By Abhishek Adhikary and Murchana Adhikary Barthakur from Kolkata, disciples of Pt. Deepak Choudhury and Debu Chaudhuri

Presented by Carlos Fernando Balanta, an exponent of music from the Pacific region of Colombia who plays drums, bongos, bells, clave, the traditional marimba from Colombia with objects, voice and guitar
 

Weather & Climate Forecasts and its Applications
Speaker: Dr Laxman Singh Rathore, Director General of Meteorology , Permanent Representative of India with World Meteorological Organization and Vice-Chair Intergovernmental Board on Climate Service, United Nations
 
Chair: Dr M. Rajeevan, Adviser /Scientist G, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
 
India Meteorological Department is the National Meteorological Agency mandated for operational weather forecast and warning services across the country. In the proposed talk, a brief account of the present status of a) Meteorological observing systems, b) numerical models, c) issuance of operational weather and climate forecasts d) consequences of the expected  weather situation in terms of its impacts and application in sectors such as agriculture and e) meteorological information dissemination directed toward the various internal or external users will be delivered  

Invoking Justice (India; 86 min; 2011; English subtitles)
Director: Deepa Dhanraj
Recipient of the QFX Jury Award, Film Southasia 2013
 
Film on the women’s Jamaats in South India, which applies Islamic Sharia law to cases ranging from divorce to wife beating to brutal murders and more
At 15:00                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 No Fire Zone (Sri Lanka; 93 min; 2013; English subtitles)                                                                                  
 Director: Callum Macrae                                                                                                                                               
Special Mention of the Jury, Film Southasia 2013
An investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War           
 
At 17:00 pm     
Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls (Burma; 75 min; 2012; English subtitles)
Director: Juliet Lamont
 
An insightful and entertaining story of Burma’s first girl band
 
At 18:30 pm     
Algorithms (India; 96 min; 2012; English)
Director: Ian McDonald
 
Recipient of the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film, Film Southasia 2013
 
Film on the thriving but little-known world of ‘blind chess’ in India. It moves through the algorithms of the blind chess world, challenging the sighted on what it means to see

The Story of One (Sri Lanka; 19 min; 2012; English)
Director: Kannan Arunasalam
 
At the height of the troubles in Sri Lanka, a mother asked a Jesuit priest to take her son to safety, thinking no harm could come to him if he was with an American priest. She was wrong.
The film explores how parents of the disappeared struggle to get on with their lives and how communities polarized by violence re-learn to live together in present-day Batticaloa
 
At 18:55    
 Who Will Be a Gurkha (Nepal; 75 min; 2012; English subtitles)                                                                           
Director: Kesang Tseten
 
What does it take to be a Gurkha? The film follows the candidates and the recruitment process, carried out with meticulous British planning, a modern-day ritual born in the days of Empire

Illustrated lecture by Shri Kishore Thukral, writer-photographer based in Delhi

Illustrated lecture by Shri Deb Mukharji who has been walking and photographing the Himalaya for over five decades

Tribute by Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director, IIC

Tribute by Shri Jatin Das, artist

Selected articles from Temenos by Keshav Malik - Readings by Dr.Geeti Sen, art historian

Poems by Keshav Malik - Readings by Ms. Jasleen Singh, artist

Tribute by Shri Rajeev Lochan, Director, NGMA

Tribute and readings by Dr. H.K. Kaul, President, TPS

Film: Keshav Malik - The Truth of Art (30 min; 2013; dvd; English)
Directed by Sangeeta Gupta 

Polity, Economy and International Relations

Editors
Jakub,Zajaczkowski, Jivanta Schottli and Manish Thapa

Book Release by
Ambassador Piotr Klodkowski, The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in  New Delhi

Chair: Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya, former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Discussants: Professor Shantanu Chakrabarti, University of Calcutta; Prof. B.N. Goldar, Institute of  Economic Growth; Dr. Boguslaw Zeleski, Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw and Mr. Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times