Silent Screams, India's Fight Against Rape (45 min; 2013; dvd; English & with subtitles))

22 November 2013, 05:30 am
Silent Screams, India's Fight Against Rape (45 min; 2013; dvd; English & with subtitles))

Director: Pria Somiah Alva

Script: Manira Alva Pinto

Produced by Miditech (P) Ltd. For Channel News Asia

 

Journalist/presenter: Namita Bhandare will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Film on the Nirbhaya rape and the fight against rape that followed in its brutal aftermath

Shahjahanabad: Embodying Principles of Mughal Rule

22 November 2013, 05:30 am
Shahjahanabad: Embodying Principles of Mughal Rule
Programme Type
Talks

Speaker: Dr. Swapna Liddle, INTACH Delhi Chapter

Chair: Dr. Shama Mitra Chenoy, University of Delhi

The city of Shahjahanabad was founded in the 17th century as the capital of the Mughal Empire. It followed upon a series of capital cities located at distinct sites in Delhi by earlier regimes. While not much remains of these earlier cities apart from some monumental buildings, Shahjahanabad retains much of its original urban grain - its street pattern, its shape and size, and many heritage buildings. This gives us the opportunity to examine the distinct characteristics of its plan; and in that plan we can see certain essential principles of Mughal rule

Singapore As a Gateway for Asian Children's Content

21 November 2013, 05:30 am
Singapore As a Gateway for Asian Children's Content
Programme Type
Talks

Speaker: Mr. R. Ramachandran, Executive Director, Asian Festival of Children's Content, National Book Development Council of Singapore and former Director, National Library Board Singapore

 

Chair: Prof. Avadhesh Kumar Singh, Director, School of Translation Studies, IGNOU

 

Book Discussion Group

20 November 2013, 05:30 am
Book Discussion Group
Programme Type
Discussions
Shri Pradip Baijal, formerly Chief, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India; Shri Yashwant S. Bhave, Chairperson, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority; Shri Swapan Dasgupta, Senior Journalist, India Today; and Shri Labanyendu Mansingh, former Chairman, Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board will discuss India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution: Democratizing Entrepreneurship (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2012) by Sumit K. Majumdar Chair: Shri T.N. Chaturvedi, former Governor of Karnataka

Surbahar Recital

20 November 2013, 05:30 am
Surbahar Recital
Programme Type
Cultural

By Ashwin Dalvi from Jaipur, disciple of Pt. Arvind Parikh

Followed by
Sitar Recital
By Sundar Nath from Bangalore, disciple of Pt. Arvind Parikh

"I am a Seed of the Tree"¦"

20 November 2013, 05:30 am
"I am a Seed of the Tree"¦"

An exhibition on the life cycle and rituals of the Bene Israel Jews of Ahmedabad
Photographs by Bindi Sheth and text by Esther David

This photo-documentation is part of a research grant received from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute of Brandeis University USA. The photographs have documented about 150 Ahmedabadi Bene Israel Jews in the last three years and captures the multicultural facet of Indian Jews as they try o preserve their Jewish identity in India

Opening on Tuesday, 19th November 2013 at 18:00

Followed by a talk at 18:30 in the Lecture Room II
The Bene Israel Jews of Ahmedabad
Speaker: Smt Esther David

Ahichhatra Through the Ages: Fresh Evidence

18 November 2013, 05:30 am
Ahichhatra Through the Ages: Fresh Evidence
Programme Type
Talks

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Bhuvan Vikrama, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

The talk on the story of the settlement at Ahichhatra in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh with all its glory and grandeur. The excavations at the site which began in 1862-63 through 1885, 1888, 1940-44, 1963-65, 2007-8-2012-2013 have unfolded a beautiful story of the evolution of a city from a small rustic village and the gradual evolution of its artistic and architectural style

Diaspora: A Tibetan Perspective

17 November 2013, 05:30 am
Diaspora: A Tibetan Perspective
Programme Type
Talks

Inheritance
With Tenzin Khepahk, Producer, Riverbank Studio

An initiative to provide a platform to young Tibetans in exile to present and discuss their ideas and suggestions to stimulate dialogue and improve networks of the vibrant Tibetan diaspora

Keeping the Promise: The GEF in Action (32 min; dvd; English)

16 November 2013, 05:30 am
Keeping the Promise: The GEF in Action (32 min; dvd; English)

Film on the activities of the Global Environment Facility or GEF. Hosted by the well-known actor, Harrison Ford, the film shows how rainforests, coral reefs etc are under attack and the rising emission of Green House Gasses destroying forests leading to an imbalance in nature

Fate of the Ocean (23 min; dvd; English)
Earth Report travels to over a dozen locations to report on the state of global fisheries. This first installment delivers stories that should ring alarm bells around the world

Films courtesy: Centre for Science and Environment