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"