Poetry Readings by Srimati Lal, Writers' Workshop, Kolkata

Chair: Shri Keshav Malik

(56 min; dvd; 2010; English)

Directed by Sundaram Tagore who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

While examining aesthetics in the context of globalization, this documentary explores the life and work of painter Natvar Bhavsar, a pioneer who paved the way for subsequent generations of artists. The central theme of the film is the multicultural nature of his work and how that has influenced the trajectory of his career from his upbringing in India to his move to New York

Speaker: Dr. Chandrika Kaul, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK

The Independence of India represented the first major decolonization of the twentieth century. The lecture will focus on the key months during the spring and summer of 1947 and will examine issues of official publicity and the role of the media in portraying an image of empire and by implication Britain in a precarious post war world

Chair: Mrs. Sebanti Ninan

By Mita Haldar from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Ajoy Chakraborty

Presented by Viola da Cunha (mezzo soprano) with Justin McCarthy (piano)

The artists will present an evening of lieder, English and Spanish songs

Promoting authors in translation worldwide

Speaker: Ms Anne-Solange Noble, Director of Foreign Rights, Gallimard Publishers

 in conversation with Patricia Stansfield (International Rights Director,

Flammarion Publishers)

Below Count: Medical Services for the Homeless in Delhi

Speakers: Smt Suryakanthi Tripathi, Trustee, India Foundation & Director, Free Medical Clinic, Lodhi Colony;

Dr. Anoop Saraya, Professor of Gastroenterology, AIIMS; Dr. Amod Kumar, Head, Department of Community Medicine, St. Stephen's Hospital, Delhi; and Shri Miloon Kothari, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker

A Bharatanatyam Recital

By Sunita Menon with a group  from Delhi  Disciples of Justin McCarthy

The reciasl based on series of solos, duos and trios will feature a set of intensely spiritual Dikshitar kritis interspersed with pieces of pure dance

62 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Anwar Jamal who will introduce the film

Film produced by PSBT

Received Special Mention at the 11^th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary 2010 for "An important film in which novel ways of breaking boundaries between documentary and fiction allow the filmmaker to raise reality to the level of poetry and drama"

The Northern Reach of Buddhism in Asia

Buddhist Communities in Asiatic Russia Past and Present

An exhibition of photographs and documents concerning the

fate of  Buddhism in  Russian Mongolia under the Russian

Empire, the Soviet state and in the Russian Federation

Introduction: Dr. Hari Vasudevan, Director, MAKAIAS, Kolkata

Rev. Doboom Tulku, Director, Tibet House, Representative of the 

Institute of Mongolian Buddhist and Tibetan Studies