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
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
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
"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
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
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