Nine Years of Modi Government – Foreign Policy Overview

IIC Townhall with Hon’ble Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs, Govt. of India

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

In search of words and meanings
(80 min; 2023; Kannada/German/English & with subtitles)
Writer, Editor & Director: Prashant Pandit who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Prashant Pandit

Film on the life and work of Ferdinand Kittel (1853-1904) from Germany, who came to India as a missionary in southern India. Mastering the over 2000-year-old Kannada language, he became a renowned philologist, lexicographer and author. Facing the wrath of his superiors, this “failed missionary” went on to transcend the boundaries of religion, language and geography to herald a new beginning

Santoor Recital

By Ninad Daithankar from Pune, son and disciple of Dr. Dhananjay Daithankar

AT 19:00
Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Rupak Midya from Delhi, disciple of Smt Gopa Biswas and Pt. Aniruddha Bhattacharya

Presented by Wings Cultural Society

A collection of unique dastans (stories) narrated by artists as solo performances. Bey is a short story written by Shaukat Thanvi about a protagonist who is informed by an astrologer to beware of the letter ‘B’. Marhoom ki Yaad Mein is the best known essay from Patras Bokhari’s only masterpiece “Patras ke Mazameen”. It is the story of a cycle that Patras purchases from his friend Mirza

Dramatised narration in Urdu and Hindustani by Rajguru Mohan (Bey); and Tarique Hameed (Marhoom ki Yaad Mein)
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Dr. Neeta Mathur from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Gokulotsavji Maharaj

AT 19:00
Odissi Recital

By Gaurie Dwivedi from Delhi, disciple of Guru Sujata Mohapatra and Guru Ipsita Behoora 
 

(97 min; 2021; Spanish with English subtitles)

Director: Horacio Alcalá

In a small town outside of Oaxaca lives a group of Muxes, third gender and non-binary people, who make a living sewing and looking after their elders. Parallel to this, fashion designers in Spain plot a plan to appropriate the traditional dresses that the Muxes create. The film follows the highs and the lows of the Muxes, indulging in their intoxicating 'velas' and grieving their lost loves, all in the beautiful setting of rural Mexico. As tragedy strikes, the importance of kinship and chosen family is reverberated across the town.

India International Centre is in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico.
 

Regimes of Hatred, Regimes of Conviviality
 

Speaker: Prof. Ashis Nandy, public intellectual, political psychologist and social theorist
Introduction by Programme Director, South African High Commission,  Cedrick C. Crowley, Deputy High Commissioner of South Africa
Opening remarks: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
Closing remarks: H.E. Mr. Joel Sibusiso Ndebele, High Commissioner of South Africa
The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was instituted at IIC in 2018 to mark the Centenary of Madiba

(Collaboration: South African High Commission; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

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