Angadh Raaste: Media Kshetra Mein Agman…Evam Alvida

Book by Rami Chhabra, translated by Deepali Brahmi (National Book Trust, 2018)

The book will be released by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Life Trustee, IIC

Followed by a panel discussion on the book and the social issues it raises: Yeh aaj kyon aise, kuch kar saken toh kaise?

Discussants: Dr. Alok Mehta, former President, Editor’s Guild; Dr. Neerja Chowdhary, veteran journalist; Dr. Madhu Kishwar, Founder-Editor, Manushi; Anita and Kalyan Paul, Co-founders, Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation; Ms Rami Chhabra, author of the book; Ms Deepali Brahmi, translator of the book

Exploring Indian Modernities

A discussion and release of a book edited by Professor Leïla Choukroune and Dr. Parul Bhandari

Introductory Remarks

Prof. Leïla Choukroune and Dr. Parul Bhandari

Multidisciplinary and Longitudinal Perspectives

in Conversation with Prof. Balveer Arora; Prof. Jayati Ghosh; Prof. Savita Singh; Dr Simona Sawhney

This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities. The two broad foci in this book are: (a) The dynamism of modern institutions in India, delineating the specific ways in which ideas of modernity have come to define these institutions and how institutional innovations have shaped modernities; and (b) perspectives on every day practices of modernities and the cultural constituents of being modern

An Evening of Poetry and Translation

Launch of Samay ki Kasak – poems by Sukrita Paul Kumar, poet, academic and former Chairperson, Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, University of Delhi

Translations by Rekha Seth, author, translator and educationist

Discussants: Gagan Gill and Leeladhar Mandaloi

Chair: K. Satchidananda, poet, critic and former Secretary, Sahitya Akademi

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

The Making of Modern Kashmir

Speaker: Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Dr. B.M. Pande

Dr. Kaul will speak on the connected histories of Kashmir using testimonies from the Rajatarangini and other material culture

Towards an Unperfect Swaraj: Life and Art of Priya Ravish Mehra

Panelists: Amba Sanyal, theatre artist, costume designer; Shruti Vohra, Editor of Priya's work in progress on Rafoogars; E.P. Unny, Chief Political Cartoonist, The Indian Express

Moderator: Dr. Rizio Yohannan

(Collaboration: Lila Foundation)

Imminent Water Crisis

Inaugural Address by

Hon'ble Shri. Suresh Prabhu,

Minister for Civil Aviation, Commerce and Industry, Government of India

former Chairman of Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers & Chairman of the South Asia Water conference

Keynote Address by

Shri. Amitabh Kant,

CEO, NITI Aayog, Government of India

Panellists:

Dr. (Prof) P.B. Sharma,

President, Association of Indian Universities & VC, Amity University

Dr. A.C. Kamaraj,

Expert Member-Inter Linking of Rivers, Government of India

(Collaboration: Foundation for Peace, Harmony and Good Governance)

Korean Peninsula in an Evolving Indo Pacific: Special Strategic Partnership Between India And Republic of Korea

Panelists: H.E. Mr. Shin Bongkil, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea; and Ambassador Skand Tayal, former Indian Ambassador to Republic of Korea

Moderator: Ambassador Suresh K Goel

(Collaboration: India-Republic of Korea Friendship Society)

DOCUMENTARY BEARS WITNESS: TRAVELLING FILM SOUTHASIA 2018- A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

Trembling Mountain (Nepal)

(83 min; 2016; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: KesangTseten

On April 25, 2015 Nepal was hit by a quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Among the worst hit was the prime trekking destination of Langtang. A glacial collapse caused an avalanche of rock, ice and mud, resulting in an air blast, equal to half the force of the Hiroshima atom bomb. A story of destruction and loss, slowly replaced by rebuilding and hope

At 12:40

Overruled (Afghanistan)

(52 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Fernaz

Overruled recounts the lives and hopes of young Afghan refugees in Iran. Working as ball boys in tennis clubs in Teheran, they become proficient enough in the game to compete in competitions. But continue to be viewed as outsiders in the eyes of the Iranians and are faced with the constant threat of detention and deportation

At 14:00

Lock and Key (India)

(83 min; 2017; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Shilpi Gulati

A story told with compassion and kindness of the families of five men in Punjab recovering from the rampant drug problem in the state. While they struggle to establish new relationships with their pasts, their partners strive to redefine the meaning of love and the labour of everyday life

At 15:30

The Shepherdess of the Glaciers (India)

(74 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Stanzin Dorjai, Christiane Mordelet

Way up in Ladakh at 16,500 feet, lives a shepherdess with a flock of 250 sheep and pashmina goats on a huge deserted rock-strewn mountain. Documented by her brother over four seasons, the film depicts both her world of icy loneliness and the unbreakable bond between humans and animals

From 17:00 to 18:30

Conversations on Documentary As Protest

A conversation with leading documentary filmmakers – Pankaj Butalia, Sanjay Kak, Vani Subramaniam, Nakul Singh Sawhney

Introduction: Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor & Associate Dean, New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication

At 18:40

Soz: A Ballad of Maladies (India)

(85 min; 2016; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Directors: Tushar Madhav, Sarvnik Kaur

Of folk, rock and hip-hop, this documentary captures the rhythm and blues of resistance in the Kashmir valley

DOCUMENTARY BEARS WITNESS: TRAVELLING FILM SOUTHASIA 2018 - A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

Rasan Piya (India)

(80 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Niharika Popli

The story of an extraordinary musician, poet and teacher, Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan who represented the 16th generation of Miyan Tansen’s lineage. He continued to compose, teach, travel and perform across India until his death in February 2016 at the age of 107 years

At 19:30

Among the Believers (Pakistan)

(84 min; 2015; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Directors: Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Ali Naqvi

Charismatic cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter and Taliban ally, is waging jihad against the Pakistani state. His dream is to impose a strict version of Shariah law throughout the country, as a model for the world. Among the Believers follows Aziz on his very personal quest to create an Islamic utopia, during the bloodiest period in Pakistan’s modern history

DOCUMENTARY BEARS WITNESS: TRAVELLING FILM SOUTHASIA 2018- A FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARIES

Is it Too Much to Ask (India)

(30 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Leena Manimekalai

Is it Too Much to Ask follows the journey of two friends, Smile and Glady, looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in the process for being single and for being transgender women. A delicate documentary that treats a sensitive subject with lightness while exposing society’s prejudices

At 18:40

32 Souls (Myanmar)

(25 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sai Naw Kham

A quietly poetic work on the rhythms of daily life, of mortality, and the persistence of memory in Myanmar

At 19:15

Fireflies in the Abyss (India)

(88 min; 2015; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Chandrasekhar Reddy

In the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India, boys and men descend into the abyss of the 'rat-holes' to scratch coal out of hard rock, with nothing more than a pickaxe and a head-torch. One of them is Suraj, an 11-year old boy. Born in the mines to Nepali immigrants, Suraj cherishes the hope of getting out of the coal-pit someday. But despite the hardships and pain of separation, we see pride, generosity and sacrifice

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