MENTAL HEALTH

02 February 2016, 05:30 am
MENTAL HEALTH
Programme Type
Discussions
Internet – Are we “logged” on or “hooked” on ?
 
Speakers:
1.      Dr Yatan Balhara, Asstt Professor, Psychiatry Dept, AIIMS
2.      Dr Priti Dhawan, Head, Psychology Dept, Lady Shriram College
3.      Ms Bhavna Mehrotra, Student, Psychology Dept, Lady Shriram College
4.      Mr Pravin Prashant, Senior Technologist Journalist
 
 
Moderator: Dr. S.K. Khandelwal
 
Internet has become an integral part of life in current times. It has been unequivocally accepted as one of the most exciting inventions of the last few centuries. The debate surrounding Internet includes the issues such as ease and freedom of its access; its regulation; its impact on youth and social fabric of the society in general, among others. The discussion shall focus on some of the diverse and highly relevant issues related to Internet in modern times - net neutrality; impact of Internet on the youth; and ‘internet addiction’
 
 
 

Bharatanatyam Recital

02 February 2016, 05:30 am
Bharatanatyam Recital
Programme Type
Cultural
By Suhani Dhanki from Mumbai, disciple of Dr. Sandhya V. Pureccha

Filmit India – Open Futures

02 February 2016, 05:30 am
Filmit India – Open Futures
A festival of films presenting the best films made by children from 30 schools in Delhi
 
 
 

From Lahore to Pathankot: Turbulent Trajectory

19 January 2016, 05:30 am
From Lahore to Pathankot: Turbulent Trajectory
Programme Type
Discussions
Speakers: Amb. Vivek Katju, former Secretary, MEA and former Ambassador to Afghanistan
Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, forme GOC of Srinagar  based 15 Corps, and Visiting Fellow, VIF
Mr. Zorawar Daulet Singh, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Chair: Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar (Retd.) Director, Society for Policy Studies

Nahdora

12 January 2016, 05:30 am
Nahdora
Programme Type
Talks
The artistic life of the Gond Pardhan community
Illustrated lecture by D. Arti Agrawal and Dr. Rekha Shrivastav 

THE CRISIS IN SYRIA, ISLAMIC STATE, AND THE TURMOIL IN THE REGION

26 December 2015, 05:30 am
THE CRISIS IN SYRIA, ISLAMIC STATE, AND THE TURMOIL IN THE REGION
Programme Type
Talks
 
Welcome Remarks: IIC Director Air Marshal (Retd)  Naresh Verma
 
Introduction: Suhas Borker
 
Speakers:
Shri K. P. Fabian, former Ambassador and Visiting Professor, Indian Society of International Law;
Dr. Riad Kamel Abbas, Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic;
Shri V.P. Haran, former Indian Ambassador to Syria;
Dr. John Cherian, Foreign Editor, Frontline
 
Followed by discussion.

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

01 February 2016, 05:30 am
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Programme Type
Talks
Excavations at Bhirrana: A Harappan Site in Haryana

Speaker: Dr. Prabash Sahu, Associate Professor , Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, RTM Nagpur University
 
Chair: Dr. S.K. Manjul, Director, Institute of Archaeology
 
Many Harappan sites are located on the banks of the now dried up Saraswati river. The excavations at Bhirrana in Fatehabad district of Haryana by the Excavation Branch – I, Nagpur, Archaeological Survey of India for three consecutive field seasons from 2003 to 2006 under the direction of L.S. Rao has brought to light the genesis and developmental stages of the true urban character of the Harappan civilisation beginning from a nascent rural set up in the form of the Hakra Wares Culture passing through the Early Harappan and Early Mature Harappan periods in an unbroken, vertically evolving sequence finally blooming into the First Urbanisation of the third millennium BCE
 

The Fisherman and his Soul

01 February 2016, 05:30 am
The Fisherman and his Soul
Programme Type
Cultural
Puppet show based on a story by Oscar Wilde
 
Conceptualisation, design, fabrication, sound design and performance by Varun Narain
 
The Fisherman and His Soul is a contemporary performance with life sized puppets and props. A complex parody – a dark love triangle between a Fisherman, his Soul and a Mermaid in a world where ‘Love is better than wisdom, and more precious than riches, and fairer than the feet of the daughters of men. The fires cannot destroy it, nor can the waters quench it.’ In this performance ‘love’ is symbolised by character specific music based on Indian classical ragas and beat cycles 
 
In this performance, the material world and worldly desires are visualised using a combination of Bunraku and rod puppetry, whereas the spiritual aspect is visualised with shadow puppetry, object theatre and story telling techniques
 
The performance is intimidating, boring and scary for any human being below the age of ten
 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

30 January 2016, 05:30 am
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Programme Type
Talks
Recent Discoveries in Rock Art in Vidharba and Adjoining Areas
Speaker: Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya-Sahu, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Nagpur
Chair: Dr. M. Nambirajan, Director (Monuments), Archaeological Survey of India
 
Recent discovery of two hundred and forty seven decorated rock shelters in the Gawilgarh Hills, falling under the revenue jurisdiction of Betul district, Madhya Pradesh in the Satpura range on the border of Amravati district of Maharashtra, by a team comprising members from the Archaeological Survey of India, Nagpur emphasises  two aspects of rock art studies in India: firstly, the hitherto unknown alcove existing in the intensely researched Central Indian Plateau which remained unknown as late as the twenty first century to be uncovered and secondly, the profusion of hitherto lesser known aspect of Indian rock art namely, petroglyphs inside these rock shelters.
 
 

Every Time You Tell a Story (52 min; 2015; HD; English & with subtitles)

30 January 2016, 05:30 am
Every Time You Tell a Story (52 min; 2015; HD; English & with subtitles)
Directed by Amit Mahanti & Ruchika Negi who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
How do you tell a story whose words are a song, a stone, an image, a symbol? A story that is woven into a shawl, woven through time itself? Tsungkotepsu is a shawl worn by men of the Ao-Naga community of Nagaland. Traditionally it signified the achievements of warriors who had won enemy heads in war. Even though the headhunting days are long gone, the shawl is central to Ao-Naga imagination. The film offers an interpretation of history, a way of understanding the shifts that this shawl-making tradition has experienced