By Maitreyi Majumdar from Delhi, disciple of Dr Shanno Khurana

The Himalaya: A Timeless Quest
 
Geographies – Physical and Sacred
An exhibition of photographs, paintings, maps and sacred objects
Curator: Shri Deb Mukharji
Curator for Buddhist Himalaya: Shi Kishore Thukral
                                                                                                                                               
Inauguration by Dr. Karan Singh, President ICCR on Friday, 11 July 2014 at 19:00
 
As part of this exhibition, there will be talks and screening of films on                                  
 
Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:00
Kailash and Manas
Illustrated lecture by Shri Deb Mukharji, author of A Quest Beyond the Himalaya
 
Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 19:00                                                                                                                    
Deciphering the Thangka
Illustrated lecture by Shri KishoreThukral, writer-photographer based in Delhi
 
Monday, 21 July 2014 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Film: Where the Clouds End (52 min; 2013; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Director: Wanphrang K. Diengdoh who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
First in a series of exhibitions focusing on some aspects of the Himalaya – geography, trade, exploration and the dissemination of ideas, people and a fragile economy
 

(90 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)                                                                                                      
Director: Yonas Berhane Mewa
 
Celebrated Ethiopian feature film. A romantic comedy about a taxi driver, a rich man living in Addis Ababa and the girl he tries to woo
 

An evening of film, music and dance
 
O Friend,This Waiting! (32 mins; dvd; English and with subtitles)
A film by Sandhya Kumar and Justin McCarthy
Supported by India Foundation for The Arts
 
Kshetrayyapadams
 
Performers
Singer: Sudha Raghuraman
Dancer: Bharathi Penneswaran, student of Justin McCarthy
Nattuvunar: Justin McCarthy as the poet, composer and dancer

(Blauynske Publishing, 2014)
 
Discussion around the book by Mandira Ghosh
 
Discussants: Shri  Ranjan Chatterjee, former Member, Planning Commission; Smt Gitanjali Chatterjee, Deputy Secretary, Sahitya Akademi; Shri Biswa Choudhury; and Shri Himadri Dutta  
 
Chair: Shri Subroto Bondo, Editor, Muse of Murmur, Art and Poetry Ensemble

An exhibition of paintings in oil by Sanjoy Majumder from Kolkata
Preview on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 18:30

By Yamini Muthanna from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Vasundhara Doraswamy            

A panel discussion on the role of the media in shaping opinions and political attitudes and setting the political agenda 

Panelists: Shri Swapan Dasgupta, senior journalist and political commentator; Smt Mrinal Pande, senior journalist and former Chairperson, Prasar Bharati; Prof. Shiv Vishvanathan, Professor, School of Government and Public policy, Jindal University; and Shri Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, and former Editor, The Hindu

Moderator: Ms Barkha Dutt, Group Editor, NDTV

 

Rangzen (11 min; 2013; dvd; English Subtitles)
Director: Gaurav Saxena
 
Rangzen is a film about one 8 year old Tibetan boy, Tashi - growing up as a refugee in a small hill town in Indian - the exiled home of the Dalai Lama. The film maps a crucial day in his life when he stumbles on his exiled refugee identity
  
The Giant Buddhas (95 min; 2005; dvd; English Subtitles))
Director: Christian Frei
 
Recipient of the Silver Dove Award, DOK Leipzig 2005; First Prize Ex Aequo,  Dokufest Prizren 2006; Silver Gentian,  Trento Film Festival 2006; Best of the Fest – Documentary, Tahoe/Reno International Film Festival 2006
 
In the wake of the Taliban's call for the destruction of all non-Islamic-related statues in February of 2001, the world was robbed of two of its most remarkable landmarks. In the aftermath, Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei ventures to Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley in an effort to comprehend the destruction while studying the history of the legendary statues and questioning how anger combined with hypocrisy failed to save two of the planet's most treasured landmarks.
 

Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, essayist and literary-cultural critic; Shri Ramaswamy Iyer, former Secretary, Water Resources; and Smt Vidya Shah, musician will discuss A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story (Noida: HarperCollins, 2014) by T.M. Krishna
 
The author will be present at the discussion
 
Chair: Shri Bhaskar Ghose