A Tale of Two Cities: The Literary Heritages of Krakow and Delhi
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Praful Bidwai, senior journalist; and Shri Roshan Seth, actor will discuss Revolution from Above: India's Future and the Citizen Elite (New Delhi: Rupa, 2013) by Dipankar Gupta
Chair: Prof. Madhavan K. Palat
The Sacred India
Speakers: Prof. Axel Michaels, scholar of Indology and Religious Studies, University of Heidelberg; and Shri Amit Pasricha, well-known photographer and one of the foremost names in Panoramic Photography who will be making a slide presentation
Chair: Shri Satinder K. Lambah, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India
Talk based on their award winning book which documents and explains the manifold religious life in India
"Consider Yourself at Home": Celebrating Charles Dickens - 21st to 23rd February 2014
Film
Nicholas Nickleby (UK)
(127 min; 2002; dvd; English)
Director: Douglas McGrath
Recipient of the Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble, National Board of Review, USA 2002
With Jamie Bell; Jim Broadbent; Tom Courtney; Alan Cummings; Edward Fox; Anne Hathaway
At 15:00 in Conference Room I
Round table discussion on Dickens and His Afterlives
Panelists: Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Professor, University of Exeter; Prof. Baidik Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi; and Prof. Sambudha Sen, University of Delhi
At 17:30 in the Auditorium
"˜Please Sir, May I Have Some More?' - An Evening with Oliver Twist and Other Worthies
Presented by Aching Shaiza, Mino Maneckshaw, Reuben Israel
Accompanied on the piano by Kyoko Ito
Dicken's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives is relieved by his tongue-in-cheek humour. The presentation includes readings from the novel and dramatized songs from the 1970s musical using illustrations by George Cruikshank, Dickens' contemporary and the original illustrator of most of his books
"Consider Yourself at Home": Celebrating Charles Dickens - 21st to 23rd February 2014
Film screenings at 10:00 & 12:30
A Tale of Two Cities (UK)
(117 min; 1958; dvd; English)
Director: Ralph Thomas
With Dirk Bogarde; Dorothy Tutin; Cecil Parker; Stephen Murray
At 12:30
The Pickwick Papers (UK)
(109 min; 1952; dvd; English)
Director: Noel Langley
With Hermione Gingold; Kathleen Harrison; James Hayter; Nigel Patrick
From 10:30 to 13:30 in Gandhi-King Plaza
Illustrating Dickens
A workshop for children conducted by Atanu Roy and Deepa Agarwal
At 15:30 in the Auditorium
"What the Dickens!"
An open quiz conducted by Aryapriya Ganguly
At 18:15 in the Auditorium
Of Frogs Expiring and Other Marvels: An Evening of Dickens Reading
Readings by Yatrik - Sunit Tandon, Giti Chandra and others