Speaker: Professor Nalin Pant, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

 

Chair: Dr. Dinakar Salunke, Executive Director, UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology

 

Hastha Mudras, hand gestures used in classical Indian dance forms, form a distinct code language and bring unique poetic element while performing abhinaya. The language of the mudras thus enables the dancer to express practically anything and everything.  Using unbridled, the license of metaphor, this talk will attempt to illuminate the hidden world of the "Dance of Molecules"- the dance that creates our material world 

Banking Reforms

Keynote Speaker: Shri Pratip Chaudhuri, former Chairman, SBI

 

Chair: Shri D. K.  Mittal, Former Secretary Financial Services

 

Directed by Teena Amrit Gill who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film explores how Theravada Buddhist institutions in Thailand provide a social security network to boys in a country where a large percent of the population are poor, but fail to give girls and women access to these facilities. However, a small nun's institution in the north of Thailand provides girls with an opportunity to pursue their dreams

Re-contextualising Ajrakh textile traditions on Khadi in contemporary art and craft                                                                      

Textile installations, art works, clothing and spoken poetry video art

By Shelly Jyoti

Panelists:  Justice Leila Seth; Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Senior Advocate; Prof. Peter  D'Souza, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Prof. Tahir Mahmood; and Shri Seshadri Chari, BJP

 

Moderator: Shri B.G. Verghese

By Srishti Gupta from Bhopal, disciple of Smt Alpana Vajpeyi

 

An illustrated talk on the diffusion of Saivite myths to Southeast Asia by Dr. Sachidanand Sahai, expert  on Indian and Asian cultural relations and Advisor to APSARA Authority, a Royal Cambodian Government  Agency for the Safeguard of Angkor

 

Chief Guest: Shri Kamlesh, poet and art critic

 

Chair: Dr. Ganga Nath Jha, Professor and former Chairperson, Centre for Southeast  Asian Studies, JNU

 

10:00 to 13:30

Screenings and discussions Moderated by Manak Matiyani

 

The F Word (52 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Saba Rahman

The film chronicles and questions journey of self-discovery, of discrimination, conformity, stereotyping and the filmmaker’s negotiation with a bad body image  

 

11:30

Keep Talking (12 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Radhika Murthy 

Through a street play interrupted by conversations with a cross-section of men, the film engages exclusively with men on issues of patriarchy, equality and violence

 

Bol Ki Lab Aazad Hain Tere (12 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Sania Hashmi and Mohan Kumawat 

The film on sexual harassment in public places through the eyes of four women who live and work in the city 

 

12:45

Long Hair Short Ideas (26 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Pallavi Paul  

The film attempts to create a conversation between the pressures of excavating a political moment and the elasticity of the documentary form

 

14:30 to 20:30

Can’t Hide Me (26 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Madhuri Mohindar 

The film follows individuals who are taking extraordinary steps to reclaim the spaces that are rightfully theirs, fighting the often invisible barriers that keep women from freedom

 

15:30

Through the Looking Glass (08 min; dvd; 2006)

Director: Sheetal Gokhale and B. Prasad

The film spans a day in the life of a 24 year old man, caught by his sister experimenting with her clothes and make up one afternoon

 

15:45

Shame was a Place Inside (12 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Priyanka Chhabra

A moving train through the city. Reflections, windows and cars, carrying voices of people contemplating the nature of shame

 

16:30

Purple Skies (66 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Sridhar Rangayan

The film weaves together stories of pain, trauma, hope and happiness of lesbian, bisexual and trans (LBT) persons to offer an evocative, endearing tapestry of contemporary Indian LBT lives

 

18:00

Films  introduced by Prof. Shohini Ghosh

 

Mardistan (Macholand): Reflections on Indian Manhood (26 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Harjant Gill 

Through the experiences of four different men, ranging in age from 20s to 40s, Mardistan explores the notion of contemporary manhood in a rapidly globalising India

 

19:00

Being Bhaijaan (80 min; dvd; 2014)

Director: Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Farooqui

Bhaijaan explores Indian masculinity by mapping the emotional, spiritual and philosophical contribution Salman Khan makes to the lives of three men in small-town India