Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi - 2025
Panelists: Dr. Mahesh N. Buch, Chairman, National Centre for Human Settlements and Environment, Bhopal and former Vice-Chairman, National Urbanisation Commission; Prof. C.R. Babu, Emeritus Professor, CEMDE, University of Delhi; Shri G.S. Patnaik, IAS, Secretary to the Vice-President of India and former Vice-Chairman, DDA; Shri Sanjiv Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Environment & Forests, Govt. of NCT Delhi; Shri Manoj Kumar Misra, Convener, Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan and formerly in the Indian Forest Service; Shri Rajendra Ravi, Director, Institute for Democracy and Sustainability, Delhi; and Dr. Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle Delhi

Musical Routes: Reading History, Society and Emotion Through How Music Travels

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University

Second lecture in a new series of lectures organised in collaboration with Sahapedia, an online repository of resources on the arts, cultures and histories of India (and broadly South Asia) with a view to bringing current scholarship on Indian culture and heritage to a wider public

Director: István Szabó

Multiple award winner including Special Award, Hungarian Film Critics Awards 2003; ADF Cinematography Award; Best Actor; Best Director; Kodak Award; Signis Award, Mar del Plata Film Festival 2002; Jury Prize, Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films 2002

Film on the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler. Taking Sides offers an intriguing examination of the role of an artist under a tyrannical regime - which, in the case of the Nazis, was one that revered classical music. To what extent can an individual be blamed for a society's atrocities

Director: Paul Czinner
Salzburg production with Cesare Siepe, Otto Edelmann, Lisa della Casa
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler

The first opera ever to be filmed and considered by many as one of the greatest production of this much loved opera

An exhibition of painted kettles by eminent senior artists; and paintings and sculptures around the theme of child labour and Right to Education

Inauguration by Nila Madhab Panda, well-known filmmaker on Friday, 31st May 2013 at 18:30

BY SHRI NILESH NEEL (A COLLECTION OF POETRY IN UDU AND HINDI)

PUBLISHED BY

PEN TO PRINT SOLUTIONS LIMITED, UNITED KINGDOM

TO BE RELEASED BY DR. ASHOK VAJPEYI, EMINENT HINDI POET AND CRITIC

CHAIR: DR. SURESH K. GOEL, DIRECTOR GENERAL, ICCR

(57 min; HDV; 2011; English)
Director: Chetan Shah who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film tracks the artistic and personal journey of painter S.G. Vasudev: his early years, the establishment of Cholamandal Artists' Village; his creative process; his collaborations with craftsmen; and his sustained efforts to nourish and foster the art world. The film structured around Vasudev's creation of a painting from start to finish, is a visually rich celebration of colour and texture

(74 min; 2012; HDV; English & with subtitles)
Director: Devika Gamkhar who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Film on the art of Saanjhi and the artisans from Braj region of Mathura, Vrindavan and Govardhan who have been practicing this age old tradition. Focusing on three artists, also brothers and their relationship with their art, the river Yamuna; on age-old Saanjhi songs sung by girls who make Saanjhi out of cowdung in Govardhan