An exhibition of photographs from the archives of Canadian National Geographic featuring the Canadian Arctic region
Assembled and curated by the Canadian Museum of Nature

As part of this exhibition, there will be screening of films on Friday, 16th August 2013 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Lords of the Arctic (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Caroline Underwood

The film focuses on the Northern wildlife and its close and tragic relation to climate change, which affects all of the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. A wildlife specialist, the filmmaker uses a global approach in treating her subjects

People of the Ice (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Carlos Ferrand

This feature documentary explores the threats of global warming to the Arctic environment that has nurtured the Inuit for 4,000 years. The Inuit have lived in harmony on this frozen landscape for generations. Today, global warming threatens their habitat. As the ice disappears, so does the Inuit culture it is intimately connected to. Will this extraordinarily resilient people be able to adjust to such dramatic change?

CANCELLED

By Kavitha Ramu from Chennai, disciple of Smt K.J. Sarasa

Navigating an Altered Landscape: Finding India's Place in a Changing World
Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and presently, Chairman, National Security Advisory Board

Chair: Shri M.K. Rasgotra

Panelists: Dr. Ashoka Mody, Professor of International Economic Relations, Princeton University, USA and formerly with The World Bank-IMF; Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Professor, Centre for Policy Research and formerly Secretary General FICCI; and Dr. Ram Gopal Agarwal, formerly with the IMF and Asian Development Bank and author of Catching Up with China

Chair: Air Marshall (Retd.) Vir Narain, Chairman, Indian Humanist Union

Release and discussion around the book by Kapila Vatsyayan

The book will be released by Dr. Karan Singh, MP, President Indian Council for Cultural Relations

Followed by a panel discussion
Panelists:  Prof. Basudev Chatterji, Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research;  Prof. Harish Trivedi, former Professor of English, University of Delhi; and Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO Prasar Bharati

Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director IIC

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness
(80 min; 2003; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Ovidio Salazar

Recipient of the Special Prize, Religions of Peace, Trento, Italy 2004; Special Prize, Contributions to Islamic Thought and Culture, Golden Minbar, Kazan 2005

Born in 1058 in present-day Iran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was one of the most original thinkers the world has known. His influence has surpassed the Muslim world and has inspired major figures of medieval philosophy, such as Thomas Aquinas and Moses Maimonides, who have shaped the philosophy of the Latin West. The film sets out to discover who Al-Ghazali was and whether we, living in the 21st century, can still find relevance in his teaching

Shri Vishwanath Tripathi; Dr. Baran Faruqui; Prof. Shamim Hanfi; and Shri Avinash Das will discuss The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (New Delhi: Penguin, 2013)

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi