Carnatic Vocal Recital
By Isaimamani G. Elangovan

Followed by
Hindustani Flute Recital
By Pt. Ronu Majumdar

Miturang Festival: 9th and 10th March 2013
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Vidushi Bindu Chawla

Followed by
Taal Vadya Kacheri
Presented by Pt. Sudhir Pandey (tabla); M.V. Chandrasekhar (mridangam); and K. Ramamurthy (ghatam)

Speaker: Dr. Sudhir Khandelwal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Chair: Dr Avdesh Sharma, Consultant psychiatrist and producer of television serials on mental health

Through The Eastern Gate (52 min; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Mironel de Wilde

The film traces the aspirations, practices and beliefs of three young people who follow different eastern spiritual traditions. Shot in picturesque locales of India and Turkey, the film explores the worlds of people who have declined Western spiritual traditions and have sought new transcendent meaning in their lives

Shri Inder Malhotra, eminent journalist and author; Shri K.P. Singh, former Director, IB; and Shri K.C. Singh, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs will discuss My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir: 10th Edition by Jagmohan (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2012)

Chair: Admiral (Retd.) K.K. Nayyar

Speakers:  Dr. Jane Kenway, Professorial Fellow, Australian Research Council and Professor of Education, Monash University; Dr. Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Global Studies in Education, University of Melbourne; Dr. Johannah Fahey, Research Fellow in Education, Monash University;  Smt Ameeta Wattal, Principal, Springdales School, Pusa Road and Vice Chairperson, NPSC;
and Shri Amit Kaushik, Managing Director, Educomp Infrastructure and School Management, Ltd.

Chair:Dr. Abha Adams

Bharatamata ki Jai (27 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Amol Ranjan; Anurag Mazumdar; Arpita Chakraborty; Avadhoot Khanolkar; & Shweta Radhakrishnan
A lively and exuberant story of a 75 - year old cinema based in Mumbai's working class locality

Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers

Vanity Box (21 min; 2011; short fiction; India)
Director: Diksha Grover
Stories come tumbling out in a beauty parlour. What really lies inside the vanity box?

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Boxing Ladies (26 min; 2010; documentary; India)
Director: Anusha Nandakumar
The story of three remarkable sisters, national level women boxers who also happen to be Muslim

Colours (4 min; 2012; short fiction; Iran)
Director: Naghmeh Dehghani
A child's hand draws a picture; the picture changes as the home environment changes

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

20 Fingers (72 min; 2004; feature; Iran)
Director: Mania Akbari
A precisely crafted film with just two actors revealing the divergent points of view of men and women

From 14:30 - 16:00
My Sweet Baby (68 min; 2010; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Ryu Mi-rye
The director observes herself as a mother and as a person during the past 10 years as she brings up three children

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 16:20 - 18:10
Presence (17 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Yashaswini B. R. & Ekta Mittal
A film about stories of ghosts narrated by migrant workers who inhabit a city in transition

Where Do I Belong? (68 min; 2008; documentary; Iran)
Director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
A powerful documentary on Iranian women who marry Afghan men and live on either side of the Iran-Afghanistan border

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 18:30 - 20:10
The Girl Princess (81 min; 2011; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Kim Hye-jung
The film looks at traces of female Gukgeuk, a type of Korean musical with an all female cast, which enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Vayro (20 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Director: Aashini Shah
A film about three middle-aged people who are trying to bond with a younger generation

Assimilation (20 min; 2012; short fiction; Hong Kong)
Director: Cheung Wai Yin
Britman, a little boy who grows up in Hong Kong with a British-style education and his struggles in secondary school where Chinese and Mandarin is the norm

The Two Lines (82 min; 2011; documentary; South Korea)
Director: Ji-min
A filmmaker questions the meaning of marriage through her own story of being an unwed mother

From 14:15 to 16:00
Rup Rupantar (19 min; 2009; documentary; India)
Director: Viveka Chauhan
A film about the folk art form of Bohurupias, who are trying to keep their own space in a modern world

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

My Grandfather's Yakshi (14 min; 2011; short fiction; India)
Director: Anoodha Kunnath
A young man reminiscences about his late grandfather, reliving a story once told to him

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Sawali (16 min; 2012; short fiction; India)
Director: Arya Rothe
A young woman can't eat, smell, digest food. Her hunger creates a shadow that eats

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Dhadi: The Ballads of Punjab (16 min; 2011; documentary; India)
Director: Nupur Nijhawan
Film on Dhadi Kala or the tradition of reciting tales from history accompanied by the powerful strains of folk music to glorify a patron which has survived many masters through the centuries until today

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

From 16:20 to 18:15
Because (17 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Director: Neetole Mitra
An attempt to understand power struggles in a romantic man-woman relationships

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

The Creeper, the Alien & Other Stories (21 min; 2011; documentary; India)
Director: Sandhya Ramachandran
Ashish Lakhia tells us about The Creeper, the Alien & other stories through objects that he has collected over the years

Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Breakin' Mumbai (33 min; 2012; documentary; India)
Directors: Aakriti Kholi; Gin Khan Siam; Sandeep Kumar Singh; Shweta Ghosh; & Sumit Singh
The film tries to understand the dynamics of breaking; exploring questions of space and the avenues for leisure in Mumbai

Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers