Annual Chishti India Harmony Awards 2014
05 February 2015, 05:30 am
Annual Chishti India Harmony Awards 2014
Programme Type
Discussions
Welcome Address: Shri Virendra Dayal
Message on Harmony by Shri Salim Khan, film personality
Chief Guest: Dr. Najma Heptullah, Union Minister for Minority Affairs
Screening of Documentary: India – A Flowering of Faiths
Journey into the Lives of People
04 February 2015, 05:30 am
Journey into the Lives of People
Screening of Award-winning films from Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Journey to Nagaland (26 min; 2010; dvd; English)
Director: Aditi Chitre
Recipient of the Golden Conch for Best Animation Film, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2012; Best Animation Short Film, INFOCOM-ASSOCHAM Excellence in Media & Entertainment Awards, 2011; Best Animation Film & Special Jury Mention for Sound Design, 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2011
The story of a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and her mother’s spirit to discover the latter’s roots, and possibly her own
Qissa-e-Parsi (30 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Directors: Divya Cowasji, Shilpi Gulati
The film explores the history of the Parsi community, its relationship to the Indian state and association with the city of Mumbai. It strives to understand the Zoroastrian faith, the philosophy to live, laugh and love that is the backbone of the Parsi way of life and what makes it so endearingly unique and beloved. It is an attempt to understand a community that has always been numerically small, yet, culturally and socially formidable
So Heddan So Hoddan (52 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar
Recipient of the Basil Wright Prize, 13th Royal Anthropological International Festival of Ethnographic Films, Edinburgh, 2013; Best Film, 2nd International Folk Music Festival, Nepal, 2012; Silver for Cinematography, Silver for Sound Design and Silver for Script, Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) Awards, 2010
Mustafa Jatt sings Bheths, narratives of longing, sung by the Jatts, pastoral Muslim communities that live on the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat, separating India and Pakistan. The film is a journey into the music and everyday life of these communities, set against the backdrop of the Rann and the pastoral Banni grass lands
Savannah & Crater – East Africa's Garden of Eden
03 February 2015, 05:30 am
Savannah & Crater – East Africa's Garden of Eden
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr. Sudha Mahalingam, traveller and travel writer ever in quest of the extraordinary and the exceptional, will deliver an illustrated lecture on Serengeti and Ngorongoro based on her recent visit
Chair: Shri Ranjit Lal
The seemingly endless plains of Serengeti rimmed by 360 degree horizons and the adjoining Ngorongoro, a collapsed crater in Africa's Rift valley are a veritable Garden of Eden with their profusion of uniquely African wildlife. Serengeti attracts millions of wildebeest, gazelles and zebra and a multitude of other animals - both predator and potential prey - which wander here to give birth and raise their young; Ngorongoro offers a sheltered valley, perhaps a laboratory for wildlife
J. Krishnamurti and the Significance of Education and Culture
23 January 2015, 05:30 am
J. Krishnamurti and the Significance of Education and Culture
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Mr. R.E. Mark Lee, Trustee, Krishnamurti Foundation India and the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. Former Executive Director of the American Foundation for 25 years; Founding Principal of the Oak Grove School in California for ten years ; Principal of the Rishi Valley Junior School for eight years; author of "Knocking at the Open Door: My Years with J. Krishnamurti( Hay House); editor-in-chief of "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti" and "The Book of Life"
Chair: Shri Vishal Gujral
Chair: Shri Vishal Gujral
Ending Manual Scavenging: Time for Actiion
16 January 2015, 05:30 am
Ending Manual Scavenging: Time for Actiion
Programme Type
Discussions
This panel will bring together practitioners, policy makers and UN representatives to deliberate on ways to accelerate implementation of “The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013” and strengthen national and state government initiatives for identification and rehabilitation of manual scavengers.
Speakers will include Mr. Ali Anwar, Member of Parliament; Mr. Coen Kompier, Senior Labour Specialist, International Labour Organization; Dr. Vijayalaxmi Sadho, Member of Parliament (TBC); Ashif Shaikh, Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan; and Mr. R. K. Singh, Chairperson, National Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation; and Dr. Rebecca Tavares, UN Women Representative for India, Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
Manual scavenging refers to the practice of requiring people of a certain caste—and particularly women—to collect and remove human excrement from dry toilets, open defecation areas, and other unsanitary defecation facilities. Despite legal and programmatic interventions by central and state governments, manual scavenging persists and communities historically in the practice continue to be marginalized and excluded socially, economically and politically.
Speakers will include Mr. Ali Anwar, Member of Parliament; Mr. Coen Kompier, Senior Labour Specialist, International Labour Organization; Dr. Vijayalaxmi Sadho, Member of Parliament (TBC); Ashif Shaikh, Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan; and Mr. R. K. Singh, Chairperson, National Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation; and Dr. Rebecca Tavares, UN Women Representative for India, Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
Manual scavenging refers to the practice of requiring people of a certain caste—and particularly women—to collect and remove human excrement from dry toilets, open defecation areas, and other unsanitary defecation facilities. Despite legal and programmatic interventions by central and state governments, manual scavenging persists and communities historically in the practice continue to be marginalized and excluded socially, economically and politically.
