Topi ki Dastaan (100 min)
04 July 2017, 05:30 am
Topi ki Dastaan (100 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
Topi ki Dastaan (100 min)
Presented by Wings Cultural Society
Based on a popular Hindi novel, Topi Shukla, written in the 1960s by Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza. It has been adapted by Wings Cultural Society in the ‘Dastaan Narration Form’. Through storytelling Wings has recreated the turbulence between ‘Topi’ and ‘Iffan’, childhood friends, who have grown up in an independent cultural environment before the great divide that was the result of the creation of the two nations.
Through dialogue, the scenario of fear and horror between the two communities is recreated
The Tiger Who Crossed the Line
03 July 2017, 05:30 am
The Tiger Who Crossed the Line
(45 min; 2016; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Presented, Written, Edited & Directed by Krishnendu Bose who will introduce the film
Recipient of the National Award for Best Film on Environment, National Film Awards 2016
Screening will be followed by a discussion
As the world sleeps, in the dead of night, ghost like figures of big cats roam the fringes of the villages and the cities. They are the tigers who live outside the tiger reserves. And they are in trouble
GCC (GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL) IN CRISIS
16 June 2017, 05:30 am
PANELISTS: SHRI RANJAN MATHAI, FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY; SMT. DEEPA WADHWA, FORMER INDIAN AMBASSADOR; DR. JOHN CHERIAN, CHIEF OF BUREAU, THE FRONTLINE; PROFESSOR GULSHAN DIETL, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY; DR. PRASANTA KUMAR PRADHAN, ASSOCIATE FELLOW, IDSA (INSTITUTE OF DEFENCE STUDIES AND ANALYSES); AND OTHERS
MODERATOR: PROFESSOR K.P. FABIAN, ISIL (INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) (FORMER AMBASSADOR TO QATAR)
GCC (GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL) IN CRISIS
Programme Type
Discussions
PANELISTS: SHRI RANJAN MATHAI, FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY; SMT. DEEPA WADHWA, FORMER INDIAN AMBASSADOR; DR. JOHN CHERIAN, CHIEF OF BUREAU, THE FRONTLINE; PROFESSOR GULSHAN DIETL, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY; DR. PRASANTA KUMAR PRADHAN, ASSOCIATE FELLOW, IDSA (INSTITUTE OF DEFENCE STUDIES AND ANALYSES); AND OTHERS
MODERATOR: PROFESSOR K.P. FABIAN, ISIL (INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) (FORMER AMBASSADOR TO QATAR)
To Mark World Environment Day 2017
05 June 2017, 05:30 am
To Mark World Environment Day 2017
Programme Type
Talks
'Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi-2025'
Speakers:
Dr Sudha Vasan, Associate Professor in Sociology, Delhi University
Ms Bharati Chaturvedi, Founder and Director, Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Dr Ghazala Shahabuddin, Senior Scientist, Centre for Ecology, Development and Research (CEDAR), New Delhi
Prof C. R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environment Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) Delhi University
Shri Gaurav Dubey, Programme Manager, Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility Programme, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
Chair: Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi
This series is dedicated to the memory of Shri M. N. Buch, civil servant and environmentalist, who passed away on 6 June in 2015 and who had given the key-note address at the inaugural edition of the Dialogue in 2013.
Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)
30 June 2017, 05:30 am
Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)
Dance of the Enchantress (India/France; 72 min; 2008; DVD; with English subtitles)
Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A documentary about Mohiniattam, a classical dance of Kerala
To be introduced by Shri Veejay Sai, performing arts critic
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
29 June 2017, 05:30 am
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
A play based on Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography, Kaghazi hai Pairahan, and other stories
Written and directed by Noor Zaheer and presented by Brechtian Mirror and Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)
The play explores Ismat Chughtai (1915 -1991), the writer, the individual, the person and the woman and bringing them all together in a collage puts across the times, the courage and the depth of social understanding that produced a story teller of the calibre of Ismat Chughtai
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
29 June 2017, 05:30 am
Kahani ki Kahani, Ismat ki Zubaani (70 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
THURSDAY 29
PERFORMANCE ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30
A play based on Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography, Kaghazi hai Pairahan, and other stories
Written and directed by Noor Zaheer and presented by Brechtian Mirror and Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)
The play explores Ismat Chughtai (1915 -1991), the writer, the individual, the person and the woman and bringing them all together in a collage puts across the times, the courage and the depth of social understanding that produced a story teller of the calibre of Ismat Chughtai
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
28 June 2017, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
The Mothers of Manipur – Twelve Women Who Made History
By Teresa Rehman (New Delhi: Zubaan, 2017)
Discussants: Dr. Lianboi Vaiphei, Professor, Political Science Department, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi; Ms. Pamela Phillipose, Editor, The Wire; ; Dr. Seema Kazi, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (T)
Chair: Ms. Preeti Gill, Editor & Literary Agent
SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
28 June 2017, 05:30 am
SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain
La Sylphide (62 min; dvd)
August Bournonville’s ballet in two acts
The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen
The Danish Orchestra; Conductor: Poul J?rgensen
With Lis Jeppesen, Nikolaj Hübbe, Sorella Englund, Morten Munksdorf
