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INDIA AND THE WORLD: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND NATIONAL POLICY

03 December 2015, 05:30 am
INDIA AND THE WORLD: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND NATIONAL POLICY
Programme Type
Talks
 
THURSDAY, 3
TALK ? SEMINAR HALLS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
Employing and Skilling a Billion People
Speaker: Shri Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, Teamlease
Chair: Dr. Kiran Karnik
 
MONDAY, 7 
TALK  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:30
Trends in Education and Inequality
Speaker: Dr. Surjit Bhalla, Chairman, Oxus Investments and Senior India Analyst, Observatory Group (a New York based macro policy advisory firm) 
Chair: Shri Arun Maira
 
THURSDAY, 10
TALK  ? SEMINAR HALLS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
The Illusion of Control in Urban Planning
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Seddon, Founder-Director, OKAPI Research Centre, Chennai
Chair: Shri Vinod Rai
 
THURSDAY, 17    (CANCELLED)
TALK  ? SEMINAR HALLS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
Thought Experiments in Urban Transport
Speaker: Prof. Dinesh Mohan, former Professor, IIT (Volvo Chair)
Chair: Shri Dunu Roy

Discussion on Environment and Public Art

02 December 2015, 05:30 am
Discussion on Environment and Public Art
Programme Type
Discussions
Speakers: Shri A.G.K. Menon, President, INTACH (Delhi Chapter); Prof. Dr. P.S.N. Rao, Chairman, Delhi Urban Arts Commission; Ms Amina Sherwani, Environmentalist; and Shri Neeraj Gupta, President, Delhi Art Society
 

Environment…let us breathe better together

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03 December 2015, 05:30 am
Environment…let us breathe better together
An exhibition of sculptures by Latika Katt, Biman Das, Shubhika Lal, Asurvedh, Neeraj Gupta, Mir Imtiyaz, Sheela Chamariya, Pankaj Panwar, Suvojit  Samanta, Rajiv Nayan, Sandeep Chakraborty, Naresh Kapooria, Shovin Bhattacharjee,  Krishan Ahuja, S.P. Choudhry, Anil Sutar, Amira Kapoor and Uday Kumar Pandit
 
There will also be an exhibition of paintings, photographs and collages by Kalicharan Gupta, Asim Patel, Tarun Mathur, Rajeev Kumar, Manoj Jain, Shalini Srivastava and students of G.D. Salwan Public School

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan on Wednesday 2 December 2015 at 17:30
 
Discussion on Environment and Public Art
Speakers: Shri A.G.K. Menon, President, INTACH (Delhi Chapter); Prof. Dr. P.S.N. Rao, Chairman, Delhi Urban Arts Commission; Ms Amina Sherwani, Environmentalist; and Shri Neeraj Gupta, President, Delhi Art Society
 
5 December Presentations at 12 noon
Photography and Environment
Speakers:  K. Ahuja, Asim Patel and Tarun Mathur
 
6 December Talk and Demonstration at 12 noon
Creative Calligraphy 
By Rajeev Kumar
 

Aspects of Indian Art and Culture

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02 December 2015, 05:30 am
Aspects of Indian Art and Culture
Programme Type
Discussions
A discussion on the occasion of the release of four books: Indian Classical Dance by Dr.Kapila Vatsyayan; An Introduction to Music by Late Shri B. Chaitanya Dev; Art and Science of Playing Tabla by Shri Vijay Shankar Mishra; and Bengali Theatre: 200 Years by Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee
 
Discussants: Smt Leela Venkataraman, scholar, author and critic; Shri Irfan Zuberi, Chairperson, Steering Committee on Arts Management, Ministry of Culture and Project Manager, National Cultural Audiovisual Archives, IGNCA; Professor Benil Biswas, Asst. Professor, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University 


Chair: Shri B.P. Singh, former Governor, Sikkim

Khusrau Darya Prem Ka Khusrau, the River of Love

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02 December 2015, 05:30 am
Khusrau Darya Prem Ka Khusrau, the River of Love
(40 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)
Directed by Yousuf Saeed who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
Khusrau Darya Prem Ka is a modern-day docu-drama that tries to understand the 14th century poet-composer, Amir Khusrau Dehlavi. The film uses the dramatic technique of dastan goi by Ankit Chadha to narrate Khusrau’s story and 
Rene Singh who essays the role of a musician hoping to learn more about the poet. The film also uses some renderings of Khusrau’s popular poetry in the voices of traditional qawwals such as Mohammad Ahmed Warsi and Farid Ayaz and Urdu-Persian calligraphy by Anis Siddiqui
 

By Thumb, Hoof and Wheel: Travels in the Global South

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01 December 2015, 05:30 am
By Thumb, Hoof and Wheel: Travels in the Global South
Programme Type
Discussions
An illustrated talk by Shri Prabhu Ghate based on his book of the same title and covers selected journeys in Asia, Africa and Latin America

Chair: Shri Saeed Naqvi

H.E. Dr. Sam Nujoma, Founding President of Namibia Visits IIC

18 November 2015, 05:30 am
H.E. Dr. Sam Nujoma, Founding President of Namibia Visits IIC
Programme Type
Talks

Welcome by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Life Trustee IIC and Chairperson, IIC-Asia Project

 

In Conversation

Dr. Sam Nujoma in conversation with Suhas Borker

 

Followed by a discussion

 

Kindly please be seated by 15:40

 

Sam Nujoma is a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist who served as the first President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005. He was a founding member of the South-West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) and was appointed its first president in 1960. He played a pivotal role as leader of the national liberation movement in campaigning for Namibia’s independence from South African rule

 

On the occasion of The IIC Experience : A Festival of the Arts

31 October 2015, 05:30 am
On the occasion of The IIC Experience : A Festival of the Arts
Programme Type
Cultural
Celebrate the paperback edition of

The Score of My life
by
Zibin Mehta
BJEE, eminent jurist, will be the guest of honour

Barka Dutt will be in conversation with the Maestro about the musical journey

Followed by a book-signing session by the Autor
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