolent streak.

 

 

 

Economically adapted from Roca's critically-acclaimed 2007 text by four scriptwriters including Roca and Ferreras, Wrinkles takes a commendably unsentimental and nuanced approach to a complex subject, one that avoids melodramatic situations and simplistic characterizations while adhering to certain conventions of this particular sub-genre. While Emilio is essentially a well-meaning surrogate for the audience to explore the retirement home's spaces, ways and inmates, Miguel emerges as a fascinating, three-dimensional figure despite this being an old-fashioned example of 2-D animation, executed with 21st century digital technology.

 

 

 

His caustic, acerbic dialogue gives Wrinkles a consistently sharp edge of humour that offsets, but does not trivialize, the sadness and tragedy of such material. There's no shortage of genuine poignancy here and though Nani Garcia's score largely hits conventional, predictable beats, each tear is hard earned and never simply “jerked.” Ferreras' animation style is realistic and direct with close attention paid to tiny specifics of decor, clothing and gesture

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Spain)