No Greater Love (105 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Director: Michael Whyte

A highly acclaimed, multiple award winning documentary, this film is an account of life inside the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in London's Nottinghill. The film offers a unique insight into the closed world of the nuns of the monastery wherein each of the modern world's material necessity is rejected. Interviews with the nuns tell a tale of their faith, their moments of doubt, their belief in prayers and their lives

Three books will be discussed: Let's Call Him Vasu with the Maoists in Chhattisgarh by Shabhranshu Choudhruy (New Delhi: Penguin, 2012); The Third Dimension: Air Power in Combating the Maoist Insurgency by A.K. Agarwal (New Delhi: Vij Books, 2013); and Consultation on the Fifth Schedule and Tribal Rights, Occasional Paper no.1 (New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research, March 2013)

Panelists: Avm Kapil Kak; Shri G.K. Pillai; and Shri E.N. Rammohan

Chair: Shri B.G. Verghese

Films on the concept of ten minute theatre pioneered by the Australian Short & Sweet Theatre Festival. The films show case the essence of the format that is relevant to today's short-on-time and attention-span world

Introduction: Sohaila Kapur

The Dance of Bhakti: Bhakti as a Foundation of Indian Experience
Speaker: Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami, Vrindavan

Bhakti or devotion has been the foundation of human, more so, of the Indian experience. The saints and philosophers have regarded it as the core of social and spiritual discipline. Not only the literary, artistic, architectural and a variety of cultural expressions stand upon the foundation of bhakti, the economic and political directions also often times guided by bhakti. What is that dance of bhakti?

The largest tree census by citizens in Delhi and the first in NDMC area

Presentation on the Jorbagh Tree Census by Shri Lalit Agarwal, Jorbagh RWA

Followed by a discussion on The Citizen's Tree Census Campaign - The Way Forward

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi

A series of animation films made by children between the ages of 8 to 16 years. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, children from Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala and Nagaland explain the idea of non-violence to children of the world through these films

Directed by Nitin Donde who will introduce the films and lead a discussion after the screening

Speaker: Archana Shah, textile revivalist and founder of Bandhej

Chief Guest: Laila Tyabji, Chairperson, Dastkar
Chair: Ritu Sethi

As part of the programme, there will be release of the book Shifting Sands: Kutch - Textiles, Traditions, Transformations

Readings by Anna Sujatha Mathai, well-known Indian English poet who will read from her latest collection

Chair: Prof. Harish Trivedi, University of Delhi

Rabindranath Tagore's classic play adapted in Urdu
Dance-drama presented by Living Opera
Director: Sheikh Khairuddin
Music Director: Sujata Pal

Written in 1912, Dakghar (The Post Office) is the story of Amal, a terminally ill eight-year-old boy, who is confined indoors. His only contact with the outside world is through his window from where he watches the village life, engages passers-by in eager conversation and is fascinated by a new Post Office visible in the distance. Amal with his touching curiosity, teaches others life's simple but essential truths while awaiting his own spiritual liberation