07 December 2012, 05:30 am
Premiere screening
Highway to the Asian Century
(52 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Directed by Suhas Borker who will introduce the film
Chief Guest: Shri Ranjan Mathai, Foreign Secretary
Guest of Honour: Lise Grande
Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC - Asia Project
Closing remarks: Shri K.P. Fabian, Chair, K.P.S. Menon School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
The film makes a 7600-km-long journey on the road from New Delhi to Hanoi, through Bangladesh, India's North East, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam, focusing on the intensification of India's relations with the ASEAN and the vision of an "Asian Economic Community"