Through a Different Lens: Should India adopt a more civilisation view of the World (49 min)
Speaker: Dr. Shiv Visvanathan, social scientist, currently Professor at O P Jindal Global University

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

The talk is an attempt to ask a question for contemporary times. The idea of civilisation has been used more to grasp the sacred, the sense of heritage and the idea of tradition. Words like Nationalism, Development and Globalism seem more appropriate for contemporary narratives on statecraft or policy. We dramatize ourselves within the frame-work of the nation-state with its accompanying ideas of citizenship, boundary, security and contract. This lecture suggests that may be a civilisation view of India is more relevant than a nationalist perspective. It considers a few thought experiments like the idea of South Asia, Climate Change and the notion of Sustainability to develop its argument

Webcast recording of the programme held on 14th January 2017

Speaker: Prof. John Ellis, King’s College London and CERN Theory Division, Geneva

Paul Gauguin's famous painting Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? deals with some of the most fundamental questions of the Universe. Eminent CERN theoretician Professor John Ellis explains how the Large Hadron Collider might address Gauguin's questions as seen by particle physics and cosmology.

In particle physics Gauguin's questions can be interpreted as: What is the status of particle physics, what may lie just beyond our current understanding of it, and just what is the `Theory of Everything'? In cosmology: What were the earliest stages of the Universe like, what is it made of today, and what is its future? Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva are hoping to provide some of the answers in the near future

Collaboration: University of Edinburgh

Webcast recording of the programme held on 15 February 2013

Speaker: Prof. Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Professor, Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
 
Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
 
Programme held on 9^th July 2019

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Hindustani Music – Sarod Recital
By Pt. Abhik Kumar Sarkar from Delhi, disciple of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Accompanied on the tabla by Shubhendu Das

Followed by
Saabhinaya
An evening of Odissi Recital
By Vrinda Chadha from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt. Ranjana Gauhar

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
 

WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

Organised in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies of India, NR, the festival presents a screening of documentary films and feature films made by leading women filmmakers at the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium on 8th and 9th March 2021 at 18:00 each evening.

Begamon Ka Bhopal (Bhopal, a city of Begums) | (27 min; 2017; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Rachita Gorowala
Produced by Films Division India

The film is a poignant tribute to an age when women ruled the state and of a forgotten era. Even as its regal past recedes, Bhopal clings on to fragments of history that once made it unique. For over a hundred years from 1819, Bhopal was ruled by four Nawab begums, each of whom made distinct contributions to the city and to the country. The past is explored through four principal characters: two royal descendants, Firoza Khan and Meeno Ali; the diary of a writer, Manzoor Ahtesham; a former royal attendant; and old film reels belonging to the grandfather of Gorowala’s family friend. 

Registration link: http://iawrtindia.org/register/
Website link: http://iawrtindia.org/festival-2021

Followed by

Run Kalyani (100 min; 2019; dvd; Malayalam with English subtitles)
Written & Directed by Geetha J.

Multiple award winner including awards for Best Actress-Feature Film & Best Director-Feature Film, Yellowstone International Film Festival 2021; Special Jury Award, Kolkata International Film Festival 2019; Best Feature Film, South Asian Film Festival, Montreal 2020; among many others

A gently beguiling debut feature film from Geetha J. Kalyani is a young cook who lives with her ailing aunt and a young man in a rundown agraharam, a traditional Brahmin row house, in Trivandrum. Each day is the same as she carries on her life of duty as a cook and carer. But each day is not the same too. As the romance of poetry ignites a passion, as the stories of other worlds stirs a desire, as sharks close in and death draws near, Run Kalyani build into an intense crescendo of grief and grit, sorrow and strength
 

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-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venue, at least 30 minutes prior to the screenings in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
 

WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

Organised in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies of India, NR, the festival presents a screening of documentary films and feature films made by leading women filmmakers at the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium on 8th and 9th March 2021 at 18:00 each evening.

IMAGINARY HOMES | (2020/18 min; Punjabi, Mundari with English subtitles)
Director: Priya Naresh

An old woman with an incoherent past and a young maid build an imaginary home together. Gurman is an old Punjabi social worker who has lost everything during the Partition of India and then spent her adult life rehabilitating young abducted women in Pakistan. At this point in life, she has lost all sense of the world but the trauma of the past, and the violence against the women that she has witnessed is deeply imbedded in her psyche. Her caretaker, Ela, a young Adivasi girl from the Munda tribe has been forced to repatriate to the city to earn a living, leaving her home and her forest behind. The two women, each yearning for the past, form a bond and try to build a home of their imagination

Followed by

In the Land of Poison Women (Bishkanyear Deshot) | (104 min; 2019; Pangchepa with English subtitles)
Director: Manju Borah

Recipient of the Best Feature Film in Pangchepa, National Film Awards 2019

The film is based on a story distinguished litterateur Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s much acclaimed work and is set in Zemithang region of Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh. Pangchepa is the language spoken by the local Monpa community living in this remote region near the India – China border. Sangra and Lusang’s two children and four others die after consuming a local wine prepared by Lusang. Believed to be a doumoh or poison woman, Lusang is ostracised by her superstitious community. Thupten, an intelligence officer and Tasi Yudan, a circle officer – both from the same community – visit the couple. As Lusang lies on her deathbed, Sangra, in the presence of everybody, reveals a long-hidden secret which vindicates her reputation as a doumoh and hearing this Lusang dies peacefully.

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-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
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