FOOD FESTIVAL: CELEBRATING THE WOMEN CHEF
Begum-e-Dilli: The Flavours of Old Delhi
Curated by: Gunjan Goela
Venue: Rose Garden
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FOOD FESTIVAL: CELEBRATING THE WOMEN CHEFS
Sunday Brunch: Flavours of Gujarat
Curated by: The members of SEWA, Gujarat
Venue: Rose Garden
(Collaboration: SEWA, Gujarat)
FOOD FESTIVAL: CELEBRATING THE WOMEN CHEFS
Ruposhi Banglaj: A Bengali Culinary Tapestry
Curated by: Samita Haldar
Venue: Rose Garden
FOOD FESTIVAL: CELEBRATING WOMEN CHEFS
Spice Route: Coastal Food from Andhra
Curated by: Rekha Rigo
Venue: Rose Garden
FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE
11:00 AM Rear Window (UK)
(111 min; 1954; English)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards. Ranked among AFI’s 100 Greatest American Films.
2:00 PM Tár (US)
(2022; 158 min; 2022; English)
Director: Todd Field
Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress (Cate Blanchett). Won Golden Globe for Best Actress.
8:30 PM An Officer and a Gentleman (US)
(124 min; 1982; English))
Director: Taylor Hackford
Recipient of 2 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor (Louis Gossett Jr.) and Best Original Song (‘Up Where We Belong’).
FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE
10:00 AM Arth (India)
(138 mins; Hindi; 1982)
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
1:00 PM All About Eve (US)
(1950; 138 min; English)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Recipient of 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
4:00 PM Erin Brockovich (US)
(2000; 130 min; English)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Recipient of Academy Award for Best Actress (Julia Roberts)
8:30 PM Rudali
(128 mins;1993; Hindi)
Director: Kalpana Lajmi
FILM FESTIVAL: WOMEN AT THE CENTRE
12:30 PM Mary Poppins (US)
(1964; 139 min; English)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Recipient of 5 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Julie Andrews).
3:00 PM The Nun’s Story (US)
(1959; 152 min; English)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Audrey Hepburn).
8:30 PM Meghe Dhaka Tara
Director: Ritwik Ghatak
A tribute on his 100th birth anniversary
THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – 10TH TO 14TH OCTOBER 2025
Working for an Equal World
Panel Discussion by leading women from Northeast
Panelists: Ms Patricia Mukhim, social activist, writer, journalist and Editor of The Shillong Times; Prof Rakhee Kalita Moral, Professor and Head Department of English and Chair, Centre for Women’s Studies Cotton University; Dr Stuti Goswami, Associate Professor, Department of English, The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati; and Dr Purnima Burman, Indian wildlife biologist
Moderator: Sanjoy Hazarika, writer, journalist and human rights activist
Chair: Rami Chhabra, veteran Media person, author and social activist
THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – 10TH TO 14TH OCTOBER 2025
Panel Discussion
Role of Women in Politics in India- Then and Now
Panel Discussion with Aparajita Sarangi; Bansuri Swaraj, Atishi Marlena, Sudha Ramakrishnan, and Iqra Hasan
Chair: Sonia Singh, former Editorial Director, Anchor, NDTV Group
THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – 10TH TO 14TH OCTOBER 2025
Women, Work, Resilience and Peace
SEWA’s role in Empowerment of Women in India’s informal economy
Keynote Speaker: Reema Nanavaty, Director SEWA
Chair: Dr Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK; Former Director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Video Screening of “Swacch Aakash” followed by summary Remarks
