Pran Nevile pays tribute to the immortal ghazal queen Begum Akhtar  

 

Concert 

By Smt Rashmi Agarwal

 

The Dining Room (75 min)

Directed by Feisal Alkazi

 

A visual enactment of A.R.Gurney's play, with Radhika Alkazi, Nandini Sra, Jagmohan, Meenakshi Arora, Gayatri Khanna, Ashish, Rashmi and Jahanara  

 

A protected, innocent world confronts an entirely different set of values 

 

Navdanya: An Experiment in Non-violent Farming and Food

Speaker: Dr. Vandana Shiva, renowned environmental activist

 

By Manoranjan Nayak and Rajeswari Nayak from Bhubaneswar, disciples of Guru Durgacharan Ranbir and                      

Guru Shri Pitamber Biswal

 

DNA: Not Merely The Secret of Life

Speaker: Prof. Nadrian "Ned" Seeman of New York University, New York, USA, a chemist who is credited with discovering the fields of DNA nanotechnology and DNA computing, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize 

Prof Amrit Srinivasan, IIT Delhi; Prof George Mathew, Chairman, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi; Prof Maitrayee Chaudhuri, JNU; and Prof. Abhijit Dasgupta, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi  will  discuss, Towards Knowledge Society: New Identities in Emerging India by Dr.  Debal K.  SinghaRoy (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

 

Chair: Prof Yogendra Singh, Emeritus Professor, JNU

Discussion around this book edited by Prof Santosh Mehrotra

 

Panelists: Shri Prakash Singh, former Director General, UP Police; Shri Rahul Pandita, The Hindu; Shri Ramanna, Institute of  Defence Studies and Analyses; and Professor Santosh Mehrotra

 

Once a Nomad – Life Apps (Namibia)

(28 min; 2013; dvd; English) 

Director: Abius Akwaake

 

You cannot be more isolated than Namibia's Himba people, a nomadic tribe, following their cattle herds around the harsh, arid landscape of northern Namibia. They do not wear western clothes, preferring traditional attire and striking hairstyles. Most Himba cannot read or write, and yet they do use mobile phones - often travelling for days to try and decipher a text. They are dubious that a life app can help, but Windhoek-based mobile software developer Dalton wants to try…

 

Mobile Harvest (26 min; 2013; dvd; English)

Director: Arjun Pandey

 

In New Delhi, Sachin Gaur keeps computers safe from hackers – but now he has an even tougher challenge. Disturbed by the wave of farmer’s suicide, Sachin wants to help. The film follows him as he travels to Andhra Pradesh where he meets with poor farmers and hears first - hand the major obstacles they face. With a firm grasp of some of their real-life problems, he's ready to start working on a "Life App" to help spread the farmers' ideas…

 

Directed by Manju Kak who will introduce the film

 

For centuries the Bhotias traded with Tibet using routes that cut through the western and eastern passes of the Himalayas; snaking through the valleys of the fast flowing Gori river, across the treacherous Untadhura and Kingri Bingri passes at 19, 000 feet high. In 1962, these passes were closed following the Indo-Chinese war – trade came to an end and with it a centuries old culture that had bonded the Tibetan and Bhotia communities in familial friendships. This film captures some of those memories of the legendary traders

 

Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Asian and Kargil Trade Artifacts

Speaker: Shri Muzammil Hussain Munshi, Director – Outreach, Resource and Design of the museum