The IIC Experience Festival: A Fesival of the Arts

Programmes details may please see in the link

10.00 am     Welcome

                    Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director, IIC

10.05 am   Introduction to Chair, Speakers and the Review

                   Dr. Shekhar Shah, Director-General, NCAER

10.10 am     Opening remarks by Chair

                    Dr. Bimal Jalan, Former RBI Governor and ex-

                    President NCAER Governing Body

10.20 am   The Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy

                   Dr. Shashanka Bhide, Senior Research

                   Counselor,  NCAER

10.45 am   Industry: Not Doing Business in Recent Times

                   Dr. B.N. Goldar, Professor, Institute of Economic     

                   Growth

11.10 am  Agriculture : In Search of the Second Green

                 Revolution

                  Dr. Anil Sharma, Senior Fellow, NCAER

11.35 am  Tea Break

12.00 noon  Comments by Invited Experts

                    Dr. Sudipto Mundle, Member, National Statistical 

                    Commission and  Emeritus  Professor, NIPFP

                     Dr. Rana Hasan, Principal Economist, Asian 

                     Development Bank

12.30 pm     General Discussion

1.15 pm       Closing remarks by the Chair

                      Dr. Bimal Jalan

1.25 pm        Vote of Thanks

Speakers: Ms Monique La Fontaine and Ms Sharmila Wood, curators at FORM, a cultural organization in Perth

Chair: Ms Ritu Sethi, Chairperson, Craft Revival Trust

The talk will focus on two projects, "Ngurra Kuju Walyja"”One Country One People: The Canning Stock Route Project" and "Digitizing Traditional Knowledge Systems", the Fortescue River project

(77 min; 2010; dvd; Assamese with English subtitles)
Director: Merajur Rahman Baruah

Second Best Film Award, Jeevika - Asia Livelihood Documentary Film Festival 2010

A film on the Mobile Theatre of Assam which visits towns and villages carrying tents, stage equipment, generators and even its own auditoria, and performs for 210 nights without a break

The film will be introduced by the filmmaker, and the screening will be followed by a discussion

Day of Mindfulness
With monks, nuns and lay teachers in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Includes sitting, walking and eating meditation, deep relaxation and other mindfulness practices. There will be a special programme for children above six years

Please bring a packed lunch, water and a mat, and register at ahimsatrust@gmail.com or call Charu at 9873226869

(32 min; 2012; dvd; English and with subtitles)
Directors: Sandhya Kumar and Justin McCarthy

A song that is full of love and yet earthy is the padam of Kshetrayya, a wandering poet-musician who wrote padams in Telugu in the 17th century, which were performed by the devadasi dancers who rose to prominence in the Nayaka courts. The film reflects on the entwined fortunes of the padams and the women they were written for, from the 17th to the 20th century

The film will be introduced by the filmmakers, and the screening will be followed by a discussion

Discussion around the new book edited by Prof Man Mohini Kaul, School of International Studies, JNU and Dr Vibhanshu Shekhar, ICWA

Introductory remarks by editors and by contributor Ms Ruth Rhea Khan, JNU

Panelists: Dr Sanjaya Baru, Director for Geo-economics and Strategy, IISS; Ambassador Rajiv Sikri, former Secretary, MEA; Prof Swaran Singh, School of International Studies, JNU

Chair: Admiral Sureesh Mehta, former High Commissioner to New Zealand (tbc)