Decoding and Delivering Public Health
 

Speaker: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). He is the
past President PHFI and formerly Head, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development
 
 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Screening of a film, followed by recitation
 

Film - Rumi in the Land of Khusrau
(26 min; 2001; English)
A film by Muzaffar Ali who will introduce the film
Produced by Ministry of External Affairs

Followed by
Recitations of Rumi in Farsi and English
By Muzaffar Ali who will recite the original poems and his own English translations

Interpreted in Dance

By Shivani Varma

Kathak Recital
By Minu Garu from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Krishan Mohan Maharaj

AT 19:00
Kuchipudi Recital
By Meenakshi Aishwarya from Coimbatore, disciple of Guru Smt Sreelakshmy Govardhan

COMPLETE SCHEDULE

Sita ke Badalte Roop (The Changing forms of Sita/India)
(80 min; 2022; Hindi with English subtitles)
Directed by Pushpa Rawat who will introduce the film

Pushpa Rawat plays Sita in the local Ramlila, opening up public spaces for women in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

This film is a part of the exhibition “Create, Collaborate, Catalyse: Reflections on Sexual Violence in South India” on view at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex

Before you Were My Mother (Nepal/India)

(73 min; 2022; Nepali/Meitei/Newari with English subtitles)
Director: Prasuna Dongol

Prasuna tries to come to terms with the differences she has with her mother and seeks a way to define her own life

AT 14:00
Gay India Matrimony (India)
(67 min; 2019; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Debalina 

Gay India Matrimony is a film that revolves around three characters exploring their marriage prospects, with one of them documenting their travails.

AT 15:15
Iqraar-naama (The Agreement/India)
(55 min; 2021; Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu)
Director: Priyanka Chhabra

A story of love and loss – an archive of “Home” in a partitioned subcontinent

AT 16:15
This Stained Dawn (Pakistan)
(89 min; 2021; Urdu with English subtitles)
Director: Anam Abbas

Karachi’s young feminists organize a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious right.

AT 17:50
Gaine (Nepal)
(25 min; 2019; Nepali with English subtitles)
Director: Pradeep Dhakal

Recipient of the Award for Best Student Film, Film Southasia, Kathmandu 2022

…a journey into the lives of musician of a dying folk form that has been critical to a culture but has also been a vehicle for the dissemination of news in an era before the digital age - From the Jury Statement

AT 18:30
Taanga (Longing/India)
(90 min; 2021; English/Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu)
Director: Bani Singh

Recipient of the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film, Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2022

This poignant film pans out from an individual’s life, making powerful connections to a larger historical narrative, a process in which a history of loss, home, fraught relationships and identity at large continue to cast a dark shadow on the present realities of the subcontinent - From the Jury Statement

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The Heartbroken Lover (India)
(10 min; 2021; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Ridhima Sharma

Tea and sympathy for heartbroken lovers at the innovative neighbourhood chaiwallah

AT 18:15
Highways of Life (India)
(52 min; 2020; Meitei with English subtitles)
Director: Amar Maibam

Highways of Life is a detailed look at the high octane lives of Manipur’s highway truckers

AT 19:10
Ghar Ka Pata (Home Address/India)
(67 min; 2020; English/Hindi/Kashmiri)
Director: Madhulika Jalali

Of longing, transience and memory – the story of a young Kashmiri Pandit woman finding her way home…
 

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Strike with the Beat (Myanmar)
(25 min; 2021; Burmese with English subtitles)
Director: Sai Kyaw Khiang 

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power and detained State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint and elected government members. After the coup, young Burmese calling themselves the Drum Revolution group came out on the streets and protested against the military junta. The junta brutally cracked down on peaceful protesters.

AT 18:30
Amid the Villus (Sri Lanka)
(46 min; 2021; Tamil with English subtitles)
Director: Sumathy Sivamohan 

When the civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, the displaced people of Palaikuli in Musali South (northern Sri Lanka) returned to their homeland. Their homecoming was beset by a number of problems and challenges, including stone posts being driven into their land. 

AT 19:20
Moon on the Man (India)
(75 min; 2021; English/Hindi with subtitles)
Director: Prince Shah

Moon on the Man is an observational and exploratory feature length documentary that questions the most basic assumptions of reality, perception and choices.
 

A festival of 14 exceptional nonfiction films from South Asia produced in the last two years. The festival encapsulates the flavors of the Subcontinent with films about people from India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The festival includes the award winners of Film Southasia Festival 2022, Kathmandu as well as other films selected to showcase the variety, treatment and intensity that marks the world of Southasian documentary and non-fiction. Organised with Film Southasia, Kathmandu. The festival also includes an exhibition by Hri Institute for Southasian Research and Exchange, Southasian Trust, Kathmandu

COMPLETE SCHEDULE

At 18:00
Introduction
By Kanak Mani Dixit

The Secret Life (Pakistan)
(13 min; 2020; Urdu with English subtitles)
Director: Nadeem

A glimpse into the lives of indigenous people in the Hunza valley of Pakistan

AT 18:35
Gurkha Girl (Nepal)
(35 min; 2021; Nepali with English subtitles)
Director: Bishal Rokka Magar

Co-Recipient of the Tareque Masud Award for Best Debut Film, Film Southasia Kathmandu 2022

As news surfaces that Britain is recruiting Nepali girls in its British Gurkha regiments, Dilmaya, a young girl from a mountain village, sees it as a life changing opportunity and devotes all her time in preparation.

AT 19:15
The Casteless Collective – Prologue (India)
(90 min; 2021; Tamil/English)
Director: Monesh

Music breaks barriers of caste and class in performances by a revolutionary band. The documentary chronicles the story of India’s most revolutionary political musical outfit The Casteless Collective (bold) from its inception through the release of its debut album “Magizhchi” (Joy) in 2019.
 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

The Last Dalai Lama? (USA)
(82 min; 2016; English)
Director: Mickey Lemle

Recipient of the Audience Award, Mill Valley Film Festival 2016

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Rajiv Mehrotra
 
His Holiness turns 88 in July. The film reflects on the 14th Dalai Lama, his ongoing confrontation between Tibetans and China; His Holiness’s influence in political and spiritual spheres; his work with educators and neuropsychologists; and his personal feelings on ageing, dying and the question: Will there be a fifteenth Dalai Lama, or will he be the last Dalai Lama?

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

Concert by Ishaan Leonard Rao, young pianist and composer, a prodigious talent in the world of music

The only Indian recipient of the Sony Music Group Global Scholar, Ishaan is currently studying piano under Georgian pianist, Girogi Mikdze at Berklee College of Music, Boston where received the prestigious certificate for ‘outstanding achievement’ by the piano department
 
 

From 75 Years of Marg, co-edited by Anita Cherian and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

Speakers: Anita Cherian, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Navtej Singh Johar, artist and Founder, Studio Abhyas

Chair: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

From its earliest issues, Marg has devoted considerable space to writings on dance. It has played a significant role in the classicization and canonization of forms that are known today as the eight classical dances of India. In a country like India, replete with its complex mesh of histories, living traditions, languages, and regional calendars, these writings have created awareness about traditions and transitions while keeping the aesthetics of presentation as a priority

(Collaboration: Marg Publications)