Glimpses of Ladakh
Works by Vaibhav Mehta; Madhu Reddy; Kiran Rao; Madhukar B. Raju; Neeta Shanker; Jagaadish R.; Aditya Mukherjee; Faizal Khan; Ritwik Sauntra; Vishal Kapse and Catherine Kirchman
Returning Lines
Works in metal, terracotta and mixed media; and drawings
By Tridib Bera from Santiniketan
Inauguration by Ms Latha Priyakumar, Member, National Commission for Schedule Caste; and Ms Sajeetha
Bharathi, Principal, The Titan School, Hosur on 30 November at 18:30
Ecological Reading
Quotes from the Earth: The Environment Film Festival 2010: For Ecological Citizenship
The festival focuses on different issues, regions, and struggles to give audiences a better chance to understand and engage with environmental issues. Initiating, propagating and
absorbing the idea of 'Eco-Citizens', the films will throw light essentially through four categories: Earth, Water, Wildlife and Sustainability. Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link.At 9:00 Ecological Reading
Readings from the book, The Secret Abode of Fireflies - Loving and Losing of Nature in the City which aims to inculcate this idea of loving the presence of natural spaces, that one is about to lose rapidly.
From 10:00 onwards
THEME: EARTH
The Last Days of Shishmaref (Netherlands; 91 min; English subtitles)
Director: Jan Louter
The Earth Story (90 Secs; Animation; English)
Directors: Megha Mathur and Suchi Tripathi
India's Climate Fever (India; 15 min; English subtitles)
Director: Arjun Pandey
You Can Only Clap with Two Hands (Introduction, Awareness & Capacity)
(Netherlands; 25 min; English)
Director: Jenny Van Houters
Once My Village (India; 3 min; Hindi; English subtitles)
Director: Pranab K. Aich
Last Words of a Dying Tree (India; 5 min; English subtitles)
Directors: Avinash Kumar Singh & Geeta Singh
Goa Goa Gone (25 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Kurush Canteenwala
Tears (India; 1.30 min; English subtitles)
Director: Rashmi Rajarao
Light of the Night (4 min; English subtitles)
Director: Metha Mathur
Diamonds and Rust (10.7 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Karuna D'Souza
From 14:30 onwards
THEME: WATER
Deluge (7.36 min; English subtitles; 2D Animation)
Director: Delwyn Jude Remedios
Ganpati Bappa Moraya! (8.33 min; Marathi with subtitles)
Director: Dr. Mayuri Panse
The Miracle Water Village (12 min; Marathi/English with English subtitles)
Directors: Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
The Land of Vanishing Lakes (India; 20.59 min; English subtitles)
Director: Ishani K. Dutta
Reviving Faith, PSBT (57 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Rishu Nigam
At 17.00
Discussion on Is Environment Education Still Confined to Moral Relativism?
From 18:30
Bridging the Gap (Netherlands; 95 min; English subtitles)
Director: Corinne Van Egeraat & Katja Draaijer
4 Elements (Netherlands; 95 min; English subtitles)
Director: Jiska Rickels
Films on Spirituality
The Making of the Mahatma
Director: Shyam Benegal
Spiritual Ecology
Dalliance of Spirituality and Ecology: A Hindu Perspective
Introduction: Lama Doboom Tulku
Chair: Rabbi Ezekiel Isaac Malekar
Hazrat Amir Khusrau and the Tradition of Khanqahi Qawwali
Music Appreciation Promotion
Hazrat Amir Khusrau and the Tradition of Khanqahi Qawwali
An illustrated presentation by Irfan Zuberi, a cultural consultant with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Through recordings of Hazrat Amir Khusrau's compositions, this talk will introduce the genre of khanqahi qawwali in the Indian subcontinent as a prominent expression of Chishti Sufism
Caravaggio 400: Study on Restoration of Caravaggio's Paintings by Cesare Brandi
The talk will deal with the restoration of paintings such as The Last Supper and
The Basilica at Asissi
Chair: Smt Rupika Chawla, Painting Conservator