Nation, Ethnicity and the Conflict in Afghanistan

By Raghav Sharma (London: Routledge, 2017)

 

Discussants: Shri Shakti Sinha, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library; Prof. Ajay Darshan Behera, Jamia Millia Islamia University; and Ambassador Vivek Katju, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Myanmar and Thailand

 

Chair: Ambassador T.C.A. Rangachari, former Indian Ambassador to Algeria, France and Germany

 

 

 

 

Open Futures- Filmit India

The best films will be screened from the Helen Hamlyn Trust Filmit programme that involves 30 schools from Delhi to make films on the culture of Delhi.  The aim of the project is to promote understanding, care and concern for their heritage amongst schoolchildren

 

(Collaboration: Heritage Education and Communication Service, INTACH)

 

 

Hindustani Vocal – Khayal

By Pt. Naresh Malhotra

Accompanied by Ustad Akhtar Hussain (tabla); and Paromita Mukherjee (harmonium)

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

 

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)

 

 

By Chetan Joshi  from Delhi, disciple of the late Pt Bholanath Prasanna and late Pt Raghunath Seth

 

 

 

 

 

Retrieval of Indian Antiquities from Abroad

Speaker: Dr. D.N. Dimri, Director (Antiquities and Publications), Archaeological Survey of India

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

 

 

Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Shohini Ghosh, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

Nostalgia for the Future is an experimental film essay that explores the conception of the body of the citizen, the nation and the home in modern India. The film is a journey through four distinct imaginations of homes and bodies across examples of buildings built over a century – Laxmi Vilas Palace in Baroda; Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad; the Sabarmati Ashram; and public housing in post-independence Delhi

 

 

 

 

 

By the well-known Portuguese Jazz guitarist, Nuno Marinho

 

(Collaboration: Institute Camoes, Embassy of Portugal)

 

 

 

Directed by Shikha Makan who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Speakers: Bee Rowlatt, author/writer; Deepanjana Pal, writer/journalist; and Shikha Makan
 

In the heart of India’s leading metropolis, single, independent women face housing discrimination because of their status of being ‘unmarried’. ‘Bachelor Girls’, as labelled by the society, struggle to find homes amidst many biases and question the idea of freedom for women in today’s modern world

 

Welcome Address by Shri Ashutosh Dikshit, URJA

 

Speaker: Speakers:   Shreekant Gupta, Institute of Economic Growth Sunita Narain, CSE Laveesh Bhandari, Indicus Foundation

This will be followed by an open dialogue and Q & A on what each of us as individuals and civil society members can do to reduce air pollution levels

 

(Collaboration: Indicus Foundation and URJA)

 

(90 min; 2016; High-definitiion video; Odiya with English subtitles)

A film by Shankhajeet De  

Produced by IGNCA

 

Samayara Chhaire or In the shadow of time is a feature length documentary film that explores the journey of Ravana Chhaya, the shadow puppetry form practiced in Odisha. It is popular for its interplay of translucent and dark shadows and the use of lyrical Odiya poetic rendition of Ramayana. The film puts forward an persuasive voice of the present day puppeteers reflecting upon the changes the tradition has undergone in the last over 40 years in the name of keeping it alive

 

(Collaboration: Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust)