By Sameep Kulkarni from Pune, disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez

Speaker: Shri Murad Ali Baig, travel and motoring writer who has recently published an historical novel, Ocean of Cobras (Tara – India Research Press, New Delhi 2015) set in 17^th century Mughal India. His talk will be based on this as well as on the writing of the novel

Directors: Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena who will introduce the film
Recipient of the Best Film Award in the ‘Water for All’ category, Vatavaran Environment & Wildlife Film Festival, New Delhi 2014; Gold for Best Script, Silver for Cinematography, Silver for Editing and Silver for Direction, and Certificate of Merit for Creative Excellence, Indian Documentary Producers Association Awards, Mumbai 2015
Screening will be followed by a discussion with Chittaroopa Palit, Narmada Bachao Andolan and Anupam Mishra and the two filmmakers
 
The film documents the resilient, non-violent Gandhian struggle of the mega-dam affected citizens of the Narmada valley. It questions the paradigm of development which assumes that mega dams are critical to progress. The film follows the drama inherent in the unfolding saga of the Narmada struggle

Speaker: Dr. Karen Exell, Lecturer in Museum Studies and Programme Director of the Masters Program in Museum and Gallery Practice, University College London, Qatar campus. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume, Heritage Debates in the Arabian Peninsula (Ashgate, 2014); and the forthcoming monograph, Museums in the Arabian Peninsula: Globalisation and the Politics of Representation (working title)
 
Museums were developed in many parts of the world during the colonial period to ‘visualise and objectify’ the colonised people and country for the coloniser, as Sheila Bhatti has argued in relation to the Lahore Museum. Following decolonisation the perception has remained amongst local communities that these ‘colonial’ museums are irrelevant to their contemporary concerns. Using models from a variety of countries this lecture argues that museums in post-colonial countries such as India have the opportunity to significantly enrich the lives of their local communities through creative interventions, and to realign these museums with contemporary socio-political concerns
 

Illustrated lecture by M.V. Bhaskar, who is working on  alternative forms of reconstruction and restoration of the mural paintings will recount tales of the lost art of mural painting
 
Followed by a
 
Bharatanatyam Recital
By Justin McCarthy with Kalamkari images to narrate stories of Mohini

Dr. Bharat Wariavwalla, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Shri Shakti Sinha, Chairman, South Asia Institute for Strategic Affairs; and Shri Jayant Prasad, Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of India and former Indian Ambassador to Nepal will discuss World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger (New Delhi: Allen Lane, Penguin 2014)
 
Chair: Shri Shiv Shankar Menon, former National Security Advisor 

Series curated by Rajeev Mehrotra
 
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (60 min; 2011; dvd; English)
Directors: Jonathan Challis, John Coffey, Susan Crook, Ian Lync
 
Few men have changed our everyday world of work, leisure and human communication in the way that Apple founder, Steve Jobs has done. Through interviews with those who worked closely with him or chronicled his life, this documentary looks not only at how his talent, his style, and his imagination has shaped all our lives; but also at the influences that shaped and moulded the man himself

Two artistic stories from Lithuania and India
An exhibition of paintings by Gintautas Vyŝniauskas on India and Arijeet Chanda on Lithuania
 
Inauguration by Shri  Paresh Rawal, MP on Tuesday, 4^th August 2015 at 18:30
 

Speaker: Dr. Shuvendu Sen, Director, Medical Education and Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Rutgers University Affiliate, New Jersey
 
Chair: Dr. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
 
Every disease has an early stage. The challenge of modern medicine and the key to long lasting health rests on our ability to recognise and treat those slender hints
 

Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa (58 min; 2008; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Director: Arun Khopkar
 
Shri Ram Rahman, well-known photographer will introduce the film
 
One of the world’s most important architect, the film looks at Charles Correa’s early childhood, architectural training, formative years, and the paradigms underlying his large and complex architectural oeuvre over five decades, as well as his pivotal role in the Developing World. It uses first person narration by the filmmaker, combined with extended excerpts of interviews with Correa, live action, stills, drawings, animation and archival footage