Exhibitions, performances, film screenings

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(76 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Director: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee

The Human Factor tells the fascinating story of the Lords, a Parsi family of musicians who collectively worked for over 60 years in Mumbai's film orchestras. But the story of the Lords is not theirs alone. It also remains a crucial but obscure chapter in the history of Indian cinema. Using rare archival material, the film provides viewers with a subaltern history of Bollywood

Speaker: Dr. Jamyang Dolma, Head, Clinical Research Department, Men-Tsee-Khang, Dharamsala

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC-Asia Project

Health in general, according to Tibetan medicine is based on the harmony of physical and mental state. Therefore the approach to mental health in Tibetan medicine deals with harmonizing the disturbed mind by understanding the mind, its nature and its connection with the body's principle energies which is basically related to the five elements

No Greater Love (105 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Director: Michael Whyte

A highly acclaimed, multiple award winning documentary, this film is an account of life inside the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in London's Nottinghill. The film offers a unique insight into the closed world of the nuns of the monastery wherein each of the modern world's material necessity is rejected. Interviews with the nuns tell a tale of their faith, their moments of doubt, their belief in prayers and their lives

Three books will be discussed: Let's Call Him Vasu with the Maoists in Chhattisgarh by Shabhranshu Choudhruy (New Delhi: Penguin, 2012); The Third Dimension: Air Power in Combating the Maoist Insurgency by A.K. Agarwal (New Delhi: Vij Books, 2013); and Consultation on the Fifth Schedule and Tribal Rights, Occasional Paper no.1 (New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research, March 2013)

Panelists: Avm Kapil Kak; Shri G.K. Pillai; and Shri E.N. Rammohan

Chair: Shri B.G. Verghese

Films on the concept of ten minute theatre pioneered by the Australian Short & Sweet Theatre Festival. The films show case the essence of the format that is relevant to today's short-on-time and attention-span world

Introduction: Sohaila Kapur

The Dance of Bhakti: Bhakti as a Foundation of Indian Experience
Speaker: Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami, Vrindavan

Bhakti or devotion has been the foundation of human, more so, of the Indian experience. The saints and philosophers have regarded it as the core of social and spiritual discipline. Not only the literary, artistic, architectural and a variety of cultural expressions stand upon the foundation of bhakti, the economic and political directions also often times guided by bhakti. What is that dance of bhakti?