Depth Sounding Our Unseen Histories
 

Keynote Address 
By Smt Mrinal Pande, Eminent Writer, Journalist and Ex-Chairperson of Prasar Bharati
The lecture explores how women’s identities have been reduced to motherhood, and how social structures often bind individuals to biology.

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
 

2:00 PM Kshudhita Pashan (The Hungry Stones)

(109 mins;1960; Bengali with English Subtitles)

Director: Tapan Sinha

National Film Award for 2nd best feature film,1960.

8: 30 PM Pride and Prejudice (UK) 

(127 min; 2005; English)

Director: Joe Wright

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Actress (Keira Knightley). Won BAFTA for Best Costume Design.

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

Bhumika(India)

(142 mins; 1977; Hindi)

Director: Shyam Benegal

(Remembering Smita Patil on her 70th Birthday)

Annual Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance) 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Nepal 2043: The Road to Prosperity
 

By Sujeev Shakya (Penguin, 2025)
 

The Dirty Sky
(73 min;2025; English)
Director: O.P. Srivastava 
 

A powerful documentary exposing the growing crisis of orbital pollution. Through striking visuals and expert voices, it reveals the dangers of space debris, legal gaps, and militarization, while spotlighting global clean-up efforts. Urgent and thought-provoking, it calls for responsible stewardship of Earth’s fragile orbital commons.
O.P. Srivastava, award-winning filmmaker and author, uses cinema to spotlight urgent cultural and environmental issues.
 

Jatugriha (The Burnt Home) ) India
130 mins; 1964; Bengali with English subtitles
Directed by Tapan Sinha

Satadal (Uttam Kumar) is a civil engineer with a successful career and a loving wife Madhuri (Arundhati Devi). However, their relationship runs into rough weather from the emotional stress and strain of childlessness.

This is a part of the Exhibition ‘A Star named Arundhati’ in the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex from 11 October to 25 October, 2025
 

The Nature of Nature – Earth’s Metabolic Disorder

From 14:00 to 15:15
Exhibition 
Indian Women Farmers’ Knowledge – Living Diversity of Our Organic Farms
Welcome Address: Smt Maya Goburdhun 
Chief Guests: Dr Ajeet Caur, Co-Founder, Academy of Fine Arts & Literature and Ms Arpana Caur, famous Artist

At 16:00
Panel Discussion
Agroecology: Solutions for a Reset of Earth’s Metabolic Disorder 
Speakers: Dr Vandana Shiva, Author, Founder of Navdanya, Dr Andre Leu, Former President of International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements – Organics International, Dr Nadia El Hage, Former Head, Ecological Farming, FAO, Dr. A.V. Singh, Vice President of Régénération Canada

At 17:00
Panel Discussion
Food and Health: The Gut-Earth Connection
Speakers: Dr Arun Gupta, Pediatrician, BPNI, IBFAN, Dr Suresh Kumar, Pediatrician, CISSA, Dr Gangadharan, Ayurveda and Wellbeing, Dr Srinath Reddy, PHFI

(Collaboration: Navdanya)
 

Jagaran aur Gavahi: Tees Janvari
(40 min;1991; Hindi)
Director: Suhas Borker
Co-produced by Ramachandra Gandhi and Suhas Borker

A documentary on the significance of Gandhi’s martyrdom, linking it to both India’s partition and global struggles for justice. Using powerful archival footage and voices of leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Mandela, and the Dalai Lama, it highlights Gandhi’s enduring message of truth, non-violence, and peace

Followed by a discussion with Prof Ashis Nandy and Suhas Borker, moderated by Ashok Vajpeyi
 

(90 minutes;2022; English Subtitles)

Directors: Phil Grabsky & Shoaib Sharifi

Winners of Best Documentary at the BAFTA Television Awards, Best Documentary at the Tiburon Film Festival (Golden Reel); Best International Documentary at the DC Independent Film Festival 2022; and Best Feature Documentary at the Titan International Film Festival and Bali International Film Festival 2022

Spanning two decades in the life of one boy—growing up in a cave beside the Bamyan Buddhas—this film journeys through war, hope, and transformation in Afghanistan. My Childhood, My Country is an intimate, soul-stirring portrait of resilience that invites us to reflect on innocence, loss, and the enduring human spirit. A must-see.

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)