Speaker: Shri Kiran Rana, a practising sufi who has lived and worked with Fazal Inayat-Khan and is presently a guide or murshid in the tariqa (order) called the Sufi Way

 

Chair:   Dr. Anindita N. Balslev, Fouonder, Forum, Cross Cultural Conservation 

 

The question in this verse by Baba Bulhe Shah – which echoes an earlier poem of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi- arises naturally for everyone who makes the turn toward the inner life. This inquiry into who - or what – we are, our relationship to others, our connection in and to the One, becomes a beautiful deconstruction of self into essence, a transpiring, a joyous awakening. And for hundreds, thousands, over the years, it has been launched by this haunting, dancing, evocative line: “Bulha ki jana…”

 

Managing Subsidies & Expenditure 

Keynote speakers: Dr. Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor – ICRIER; and Dr. Kirit S. Parikh, Former Member, Planning Commission

           

Chair:  Shri Anand P. Gupta, Former Professor, IIM, Ahmadabad

The Lost Years – A Sea Turtle Odyssey – Director: Jeremy Hogarth

 

The Forest Man of India – Director: Ankur Didwania

 

Walking the Mountains – The Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh – Directors: Doel Trivedi & Gautam Pandey

 

Losing Nemo (animation) – Director: Douwe Van De Waf

 

Shifting Undercurrents – Women Seaweed Collectors of the Gulf of Mannar – Director: Rita Banerji

 

Dharani – Directors: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

 

City’s Step Child and The Dump Hill Dreams – Director: Pranab K. Aich

 

Education for Sustainable Development (animation) – Director: Ankit Pogula

 

The Silent Epidemic – Director: Ankita Bhasin

 

Malaria Solutions (animation) – Director: Carina Weber, PAN

 

Chilika – Jewel of Odisha – Director: Shekar Dattatri

 

A Story (animation) – Director: Laxmikanta Jena

 

Three Characters in Search of a Forest – Director: Krishnendu Bose

 

The Lost Years – A Sea Turtle Odyssey – Director: Jeremy Hogarth

 

The Forest Man of India – Director: Ankur Didwania

 

Walking the Mountains – The Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh – Directors: Doel Trivedi & Gautam Pandey

 

Losing Nemo (animation) – Director: Douwe Van De Waf

 

Shifting Undercurrents – Women Seaweed Collectors of the Gulf of Mannar – Director: Rita Banerji

 

Dharani – Directors: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

 

City’s Step Child and The Dump Hill Dreams – Director: Pranab K. Aich

 

Education for Sustainable Development (animation) – Director: Ankit Pogula

 

The Silent Epidemic – Director: Ankita Bhasin

 

Malaria Solutions (animation) – Director: Carina Weber, PAN

 

Chilika – Jewel of Odisha – Director: Shekar Dattatri

 

A Story (animation) – Director: Laxmikanta Jena

 

Three Characters in Search of a Forest – Director: Krishnendu Bose

 

A festival of 23 documentaries, shorts and animation films from India and abroad that focuses on different aspects of the environment. The films address issues of biodiversity, climate change, water, sustainability; and livelihoods. The festival also includes a panel discussion. Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link

 

Inauguration

Chief Guest: Smt Shovana Narayan

Introduction: Shri Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link

 

11:00 to 13:30 

Life Force 2  - Director: S. Nallamuthu

Belonging 

Student film workshop conducted by Ankit Pogula

 

Dammed – Directors: Kavita Bahl & Nandan Saxena

The Human Cost – director: Alexandra de Blas

 

14:00 to 15:30

Gaon Chodab Nahi – “We Will Not Leave Our Village” (musical) – Director: K.P. Sasi

 

Ningal Aranaye Kando – “Have You Seen the Aranaye?” – Director: Sunanda Bhat

 

15:30 – 17:00

Panel discussion on Shaping Contemporary Environmental Discourse – The Role of Media

Speakers: Pradip Saha, Director, Damage Control; Maneesh Pandey, Chief of National Bureau, Mail Today; and others

 

17:00 to 20:00

When Every Drop Counts – Director: Rishu Nigam

 

The Song of Niyamgiri (musical) – Director: Nirvi Kalpa

 

The Forgotten Tigers – Director: Krishnendu Bose

 

Curse of Karna – Directors: Nirvi Kalpa & Pranab Doley

 

Earth Witness – Director: Akanksha Joshi

Speakers: H E Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, Ambassador of Lithuania; Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, eminent Hindi Poet and Writer; Prof. Elena Jolanta Zabarskaitė, Director of Lithuanian Language Institute (Lithuania); and Dr. Vidya Shankar Aiyar,  former Executive Editor of CNN-IBN  

 

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul, President, The Poetry Society, India 

Speakers: Dr. Ajay M. Gondane, Jt Secretary, sAARC;; Professor Mahendra P. Lama; and Shri Eric Gonsalves

 

Chair : Shri I.P. Khosla

 

An exhibition of paintings in watercolour by Kunal Batra from Delhi

 

Inauguration by Shri Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art Tuesday, 2 December at 18:30