A festival presenting seven award-winning films which paint a colourful portrait of the Estonian people who, despite all odds, have resisted multiple conquests and kept their freedom. Organised in collaboration with Embassy of Estonia and Estonian Film Institute

 

Ash and Money (100 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Ene-Liis Semper, Tiit Ojasoo, Rein Kotov

 

In March 2010, the Estonian theatre NO99 took a decision to expose the corrupt practices of Estonian politics in a provocative way: it announced it would start a new political party, Unified Estonia. The film follows the progress of this unique project which also won international recognition

By Dr. Sunita Jain, well-known  poet writing in Hindi

 

Chair: Dr. Tarannum  Riyaz   

 

In Conversation 

Nilima Sheikh in conversation with Gayatri Sinha and Latika Gupta

 

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

Salt, Robes and Blood: A Historical Code of Honor and Loyalty that Spread from Spain to China

Illustrated lecture by Stewart Gordon, Senior Research Scholar, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan and author of The Marathas (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

 

Chair: Sunil Kumar, Professor, Dept. of History, University of Delhi

 

Everyone across North India, Central India and the Deccan knows the term “Namak Halal”, that is, to act loyally to one’s “salt”. And everyone has seen the presentation of a Kashmiri shawl to an honoured guest. Virtually no one realizes, however, that these two seemingly disparate events are the remnants of a vast system of loyalty and honor that allowed men to move across a huge swath of Asia and find employment as soldiers, clerics, administrators, philosophers, even ambassadors

 

CANCELLED

 

To be delivered by Smt Sujahta Singh, Foreign Secretary 

 

Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo – German Societies in India

 

A talk by Shri A.N.D. Haksar, former Indian Ambassador, scholar and translator of several Sanskrit texts including  the Jatakamala

 

Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra

An exhibition of illustrations by Sujata Singh, Suddhasattwa Basu and Mala Marwah

 

Preview on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 18:30

 

This exhibition brings together three artists showcasing illustration art – published and unpublished, created over the last three decades. The body of work on view highlights the scope and range of illustrations as they interact, illumine and work in tandem with a piece of written text

Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and former Chairman, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB)

 

Chair: Shri Vijay Naik

 

The third annual lecture organised by IAFAC