Quotes from the Earth: An Environment Film Festival – 5 and 6 December 2014
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
Kristijonas Donelaitis : Celebrating 300 years of the Classical Poet of Modern Lithuanian Literature
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
Sitar Recital
By Dhruv Bedi from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Budhaditya Mukherjee
SAARC: Kathmandu and Beyond
Speakers: Dr. Ajay M. Gondane, Jt Secretary, sAARC;; Professor Mahendra P. Lama; and Shri Eric Gonsalves
Chair : Shri I.P. Khosla
Carnatic Vocal – Padams and Javalis of Smt T. Muktha
A tribute by Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy to mark the birth centenary of her Guru, Smt T. Muktha
In Mountain Light: Journeys Within
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
Disclosure Matters - The first step towards Business Responsibility: A Level of Disclosure analysis of BRRs of top 100 listed Companies
Release of a civil society analysis of BRR Reports, Part I by Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee
Mohiniyattam Collective - A Global Festival of Mohiniyattam
Mohiniyattam Recital
By Olga Stoliarova from Russia
Kieko Okana from Japan
Mohiniyattam Collective - A Global Festival of Mohiniyattam: 1 and 2 December 2014
A festival of Mohiniyattam presenting artists from abroad. Each evening there will be two performances
Mohiniyattam Recital
By Alexandra Vodopyonova from Russia
Anna Dietrich from Germany
Celebrating the Birth Centenary of Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
Living and Creating In Light of India
A programme celebrating the life and work of the Nobel Laureate poet, writer and diplomat from Mexico with presentations, readings of poems and reminiscences by those who knew him personally and others
Presentations by Shri Krishen Khanna, well-known artist; Shri Prayag Shukla, poet, fiction writer, translator, art critics & curator; Prof. S.P. Ganguly, former Professor, Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies, JNU; and Prof. Minni Sawhney, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Dept. of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi and Dean of Arts Faculty & Head of Department who is a specialist in Latin American and Spanish Golden Age Literature
Coordinator: Prof. Vibha Maurya