12:30 pm    FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS
The Cameraman (USA)
(69 min; 1928; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Directors: Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton 

2 pm    Duck Soup (USA)
(68 min; 1933; b/w; English)
Director: Leo McCarey

3:30 pm    Modern Times (USA)
(87 min; 1936; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Writer & Director: Charles Chaplin

8:30 pm    Ninotchka (USA)
(110 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
 

FILM FESTIVAL: A CARNIVAL OF COMEDY FILMS

Curator: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-wining filmmaker and Archivist, Director, Film Heritage Foundation

The General (USA)

(78 min; 1926; b/w; silent with English intercuts)
Director: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton

 FOOD FESTIVAL: CELEBRATING THE HOME CHEF

Under the Chinar Tree: A Kashmiri Wazwan feast 

Prepared by Saleeth Nisar, We The Chefs

Venue: Rose Garden
 

The Shaping of Modern Indian Science in the Decades 1927-1967: The Historical Influence of the Pre and Post-Independence Periods

Speaker: Dr. P. Balaram, former Director, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bengaluru

Chair: Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Life Trustee, IIC and Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru

Release of the IIC Quarterly: Autumn 2024

Edited by Omita Goyal, Chief Editor IIC

To be released by Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC

Pioneers of Modern Renaissance of India

Speaker: Prof. Pradeep Apte, Distinguished Professor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune

Chair: Prof. Salil Misra, Faculty of History, School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi

Bose & Bose: Making of the INA

Speaker: Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian and author, Chancellor of Ashoka University

Discussant: Dr. Sanjeev Chopra, former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Chair: Amb. T.C. A. Raghavan, author and former Director General, Indian Council of World Affairs

Nationalism and Popular Cinema: Emotive Commitments, Transformations, Critiques and Alternative Imaginings

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Ira Bhaskar, film scholar and former Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Shri Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, writer and journalist

Poetry – Singing a Nation 

Readings from selected poems composed during the nationalist movement by leading Indian poets – Rabindranath Tagore; Kazi Nazrul Islam; C. Subramania Bharati; Vallathol Narayana Menon; Sarojini Naidu; Jaishankar Prasad; Iqbal; Maithilisharan Gupta; Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and others

Conceptualised by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Readings in the original languages by Sujatha Ramanan (Tamil); Ruma Ghosh (Bengali); Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan (Malayalam); Sunit Tandon (English); Priyanka Sharma, Anushakti & Mrityunjay Tripathi (Hindi); and Pradeep Tarkash (Urdu)

Moderator: Apoorvanand

 Tanashah

A solo dance drama based on the prison diaries of Bhagat Singh
Concept, choreography and performance: Navtej Singh Johar

Live Sound Design: Anirban Ghosh
Vocals: Madan Gopal Singh and Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy
Lighting Design: Anuj Chopra