Speakers: To be announced

Chair: Shri G.C. Chaturvedi, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Discussion and release of a book written by Pran Nevile

Panelists: To be announced

Lu Xun Culture Week - India: 15th to 20th November 2012
An exhibition of photographs

Inauguration on Thursday, 15th November, at 17:30

Illustrated lecture by Dr Henry Noltie, the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Chair: Shri Pradip Krishen, ecological gardener and author of Trees of Delhi

The lecture focuses on botanical drawings made by Indian artists for surgeons of the Scottish East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries

Panelists: Shri Mast Ram Kapoor, socialist thinker, and editor, Ram Manohar Lohia's Collected Works; Smt Aruna Roy, activist, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan; and Shri Sudhakar Reddy, General Secretary, CPI

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Commemorating the day in 1947 Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi

At 10:30 in the Gandhi-King Plaza
Reading from Gandhiji's Broadcast and Presentation of Songs
By choirs of different schools of Delhi NCR

Recalling the role of Usha Mehta's Underground Radio in the Quit India Movement and her arrest on November 12, 1942
Remembering and honouring legendary broadcasters of All India Radio

Chief Guest: Justice Markandey Katju, Chairman, Press Council of India (tbc)

From 11:45 onwards in the Auditorium
Why is Public Service Broadcasting Critical of India's Democratic Polity?
Core presentation: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Jan Prasar

Participants will include broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, academics, activists, media persons and students of broadcast journalism from media institutions in Delhi NCR

11:00 am

The Contemporary Frame: A Festival of Films

Film to be announced

2:00 pm

Linha de Passe (Brazil)
(108 min; 2008; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas

5:00 pm

GOLDEN JUBILEE LECTURE
Higher Education - The Challenge of the BRICs: Higher Education and Development in Brazil, Russia, India and China
Speaker: Prof. Philip G. Altbach, Monan University Professor, Director, Center for International Higher Education, USA

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

Venue: Auditorium

(Collaboration: FICCI and Planning Commission)

6:30 pm

Carnatic Violin Duet
Presented by Ganesh and Kumaresh
Accompanists: R. Sankaranarayanan (mridangam); and Trichy Krishna (ghatam)

8:00 pm

Food Festival: Hariharan's Kerala Repast

Tea/Coffee and snacks will be served in the Gandhi-King Plaza from 11 am to 7 pm on payment
Admission to all the cultural programmes are free of charge. For the film screenings, entry passes will be issued 30 minutes before each screening. Dinners on payment

  Venues:
  Cultural performances  -  Rose Garden
  Film screenings   -  Auditorium
  Cuisine    -  Main verandah lawns

11:00 am

The Contemporary Frame: A Festival of Films
The Secret in their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos; Argentina)
(129 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Juan José Campanella

2:00 pm

Footnote (Hearat shulayim; Israel)
(103 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Joseph Cedar

4:00 pm

The Bad Intentions (Las Malas Intenciones; Peru)
(110 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Rosario Garcia-Montero

5:00 pm

IIC Quarterly Release: Autumn
Edited by Omita Goyal

To be released by Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

Venue: Gandhi-King Plaza

6:30 pm

Levantasy
East-West Intercultural Adventures in Music
Presented by the Kepera Trio from The Netherlands - Rembrandt Frerichs (grand piano, shruti box); Tony Overwater (upright bass); and Vinsent Planjer (drums, tombak)
With Yoram Lachisch from Israel (oboe, English horn, zurna, shenai)

8:00 pm   

Food Festival: Chef Vijay's Continental Cuisine (ONLY FOR IIC MEMBERS)

9:00 pm

The Contemporary Frame: A Festival of Films

Film to be announced

11:00 am

The Contemporary Frame: A Festival of Films

When We Leave (Die fremde; Germany)
(119 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Feo Aladag

2:00 pm

Film to be announced
4:30 pm

A Screaming Man (Un home qui crie; France/Belgium/Chad)
(92 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

6:30 pm

8:00 pm

Food Festival: Bangladeshi Wedding Feast  (ONLY FOR IIC MEMBERS)

(Collaboration: Bangladesh High Commission)

9:00 pm

The Contemporary Frame: A Festival of Films

Film to be announced