Texts and Textures: Navarasas in Mahabharata Through Songs and Stories
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
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
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
To Mark World Environment Day 2013 Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi - 2025
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
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)
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