Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow
(52 min; 1992; dvd; English)
Director: Manjira Datta

The Green Revolution has been credited with ensuring that developing nations no longer suffer from hunger, but 25 years on this documentary asks who the principal beneficiary has been? The poor peasant? The big farmer? The multinational corporation? It shows how in India the Revolution helped to create a new serf class, and that the crop yields of the early years fell away in the wake of pesticide poisoning and short-lived miracle wheat strains

Prof Jasodhara Bagchi, Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University, will release the book by social worker Ashoka Gupta, and deliver an address 

Followed by remarks by Prof Ilina Sen, Dept. of Women's Studies, TISS; and Ms Sarmishtha Dutt Gupta, co-editor of the volume

The Arts and Public Institutions
Panelists: Shri Suresh Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha; Shri O.P. Jain, Founder President, Sanskriti Foundation; Dr Kalyan K. Chakravarty, former Member Secretary, IGNCA; and Dr Jyotindra Jain, former Director, Crafts Museum

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Executive Trustee, Raza Foundation

(90 min; 2011; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Director: Mujibar Rahaman

Following a linear narrative, the film traces the poet's growth both as an artist and as a thinker, using the poet's own voice, manuscripts, rare photographs and archival footage

Illustrated lecture by Dr. S.K. Mittra, Director Archaeology (Exploration & Excavation), ASI

Chair: Dr. K.K. Muhammed, Director (retd.), North Zone, ASI

Panelists: Shri Nepram Bihari, translator of Cheitharol Kumbaba, the royal chronicle of Manipur; Dr Axel Harneit-Sievers, Director, India Office, Heinrich Böll Stiftung; Mr Peter Lauenstein, Principal, Taktse International School, Sikkim

Chair: Mr B.G. Verghese (tbc)

Northeast India is home to over 272 ethnic groups and communities, yet there are no collective endeavours in writing and publishing on its diverse histories, which also find little place in the syllabi of Indian schools and universities. The panel will discuss efforts that are underway to rectify this state of affairs

India and Russia: Unity in Diversity
An exhibition of photographs by Evgenia Lents, journalist

Photographs of two cities in India and Russia"”Amber and Suzdal, both about 230 km from the capitals of their countries and once the capitals of regional kingdoms

Opening on Tuesday, 20th November, at 18:30