Policies for Sustainable Agriculture
Keynote speakers: Shri Siraj Hussain, Secretary (Agri & Coop), Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India; and Dr. R.B. Singh, former President, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
 
Chair: Shri Syed S. Mahdi, former Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia University

 
Pre-Requisites of Good Governance
Speaker: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee
 
Chair: Shri Ajit Prakash Shah
 
 

Lead presentation by Ratnottama Sengupta, senior journalist, author, film festival programmer and art curator

 

Speakers: Prof. Indra Nath Choudhuri, academic, administration and cultural diplomacy; author and Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Literature; Prof. Malashri Lal, Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi; and

Shri Arunava Sinha, well-known translator of classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English

 

This discussion is part of the IIC Film Club programme Languages of a Globalised World: Festival of Regional Cinema curated by Ratnottama Sengupta

 

By Sangini Kumar and Ayushi Madan, disciples of Smt Kiran Segal

An exhibition of emerging and contemporary artists
Curators: Dolly Narang and Siddhartha Tagore
 
Preview on Wednesday, 9 September 2015 at 18:30

Shri Vishwajyoti Ghosh, graphic novelist and cartoonist; Shri Sudhir Tailang, political cartoonist; and Ms Urvashi Butalia, Director, Zubaan – an imprint of Kali for Women will discuss Out of Line: Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary India by Christel Rashmi Devadawson (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2014)

 

Chair: Sir William Mark Tully, senior journalist

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra
 
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s – Eye View of the World (120 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Director: Michael Schwarz
 
Based on Michael Pollan’s best – selling book showing how human desires are an essential and intricate part of natural history. The film explores the natural history of four plants – the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato – and the corresponding human desires – sweetness, beauty, intoxication and controlling nature that link their destinies to our own. One of the great conceits of human civilization is to put ourselves outside nature. Taking these plants’ perspectives of the world restores human activity to its proper place in the matrix of nature
 

imkuti: Memories of Dust, Sounds and Agonies (56 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Dheeman Bhattacharyya

Produced by Apne Aap Women Worldwide

 

Shot on location across villages in Gujarat and Bengal, the film is an outcome of the research conducted by Apne Aap Women Worldwide in collaboration with ICSSR on the Educational Attainment of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes in the six states of India). It explores the issues of growing marginalization of the DNT community and their eco system in the neo-liberal society

 

Followed by a discussion

Panelists: Prof. Ramnika Gupta, author of Aadivasi Asmita ka Sankat  and Editor of Yuddhrat Aam Admi; and Dheeman Bhattacharyya, filmmaker

 

Moderator: Ruchika Gupta, Professor New York University and Founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide

 

Illustrated presentation in Hindi by Professor Tomio Mizokami, Professor Emeritus, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan
 
Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

By Vishal Krishna from Varanasi, disciple of the late Smt Sitara Devi and recipient of the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship 2015
 
Accompanists: Kushal Krishna (tabla); Brijesh Mishra (vocal); Kamal Ahmad (sarangi); and Yar Mohammad (sitar)