Purani Dilli Festival
Dastaan-e-Purani Dilli (105 min)
Conceptualised and directed by Kulsoom Noor Saifullah and Begum Zakia Zaheer
With Syeda Hameed, Ghazala Amin, Shovana Narayan, Farhan Mujib, Rene Singh and Murad Ali
Principal narrator: Begum Zakia Zaheer
Panorama of Bengal's Art Heritage
Melodies from Bengali Films of Yesteryears
By Sudip Basu from Kolkata
Rasik Kabi Rabindranath - Shruti Natak
By Jayanta Das from
Biswa Bina Robe
Based on Tagore's Bharat Tirtha
Dance choreography in Bharatanatyam
By Anita Mallick and her disciples from Kolkata
Panorama of Bengal's Art Heritage: 23rd and 24th April 2011
Rabindra Sangeet
By Jayati Chakraborty from Kolkata
Pancha Kanyar Kahini - Shruti Natak
Based on significant emotions in the life of
Presented by Bisaka Mukherjee from Kolkata
Prabhu Amar Priya Amar
Dance drama based on Tagore's Saap Mochan
Presented in Kathak and Manipuri styles
Choreographed by Ashimbandhu Bhattacharya (Kathak); and Guru Bimbavati Devi (Manipuri) and presented by their disciples, Kolkata
Preserve the Future - Conserving India's Wild Heritage: UK Environment Film Fellowship 2006
Preserve the Future - Conserving India 's Wild Heritage: UK Environment Film Fellowship 2006
The Last Dance (10 min; dvd; 2006; English)
Director: Ashima Narain
Film on the rescue of a dancing sloth bear
The Hunted (15 min; dvd; 2007; English)
Director: Jay Mazoomdar
The most effective way of curbing tiger trade is offering the hunters a new way of life
Turtles in a Soup (10 min; dvd; 2008; English)
Director: Kalpana Subramanian
The untold story of a silent crime - the illegal trade of freshwater turtles
The Silenced Witness (10 min; dvd; 2008; English)
Directors: P. Balan & Radha R.
60 per cent of the world's Asian elephants live in
Diminishing Resources (15 min; dvd; 2007; English)
Directors; Himanshu Malhotra & Sabina Kidwai
The film tries to sensitise audiences to the threats faced by Coral reefs
Once there was a Purple Butterfly (10 min; dvd; 2008; English)
Director: Sonya V. Kapoor
As the small species quietly becomes extinct, the film focuses on the crimes against butterflies
Leopards in the Lurch (15 min; dvd; 2008; English)
Director: Gurmeet Sapal
The film captures the cat's threatening as well as threatened existence in Uttarakhand
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
Cosmic Implications of Paranormal Research and Interests in the
Illustrated presentation by Commander Scott Jones (US Navy Retd.), Director, Peace and Emergency Coalition for Earth and former Director, Laurance Rockerfeller Initiative
Chair: Dr. Come Carpentier de Gourdon
WORLD HERITAGE DAY 2011
World Heritage Day 2011
Exhibition, film screening, play and music
Exhibition - Poets within Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti: Mirza Ghalib, Amir Khusrau and Amir Hasan Sijzi
On view in the Foyer outside the Auditorium
From 14:30 - 17:00
Film - Mirza Ghalib (1954; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Sohrab Modi
From 17:00 - 18:15
Play - Life and Works of Mirza Ghalib
Presented by Sair-e-Nizamuddin
At 18:30
Ghazals
Presented by Begum Muneer Khatoon who will present ghazals by Mirza Ghalib