Challenges of Good Governance
Speaker: Shri N.C. Saxena, former Member, Planning Commission and at present  Member, National Advisory Council
 
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC
 

Speaker : Dr. Darius Cooper, teaches Critical Thinking, Film, and Humanities in San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, USA;  and author of several books including Between Tradition and Modernity:The Cinema of Satyajit Ray (Cambridge University Press,  2000); Guru Dutt and Hollywood Melodrama ( Seagull Books, 2004); Beyond the Chameleon's Skill -  book of poems (Poetrywalla, 2012); The Fuss About Queens and other stories (Om Books, 2014)
 
The talk chronicles how Dr. Cooper became a cinephile or student of cinema aided by cultural establishments in Bombay and the sudden rise and popularity  of the Film Society Movement that took place simultaneously

Inner Recesses, Outer Spaces

By Maitreyi Majumdar from Delhi, disciple of Dr Shanno Khurana

The Himalaya: A Timeless Quest
 
Geographies – Physical and Sacred
An exhibition of photographs, paintings, maps and sacred objects
Curator: Shri Deb Mukharji
Curator for Buddhist Himalaya: Shi Kishore Thukral
                                                                                                                                               
Inauguration by Dr. Karan Singh, President ICCR on Friday, 11 July 2014 at 19:00
 
As part of this exhibition, there will be talks and screening of films on                                  
 
Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:00
Kailash and Manas
Illustrated lecture by Shri Deb Mukharji, author of A Quest Beyond the Himalaya
 
Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 19:00                                                                                                                    
Deciphering the Thangka
Illustrated lecture by Shri KishoreThukral, writer-photographer based in Delhi
 
Monday, 21 July 2014 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Film: Where the Clouds End (52 min; 2013; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Director: Wanphrang K. Diengdoh who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
First in a series of exhibitions focusing on some aspects of the Himalaya – geography, trade, exploration and the dissemination of ideas, people and a fragile economy
 

(90 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)                                                                                                      
Director: Yonas Berhane Mewa
 
Celebrated Ethiopian feature film. A romantic comedy about a taxi driver, a rich man living in Addis Ababa and the girl he tries to woo
 

An evening of film, music and dance
 
O Friend,This Waiting! (32 mins; dvd; English and with subtitles)
A film by Sandhya Kumar and Justin McCarthy
Supported by India Foundation for The Arts
 
Kshetrayyapadams
 
Performers
Singer: Sudha Raghuraman
Dancer: Bharathi Penneswaran, student of Justin McCarthy
Nattuvunar: Justin McCarthy as the poet, composer and dancer

(Blauynske Publishing, 2014)
 
Discussion around the book by Mandira Ghosh
 
Discussants: Shri  Ranjan Chatterjee, former Member, Planning Commission; Smt Gitanjali Chatterjee, Deputy Secretary, Sahitya Akademi; Shri Biswa Choudhury; and Shri Himadri Dutta  
 
Chair: Shri Subroto Bondo, Editor, Muse of Murmur, Art and Poetry Ensemble

An exhibition of paintings in oil by Sanjoy Majumder from Kolkata
Preview on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 18:30

By Yamini Muthanna from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Vasundhara Doraswamy