Maharashtra Sanskritik Diwas 2016

 

Lokmanya: Ek Yug Purush (145 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Om Raut

 

The film will be introduced by Suhas Borker

 

Lokmanya Ek Yug Purush is a Marathi biopic based on the life of freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The film released in 2015, marks Om Raut's directorial debut after a career as a writer and director for MTV Networks, New York. The saga unfolds through the eyes of a young journalist, who reads through a book on Tilak's life and visualises how the great leader's ideas inspired thousands of youngsters to join the freedom struggle. A brilliant portrayal of Tilak by Subodh Bhave keeps you glued throughout.  The film raises many contemporary questions: how we have forgotten our freedom fighters and their sacrifices that got us freedom and how there is an overpowering and nagging doubt even today about the kind of freedom we have - are we really free?  

 

 

Mere Desh ki Dharti (60 min; 2006; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sumit Khanna

 

In our effort to achieve food security, have we compromised on food safety? The film investigates the impact of pesticides as they enter the food chain

 

(Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust)

 

On the occasion of World Literacy Day

Adult Literacy – Facts & Fiction

 

The complexities attached to Literacy in rural India - Facts & Fiction

Speakers: Captain Indraani Singh, Founder Literacy India & Senior Air India Pilot; Ms. Purnima Gupta, Nirantar; and 

Dr. Aapga Singh COO of Rotary International Literacy Mission

 

The dichotomy between private, state and rural educators - their training qualifications and teaching methods; the shortage of trainer teachers in rural areas - immediate actions by Government

Speaker: Dr. S.Y. Shah, Director, International Institute of Adult and Lifelong Education, Vice- President, Indian Adult Education Association

 

Andragogy - Teaching Adults is very different from teaching children - Training the Trainers

Speakers: Dr. Shalini Advani Director Pathways World School, Noida; and Ms. Meeta Sengupta Education Strategist

 

The Global Learning Crisis also includes the acute shortage of teachers at all levels (UNESCO report) - What may India propose? 

Speaker: Ms. Meeta Sengupta

 

The difficulties of implementing and sustaining adult literacy programmes for women with disabilities 

Speaker: Smt Priyo Lall , Director, Special Education, Raphael Ryder Cheshire International

 

Moderator: Smt Jayshree Misra Tripathi  , Independent Consultant, International Education & Adult Women's Literacy.

 

 

Maritime Archaeology and Project Mausam: Reconnecting Across the Indian Ocean

Speaker: Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray, Hony. Prof. Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

Chairperson: Prof. Madhu Bhalla, formerly of Delhi University 

 

This presentation will discuss the Ministry of Culture’s Project Mausam, which was launched at the 38th World Heritage Session at Doha, Qatar on 20th June, 2014 and its implications for maritime archaeology in India. The intertwining of natural phenomena such as monsoon winds or Mawsim in Arabic and the ways in which these were harnessed historically to create cultural networks provide building blocks for contemporary societies, as they work towards universal values and trans-border groupings – both of which underwrite UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention

 

 

 

 

 

By Gayatri Girish from Chennai, disciple of the late Shri Vaigal Gnanaskandan and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Shri T.N. Seshagopalan

 

With Delhi R. Sridhar on violin and M.V. Chandrashekar on mridangam

 

(Collaboration: Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha)

 

 

 

 

Release of the first report by CRW voluntary network (Corporate Responsibility Watch)

 

(Collaboration: Business and Community Foundation)

 

 

 

Homeware designs in bamboo and wood handcrafted in Nagaland and Manipur

Presented by E’thaan Design Studio

 

Crafted by Master Artisans: Nungshi Renba, Khrolo, Ruovi, Thangmei, Kainok, Imongba, Katasibo, Nyamgai, Putsui, Vizovol and Temsu from Nagaland; and Teraphai women’s bamboo and cane self-help group under MWGSN, Langthabal, Imphal, Mainpur

 

Inauguration by Shri T.P. Subramony, Director INBAR Office in Delhi, Regional Coordinator for South Asia International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, New Delhi on Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

Geeti sen in conversation with Krishen Khanna

 

In creative expression the process becomes as significant as the initial idea. Invariably the results are not what were originally planned! In this dialogue, Geeti Sen will be in conversation with Krishen Khanna in exploring the genesis of ideas and his explorations in drawing and on the final canvas

 

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Sanjay Manchanda, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

 

Moderator: Dr. Raman Kapur

 

 

 

By Amrita Lahiri from Delhi, disciple of Swapnsaundari, Seetha Nagajothy and Jaikishore Mosalikanti, and recipient of the Sanskriti – Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship 2016

 

Accompanists: Sudha Raghuraman (vocal); M.V. Chandrashekar (mridangam); G. Raghuraman (flute) and Keshavan (nattuvannar)