Chillia Taximen and the Social Infrastructures of Labour in Mumbai
Speaker: Dr. Tarini Bedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
The talk explores the urban taxi as a part of the debate over urban development, urban infrastructures and urban transport policies. Based on ongoing fieldwork with a community of Muslim taxi-drivers (the Chillia) in Mumbai for who taxi-driving is a hereditary profession that relies on kin, ethnic and linguistic networks
The Accessible Arctic
An exhibition of photographs from the archives of Canadian National Geographic featuring the Canadian Arctic region
Assembled and curated by the Canadian Museum of Nature
As part of this exhibition, there will be screening of films on Friday, 16th August 2013 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Lords of the Arctic (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Caroline Underwood
The film focuses on the Northern wildlife and its close and tragic relation to climate change, which affects all of the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. A wildlife specialist, the filmmaker uses a global approach in treating her subjects
People of the Ice (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Carlos Ferrand
This feature documentary explores the threats of global warming to the Arctic environment that has nurtured the Inuit for 4,000 years. The Inuit have lived in harmony on this frozen landscape for generations. Today, global warming threatens their habitat. As the ice disappears, so does the Inuit culture it is intimately connected to. Will this extraordinarily resilient people be able to adjust to such dramatic change?
Environment and Health Public Lecture Series
Panelists: Shri Himanshu Thakkar, Coordinator, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People; Dr. Chandan Ghosh, Professor & Head (GeoHazards), National Institute of Disaster Management, NIDM; and Prof. Chandra Shekhar Dubey, Professor & Head, Department of Geology, University of Delhi
Concert
Bharatanatyam Recital
CANCELLED
By Kavitha Ramu from Chennai, disciple of Smt K.J. Sarasa
Philanthropy, Charity, Nation-Building and CSR
18th Prem Bhatia Memorial Lecture
Navigating an Altered Landscape: Finding India's Place in a Changing World
Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and presently, Chairman, National Security Advisory Board
Chair: Shri M.K. Rasgotra
Growth, Equity and Poverty
Panelists: Dr. Ashoka Mody, Professor of International Economic Relations, Princeton University, USA and formerly with The World Bank-IMF; Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Professor, Centre for Policy Research and formerly Secretary General FICCI; and Dr. Ram Gopal Agarwal, formerly with the IMF and Asian Development Bank and author of Catching Up with China
Chair: Air Marshall (Retd.) Vir Narain, Chairman, Indian Humanist Union
Plural Cultures and Monolithic Structures - Comprehending India
Release and discussion around the book by Kapila Vatsyayan
The book will be released by Dr. Karan Singh, MP, President Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Followed by a panel discussion
Panelists: Prof. Basudev Chatterji, Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research; Prof. Harish Trivedi, former Professor of English, University of Delhi; and Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO Prasar Bharati
Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director IIC
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness
(80 min; 2003; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Ovidio Salazar
Recipient of the Special Prize, Religions of Peace, Trento, Italy 2004; Special Prize, Contributions to Islamic Thought and Culture, Golden Minbar, Kazan 2005
Born in 1058 in present-day Iran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was one of the most original thinkers the world has known. His influence has surpassed the Muslim world and has inspired major figures of medieval philosophy, such as Thomas Aquinas and Moses Maimonides, who have shaped the philosophy of the Latin West. The film sets out to discover who Al-Ghazali was and whether we, living in the 21st century, can still find relevance in his teaching