Texts and Textures: Navarasas in Mahabharata Through Songs and Stories

07 June 2013, 05:30 am
Texts and Textures: Navarasas in Mahabharata Through Songs and Stories
Programme Type
Cultural

An engaging and innovative performance that freely mingles songs and stories and is a re-telling of stories, episodes, moments, anecdotes from the epic along with rendering of classical music that captures the emotions of the Navarasas

Presented by V.R. Devika, renowned Chennai-based storyteller and Sushma Somasekharan, Carnatic Vocalist
Accompanied by Akshay Ananthapadmanaban on mridangam and kanjira

Galapagos Islands

06 June 2013, 05:30 am
Galapagos Islands
Programme Type
Talks

Illustrated lecture by Sudha Mahalingam, travel writer and photographer who will speak about her recent trip to the unique islands which played a key role in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

Chair: Shri Ravi Singh, CEO, World Wide Fund for Nature-India

FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH

06 June 2013, 05:30 am
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH

Spiritual Warriors (99 min; dvd; English)
Director: David Raynr

The story of Finn, an out-of-work actor involved in a messy drug deal, who forms an intriguing friendship with Roger - a compelling and patient spiritual teacher. It is under his guidance that Finn realizes the truth of his spiritual nature and the purpose of his life

Odissi Recital

05 June 2013, 05:30 am
Odissi Recital
Programme Type
Cultural
By Barkha Tanvir from Delhi, disciple of Guru Anita Babu

To Mark World Environment Day 2013 Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi - 2025

05 June 2013, 05:30 am
To Mark World Environment Day 2013 Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi - 2025
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building

Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi - 2025
Panelists: Dr. Mahesh N. Buch, Chairman, National Centre for Human Settlements and Environment, Bhopal and former Vice-Chairman, National Urbanisation Commission; Prof. C.R. Babu, Emeritus Professor, CEMDE, University of Delhi; Shri G.S. Patnaik, IAS, Secretary to the Vice-President of India and former Vice-Chairman, DDA; Shri Sanjiv Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Environment & Forests, Govt. of NCT Delhi; Shri Manoj Kumar Misra, Convener, Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan and formerly in the Indian Forest Service; Shri Rajendra Ravi, Director, Institute for Democracy and Sustainability, Delhi; and Dr. Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle Delhi

Sahita: Lecture Series on the Arts, Cultures and Histories of India

04 June 2013, 05:30 am
Sahita: Lecture Series on the Arts, Cultures and Histories of India
Programme Type
Talks

Musical Routes: Reading History, Society and Emotion Through How Music Travels

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University

Second lecture in a new series of lectures organised in collaboration with Sahapedia, an online repository of resources on the arts, cultures and histories of India (and broadly South Asia) with a view to bringing current scholarship on Indian culture and heritage to a wider public

Taking Sides (108 min; 2001; dvd; English)

04 June 2013, 05:30 am
Taking Sides (108 min; 2001; dvd; English)

Director: István Szabó

Multiple award winner including Special Award, Hungarian Film Critics Awards 2003; ADF Cinematography Award; Best Actor; Best Director; Kodak Award; Signis Award, Mar del Plata Film Festival 2002; Jury Prize, Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films 2002

Film on the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler. Taking Sides offers an intriguing examination of the role of an artist under a tyrannical regime - which, in the case of the Nazis, was one that revered classical music. To what extent can an individual be blamed for a society's atrocities

Mozart's Don Giovanni (177 min; 1954; dvd; English subtitles)

01 June 2013, 05:30 am
Mozart's Don Giovanni (177 min; 1954; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Paul Czinner
Salzburg production with Cesare Siepe, Otto Edelmann, Lisa della Casa
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler

The first opera ever to be filmed and considered by many as one of the greatest production of this much loved opera

Arte-Kettle Garden

01 June 2013, 05:30 am
Arte-Kettle Garden

An exhibition of painted kettles by eminent senior artists; and paintings and sculptures around the theme of child labour and Right to Education

Inauguration by Nila Madhab Panda, well-known filmmaker on Friday, 31st May 2013 at 18:30

A BOOK LAUNCH - LIFE

28 May 2013, 05:30 am
A BOOK LAUNCH - LIFE
Programme Type
Discussions

 

BY SHRI NILESH NEEL (A COLLECTION OF POETRY IN UDU AND HINDI)

PUBLISHED BY

PEN TO PRINT SOLUTIONS LIMITED, UNITED KINGDOM

TO BE RELEASED BY DR. ASHOK VAJPEYI, EMINENT HINDI POET AND CRITIC

CHAIR: DR. SURESH K. GOEL, DIRECTOR GENERAL, ICCR