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Journey into the Lives of People

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04 February 2015, 05:30 am
Journey into the Lives of People
Screening of Award-winning films from Public Service Broadcasting Trust
 
Journey to Nagaland (26 min; 2010; dvd; English)
Director: Aditi Chitre
 
Recipient of the Golden Conch for Best Animation Film, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2012; Best Animation Short Film, INFOCOM-ASSOCHAM Excellence in Media & Entertainment Awards, 2011; Best Animation Film & Special Jury Mention for Sound Design, 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2011
 
The story of a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and her mother’s spirit to discover the latter’s roots, and possibly her own
 
Qissa-e-Parsi (30 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Directors: Divya Cowasji, Shilpi Gulati
 
The film explores the history of the Parsi community, its relationship to the Indian state and association with the city of Mumbai. It strives to understand the Zoroastrian faith, the philosophy to live, laugh and love that is the backbone of the Parsi way of life and what makes it so endearingly unique and beloved.  It is an attempt to understand a community that has always been numerically small, yet, culturally and socially formidable
 
So Heddan So Hoddan (52 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar
 
Recipient of the Basil Wright Prize, 13th Royal Anthropological International Festival of Ethnographic Films, Edinburgh, 2013; Best Film, 2nd International Folk Music Festival, Nepal, 2012; Silver for Cinematography, Silver for Sound Design and Silver for Script, Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) Awards, 2010
 
Mustafa Jatt sings Bheths, narratives of longing, sung by the Jatts, pastoral Muslim communities that live on the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat, separating India and Pakistan. The film is a journey into the music and everyday life of these communities, set against the backdrop of the Rann and the pastoral Banni grass lands
 

Savannah & Crater – East Africa's Garden of Eden

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03 February 2015, 05:30 am
Savannah & Crater – East Africa's Garden of Eden
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr. Sudha Mahalingam, traveller and travel writer ever in quest of the extraordinary and the exceptional, will deliver an illustrated lecture on Serengeti and Ngorongoro based on her recent visit
 
Chair: Shri Ranjit Lal
 
The seemingly endless plains of Serengeti rimmed by 360 degree horizons and the adjoining Ngorongoro, a collapsed crater in Africa's Rift valley are a veritable Garden of Eden with their profusion of uniquely African wildlife. Serengeti attracts millions of wildebeest, gazelles and zebra and a multitude of other animals - both predator and potential prey - which wander here to give birth and raise their young; Ngorongoro offers a sheltered valley, perhaps a laboratory for wildlife 
 

In Memory of Mehdi Hasan and Jagjit Singh

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02 February 2015, 05:30 am
In Memory of Mehdi Hasan and Jagjit Singh
Programme Type
Cultural
Pran Nevile pays tribute to the eminent Ghazal singers followed by a concert 
 
By Dr. Gaurav Sood

J. Krishnamurti and the Significance of Education and Culture

23 January 2015, 05:30 am
J. Krishnamurti and the Significance of Education and Culture
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Mr. R.E. Mark Lee,  Trustee, Krishnamurti Foundation India and the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. Former Executive Director of the American Foundation for 25 years; Founding Principal of the Oak Grove School in California for ten years ; Principal of the Rishi Valley Junior School for eight years; author of "Knocking at the Open Door: My Years with J. Krishnamurti( Hay House); editor-in-chief of "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti" and "The Book of Life"

Chair: Shri Vishal Gujral

Ending Manual Scavenging: Time for Actiion

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16 January 2015, 05:30 am
Ending Manual Scavenging: Time for Actiion
Programme Type
Discussions
This panel will bring together practitioners, policy makers and UN representatives to deliberate on ways to accelerate implementation of “The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013” and strengthen national and state government initiatives for identification and rehabilitation of manual scavengers.

Speakers will include Mr. Ali Anwar, Member of Parliament; Mr. Coen Kompier, Senior Labour Specialist, International Labour Organization; Dr. Vijayalaxmi Sadho, Member of Parliament (TBC); Ashif Shaikh, Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan; and Mr. R. K. Singh, Chairperson, National Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation; and Dr. Rebecca Tavares, UN Women Representative for India, Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
 
Manual scavenging refers to the practice of requiring people of a certain caste—and particularly women—to collect and remove human excrement from dry toilets, open defecation areas, and other unsanitary defecation facilities. Despite legal and programmatic interventions by central and state governments, manual scavenging persists and communities historically in the practice continue to be marginalized and excluded socially, economically and politically. 
 

Lusophonies | Lusofonias

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01 February 2015, 05:30 am
Lusophonies | Lusofonias
Works of art from a wide range of artists of different generations, from Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique and India. The works that are presented in the exhibition come from the cited collection of lusophonia from Perve Gallery (Lisbon), and is jointly curated by Carlos Cabral Nunes and Miguel Amado
 
The exhibition introduces the art of lusophonia; making a clear distinction between what was produced before PALOPs independence and the artistic development that occurred after installation of sovereign regimes. Another direction of this exhibition aims to promote the work of new generations of Portuguese-speaking artists. Furthermore, there will be artworks from non-African countries such as Brazil, India and China, who established their artistic division in 1974, the date of regime change in Portugal 
 
 

MARTYRS DAY

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30 January 2015, 05:30 am
MARTYRS DAY
 
Mahatma Gandhi : 20th Century Prophet
A.K. Chettiar’s documentary film on Gandhi is unique in many ways. It is credited to be the first documentary on Mahatma Gandhi. Shri Chettiar, travelogue writer, journalist and documentary film maker from Tamil Nadu, started working on this project in 1937. With the 50,000 feet film he collected he started editing in the year 1940. The first version was released on 23 August 1940. The documentary was dubbed into Hindi and re-released on the eve of Indian independence on 15th August 1947 under the Presidentship of Dr. Rajendra Prasad.  Shri A.K. Chettiar re-edited the film in Hollywood with a commentary in English and screened it in the U.S. in 1953 
 
The film was digitised recently
 
Dr. Aparna Basu, well known historian  and Chairperson, National Gandhi Museum will introduce the film

In Conversation

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29 January 2015, 05:30 am
In Conversation
Programme Type
Discussions
Ned Thomas in conversation with Sunandan Roy Chowdhury
 
Ned Thomas’s memoir Bydoedd (Worlds) won the Best Welsh Book of the Year Award in 2013. Ned Thomas gives a personal perspective on a large slice of Europe’s history, its social and political life. From post-war Germany where his father presided over a British denazification tribunal to Moscow where he worked as an exchange professor at Moscow State University to Franco’s Salamanca and finally back to Wales
 
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