Britain’s Political Earthquake: Understanding the Corbyn Phenomenon
08 October 2015, 05:30 am
Britain’s Political Earthquake: Understanding the Corbyn Phenomenon
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Prof. Achin Vanaik, former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi
Introduction: Shri Suhas Borker
Britain’s main opposition party now has in Jeremy Corbyn its most leftwing leader ever. This is not because Labour MPs - 95% of whom did not want him as leader - but in spite of them. This has reflected a great eruption of Grassroots support which has led to a trebling of Labour Party membership in just a few months. Corbyn has long opposed Britain's and his own party's policies on three major fronts. His 3 'NOs' have been - NO to Austerity, NO to Militarism in the name of Democracy, NO to social discrimination of any kind whether based on race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, caste or religion. This development needs to be seen in the context of the rise in public approval of a more radical left in Europe and North America. In 2013, Corbyn was awarded the Gandhi International Peace Award for his "consistent efforts over a 30-year parliamentary career to uphold the Gandhian values of social justice and non?violence”.
GOVERNANCE ISSUES ON AGRICULTURE
08 October 2015, 05:30 am
GOVERNANCE ISSUES ON AGRICULTURE
Programme Type
Discussions
Promoting Income Security and Livelihood for Small and Marginal Farmers
Introduction: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary
Speaker: Shri Pravesh Sharma, Managing Director, Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium
Chair: Shri B.K. Taimini, former Secretary, Govt. of India
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND THE OTHER DIMENSION
07 October 2015, 05:30 am
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND THE OTHER DIMENSION
Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
Ghosts of Machu Picchu: Inside the Incan City in the Clouds
(56 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Director: Alan Ritsko
Perched atop a mountain crest, mysteriously abandoned more than four centuries ago, Machu Picchu is the most famous archeological ruin in the Western Hemisphere and an iconic symbol of the power and engineering prowess of the Inca. In the years since Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, there have been countless theories about this "Lost City of the Incas," yet it remains an enigma. Why did the Incas build it on such an inaccessible site? Who lived among its stone buildings, farmed its emerald green terraces, and drank from its sophisticated aqueduct system? The film follows a new generation of archeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site
Reading Latin America: Jorge Luis Borges
07 October 2015, 05:30 am
Reading Latin America: Jorge Luis Borges
Programme Type
Discussions
CANCELLED
A discussion series on well-known literary figures of Latin America
A discussion series on well-known literary figures of Latin America
Conceptualised and coordinated by Prof. Vibha Maurya, Dept. of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi
Speakers: Prof. Anil Bhatti, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Shaswati Mazumdar, Professor of German Studies, University of Delhi; Prof. Vijaya Venkataraman, Associated Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Delhi; among others
Beyond Barbed Wires: Discussing the Deoli Experience
06 October 2015, 05:30 am
Beyond Barbed Wires: Discussing the Deoli Experience
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions,
Webcasts
Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn (35 min; dvd; English)
Directed by Rafeeq Ellias who will introduce the film
A Knock at Midnight - More than 50 years ago the lives of thousands of Chinese living in India changed when they were taken from their homes in the Darjeeling and Assam areas to an internment camp in Deoli, Rajasthan. The film explores in gripping vignettes how some ex-internees have lived with the experience
The Deoliwallahs – The Last Generation of Survivors of the Chinese Internment Camp in Deoli
Panelists: Michael Cheng was six years old when he was interned. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his family; Joy Ma is a writer and attended Delhi University. Born in Deoli, she is working on a book about her family’s journey in India; Yin Marsh was 13 when she went to Deoli. She is the author of Doing Time with Nehru; and Steven Wan who was a teenager when he was interned with his family. He lives in Toronto, Canada
Chair: Dilip D’Souza, Mumbai-based writer and journalist
In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
05 October 2015, 05:30 am
In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Director and Professor in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, who will speak on her new book published by Primus Books
Discussant: Ms Gayatri Sinha, art critic and curator
Chair: Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati
Fun and Frolics
05 October 2015, 05:30 am
Fun and Frolics
Programme Type
Cultural
In his lifetime, Rabindranath Tagore penned some rare ‘nonsense’ rhymes numbering about 300, in seven slim books. These verses have seldom been known outside Bengal and never rendered through performing arts: even in Bengal.
Shri Utpal K Banerjee has rendered them into rhymed English verses, which have now been published by the Sahitya Akademi in four volumes under the generic title: Rainbow Rhymes of Tagore. A selection out of these English verses will be visualised – in innovative classical forms by the following well-known choreographer-dancers
Purva Dhanasree in Vilasini Natyam; Kavita Dwivedi in Odissi; Pratibha Prahlad in Bharatanatyam; and Saswati Sen in Kathak