Jagor (120 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sangram Singh Gaikwad

The story of Manav, the brightest son of the biggest land owner of a village, who takes up farming as a profession while  his siblings flee the village for the bright lights of the city as do most of the villagers 

 

Digant (Boundless)

(110 min; 2012; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Dhyanesh Moghe

About the Gowli community of Goa that challenges the notion of stability and freedom

 

Organised in collaboration with Goenkarancho Ekvot, Delhi
 

Mortoo 

(108 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Jitendra Shikerkar

Recipient of the Award for Best Screenplay, 7th Goa State Film Festival

A black comedy about a villager who comes up with a unique cremation insurance scheme

 

Speaker: Professor Alok Rai is a prominent writer and speaker. He has taught English at IIT Delhi and Delhi University, translated Munshi Premchand, and authored Hindi Nationalism and Orwell and the Politics of Despair

 

Speaker: Professor Alok Rai is a prominent writer and speaker. He has taught English at IIT Delhi and Delhi University, translated Munshi Premchand, and authored Hindi Nationalism and Orwell and the Politics of Despair

 

 

 

Speaker: Professor Alok Rai is a prominent writer and speaker. He has taught English at IIT Delhi and Delhi University, translated Munshi Premchand, and authored Hindi Nationalism and Orwell and the Politics of Despair

 

Dr. Manisha Sethi, Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Prof. Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley in conversation with Akshaya Mukul author of Gita Press and The Making of Hindi India (Noida: HarperCollins, 2015)

 

CANCELLED

By Priya Kanungo from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Rajan Misra and Pt. Sajan Mishra

 

Speaker: Dr. Latika Bhalla, Senior Paediatrician, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital 

 

Chair: Dr. Raman Kapur, well known acupuncturist and Head, Department of Acupuncture, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

 

A discussion on Ranabir Chakravarti’s book

 

Discussants: Prof. K.M. Shrimali, formerly Department of History, University of Delhi; Prof. R. Mahalakshmi, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University;  Prof. Susmita Basu Majumdar, Dept. of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta; and Dr. Snigdha Singh, Department of History, Miranda House

 

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Ranabir Chakravarti is Professor of Ancient History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The book offers a broad overview and connected narrative of early Indian history, taking into consideration major historical developments from the earliest times to c. AD 1300