Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors (180 min; 2011; dvd; English)

A three-part series of films by Graham Townsley produced by NOVA (USA).

 

Nothing is more fascinating to us than, well, us. Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA’s groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot “in the trenches” as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

Justice Shri Mukul Mudgal in a discussion with Shri Pradeep Magazine, Sports Advisor, The Hindustan Times and Shri Kunal Pradhan, Executive Editor, India Today

Moderator: Shri Nikhil Naz, Sports Editor, NDTV

An exhibition of traditional Patachitra scrolls on Durga and Mansa Devi 

By Sahajan Chitrakar

 

Preview on Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 18:30

 

Sahajan Chitrakar will be present at the gallery to demonstrate and narrate the stories depicted in the paintings

 

Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals

Inaugural Address: Shri S.Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India 

 

Speakers include: Prof. D. P. Agrawal, former Chairman, UPSC and by Shri A. K. Jain, former Commissioner (Planning), DDA

 

Introduction: Dr. (Smt ) Malti Goel

 

(Collaboration: Climate Change Research Institute)

 

Speaker: Professor Sachchidanand Sahai, Adviser to Angkor Archaeological Park and Preah Vihear under the Royal Government of Cambodia. Author of the recently published book Bhadreshvara: A Forgotten Form of Shiva in India and Southeast Asia

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Y. Sudershan Rao, Chairman, ICHR

 

Chair: 

 

Professor Sahai  will present  the temple art and architecture  of Southeast Asia  on  the basis of his  past ten years  of field work  in the region. Intricately designed world heritage temples of My-s’on (Vietnam), Wat Phu (Laos), Angkor and Preah Vihear and the temple region of Prambanan in Indonesia will be presented as an inter-linked chain of temples, responsible for cultural cohesion between India and Southeast Asia. This presentation will take you through Southeast Asia, along its rivers and mountain chains to appreciate millennia of  vibrant artistic traditions and see for the first time    Bhadreshvara (Shiva), the Lord of the Mekong-Ganga and of the Indian Ocean

 

(Collaboration: Indian Council for Historical Research)

 

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (156 min; dvd; English subtitles)
 

A brilliant adaptation of the Shakespearean play by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears

Opera in three acts filmed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1981

 

With Ileana Cotrubas (Tytania); James Bowman (Oberon); Curt Appelgren (Bottom); Cynthia Buchan (Hermia); Ryland Davies (Lysander); Dale Duesing (Demetrius); Felicity Lott (Helen); and others

 

The London Philharmonic

Conductor: Bernard Haitink  

 

Fourth edition of the ‘Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi – 2025’
 

Speakers:

(Collaboration: Green Circle of Delhi)

 

Odissi 

By Sujata Mohapatra, disciple and daughter-in-law of the late Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra

 

Accompanist: Soumya Ranjan (flute); Ramesh Chander (violin); Rupak Kumar (vocal); and Ekalabya Muduli 

(pakhawaj)

 

(Collaboration: Mohindar Dhillon Music Foundation)

 

Shri Rakesh Sood, former Indian diplomat; Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, Chairman, Indian Infosec Consortium; and Prof. Varun Sahni, Professor of International Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru University will discuss Diplomatic Dimensions of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century by Yogendra Kumar (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2015)

 

Chair: Shri Shiv Shankar Menon, former National Security Adviser