The Human Factor
(76 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Director: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
The Human Factor tells the fascinating story of the Lords, a Parsi family of musicians who collectively worked for over 60 years in Mumbai's film orchestras. But the story of the Lords is not theirs alone. It also remains a crucial but obscure chapter in the history of Indian cinema. Using rare archival material, the film provides viewers with a subaltern history of Bollywood
The Tibetan Approach to Mental Health
Speaker: Dr. Jamyang Dolma, Head, Clinical Research Department, Men-Tsee-Khang, Dharamsala
Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC-Asia Project
Health in general, according to Tibetan medicine is based on the harmony of physical and mental state. Therefore the approach to mental health in Tibetan medicine deals with harmonizing the disturbed mind by understanding the mind, its nature and its connection with the body's principle energies which is basically related to the five elements
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
No Greater Love (105 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Director: Michael Whyte
A highly acclaimed, multiple award winning documentary, this film is an account of life inside the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in London's Nottinghill. The film offers a unique insight into the closed world of the nuns of the monastery wherein each of the modern world's material necessity is rejected. Interviews with the nuns tell a tale of their faith, their moments of doubt, their belief in prayers and their lives
Book Discussion Group
Three books will be discussed: Let's Call Him Vasu with the Maoists in Chhattisgarh by Shabhranshu Choudhruy (New Delhi: Penguin, 2012); The Third Dimension: Air Power in Combating the Maoist Insurgency by A.K. Agarwal (New Delhi: Vij Books, 2013); and Consultation on the Fifth Schedule and Tribal Rights, Occasional Paper no.1 (New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research, March 2013)
Panelists: Avm Kapil Kak; Shri G.K. Pillai; and Shri E.N. Rammohan
Chair: Shri B.G. Verghese