(110 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Pratik Sharma

 

Recipient of the Best Theme Award for Feature Film; and Jury Award for Best Actress, Rajasthan International Film Festival 2016

 

The story of a village where the houses have no toilet facilities and there are different rules and timings for men and women to use the common village toilet. The film deftly weaves together fiction with social issues through the character of Uganti to address the many problems faced by rural women across India for their basic amenities

 

Three books will be discussed: As If Women Matter: The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader, Edited by Ruchira Gupta (New Delhi: Rupa, 2016); River of Flesh and Other Stories: The Prostituted Woman in Indian Short Fiction, Edited by Ruchira Gupta (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2016); and Prem Nagar: Town of Love by Anne Ch. Ostby; translated by Marie Ostby (New Delhi: Supernova, 2013)

 

Panelists: Prof. Vidhu Verma, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru university; Prof. Baran Farooqi, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Dr. Kusha Tiwari, Department of English, Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi 

 

Chair: Prof. Indu Agnihotri, Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies

 

By Nishi Gupta from Varanasi, disciple of Smt Girija Devi, Pt Chhannulal Mishra

 

Kobi Pranaam – Gaan O Path

A musical tribute to Tagore through words and song

By Shekhar Gupta from Kolkata

 

Education at the Crossroads

 

Edited by Apoorvanand and Omita Goyal

 

 

 

Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the special issue of the IIC Quarterly (Winter 2015-Spring 2016)

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion

 

Panelists: Prof. Krishna Kumar, Professor of Education and former Director, NCERT; Prof. Shyam B. Menon, Vice-Chancellor, Ambedkar University, Delhi; and Prof. Anita Rampal, Faculty of Education, University of Delhi

 

 

 

This volume asks a fundamental question: What is education? It is not only about literacy and grades and rankings, nor merely about knowledge creation. A common theme that runs through the collection is the recognition that education has to teach us to think and question. If this is the imperative, education must take cognizance of disparities in incomes and social status, the heterogeneity of culture, religion, language and lived reality

 

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Warli paintings by students of Nutan Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Cantonment Board School, Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra 

Paintings by Adnan Kazi, Shadab Kazi, Jayesh Kale, Zakir Shaikh, Prakash Nanavare, Sanket Shelke, Rishikesh Salve and Ankit Sathe
 

Inauguration by Shri Jagmohan    on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 18:30

Learning Warli art has brought about a joyful transformation in the lives of the students of Ahmednagar Cantonment Board Schools. Albeit underpriviledged and bereft of better opportunities, these children under the passionate and tireless tutelage of their art teacher Shri Arvind J. Kudia, have created masterpieces that are on display at the exhibition

 

Speaker: Dr. Ashwani Mehta, Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Sir Gang Ram Hospital

 

Chair: Dr. Raman Kapur

(113 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Shefali Bhushan who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Jugni is about a young Bollywood music producer, Vibhavari who goes to Punjab in search of a folk singer named Bibi Saroop – a character partly based on the sufi singer, Swarn Noora. Jugni meaning firefly in Hindi is also a popular folk song in Punjab about a search. The film includes music produced and sung by A.R. Rahman, Vishal Bharadwaj, Rekha Bharadwaj, Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and others

 

Keynote Comments: Shri M.J. Akbar

 

Panelists: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Carnegie India; Air Marshal (Retd.) Vinod Patney,  former Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force; Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam, SDS (Air), National Defence College; and others

 

Chair: Shri Nitin Gokhale

 

Discussion around the new book India’s Wars: A Military History (1947-1971) by Arjun Subramaniam (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2016)