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1st March Time - 07:00 pm |
HOLI | ||
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2nd
March Time - 07:00 pm |
DANCE - Peace On Earth Bharatanatyam ballet interspersed with music and dance of diverse cultures that reflect the saints from various regions and periods. It is an experiment in fusion that holds the authentic flavour of each piece, weaving it together and synthesizing the different strands. Wri & Dir.Vasanth Kannabiran. Choreographed and performed by Guru Rajeswari Sainath & troupe. An Asmita Production. Collab: Sangat |
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3rd
March Time - 6:30 pm |
DOC FILM - Public Service Broadcasting Trust continues with its monthly series Buru Garra Dir. Shriprakash & A Fight to Dance Dir. Anish Patel |
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3rd
March Time - 07:00 pm |
FILM CLUB SCREENING - Women On Women – In celebration of International Woman’s Day - Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks (Sisters or The Balance of Happiness) (German/1979/95mins) Dir. Margarethe von Trotta. Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul? Collab: Goethe_institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan |
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4th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
DOC FILM - Ten Women, Ten Lives, Ten Concerns (DVD/Eng/2006/47mins) Dir. Vishnu Mathur. Prod. C. S. Lakshmi, SPARROW. A film covering the themes of ten films made on women’s scholarship and action for the Global Feminism's project. Collab: University of Michigan |
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5th
March Time - 06:30 pm |
TALK - IHC-ISST Gender Policy Forum|Structured Inequalities: Factors Associated With Spatial Disparities In Maternity Care In India Speaker: Sonalde Desai, Senior Fellow, NCAER and Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, USA. Discussant: Dr. Rashmi Pachauri Rajan, Deputy Director - Sure Start Project, PATH |
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5th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
MUSIC - Dakshinayan, a festival dedicated to Carnatic Music & Dance. Saxophone recital by Dr. Kadri Gopalnath & Carnatic Vocal recital by T. V. Sankaranarayanan. Collab: Banyan Tree | ||
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5th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
BOOK LAUNCH - May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss by blogger Arnab Ray of greatbong.net. Collab: Harper Collins | ||
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6th
March Time - 09:30 am 11:30 am |
HABITAT CHILDREN'S BOOK FORUM features The Day It Rained Letters by Nury Vittachi. Pub. Hachette India. Storytelling and activities conducted by Neel Debdutt Paul, Editorial Assistant, Hachette India. Age group 6-8 |
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6th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
PANEL DISCUSSION - India’s Soft Power And The Role Of The Classical Arts Panelists: Dr. B. N. Goswami, Lalit Mansingh, Sircar, Priya Chabria, Vinita Bali & Malavika Sarukkai |
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6th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
MUSIC - Semi-classical Vocal recital by Dhanashree Pandit Rai, disciple of Pt. Firoz Dastur & Vidushi Shobha Gurtu HCL Concert Series |
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6th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
TALK - Kavayitri Sammelan organized by Rajasthani Akademi |
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7th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
MUSIC - An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet by Suranjan Roy, son & disciple of Subinoy Roy Collab: Impresario India |
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8th March Time - 07:00 pm |
FILM CLUB SCREENING - Women On Women – In celebration of International Woman’s Day - Rudali Dir. Kalpana Lazmi. (Hindi/1993/128mins) A Rudali is a female professional mourner at a funeral ceremony. After her husband's death, Sanichari has lost hope in life. The seasoned Rudali Bikni instills new hope in Sanichari's life... Courtesy: National Film Development Corporation | ||
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8th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
MUSIC - Swar Dhra A Voice With A Musical Evening In Aid Of "Female Infoetecide" Awareness. Ghazal recital by Shweta Razdan, disciple of Dr. Roshan Bharti. Classical Vocal recital by Barna Maitra, disciple of Satyakinkar Bandopadhya Courtesy: Suman Art Cultural And Social Organisation | ||
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9th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
FILM CLUB SCREENING - Women On Women – In celebration of International Woman’s Day - Brodeuses (A Common Thread) (French/2004/90mins) Dir. Éléonore Faucher. When Claire learns that she is five months pregnant at the tender age of 17, she decides to give birth anonymously. She finds refuge with Madame Melikian, an embroiderer for haute couture designers. And, day by day, stitch by stitch, as Claire's belly grows rounder, the threads of embroidery create a filial bond between them. Collab: Embassy of France |
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9th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
BOOK LAUNCH - Telangana by C. H. H. Hanumantha Rao. Collab: Academic Foundation |
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10th
March Time - 07:00 pm |
FILM CLUB SCREENING - On the occasion of the National Day of Bulgaria. After The End Of The World (Bulgaria/1998/104 mins) Dir. Ivan Nichev. The film is a sentimental journey into the past and present of Bulgaria. After more than forty years of absence, a well-known Bulgaria-born Israeli professor, Albert Cohen-Berto, returns to Bulgaria for a scientific conference that is being held in his native city, Plovdiv, in the early 1990s. There he meets the love of his life, Araxi, and together they revisit their childhood. Collab: Embassy of Bulgaria |
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11th
March Time -06:30 pm |
TALK - Student First! Dialogue Series - Panel discussion on Implementing 25% In The RTE Act: Developing A Model by School Choice Campaign Collab: Centre for Civil Society |
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11th
March Time -07:00 pm |
MUSIC - Sarod recital by Debanjan Bhattacharjee, disciple of Lt. Ustad Dhyanesh Khan, Ustad Aashish Khan & Ameena Perera of Maihar Senia Gharana HCL Concert Series |
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11th
March Time - 07:00 pm
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DOC FILM - A Tale of Two Writers - Ismat and Annie (English/2009/30mins) Dir. Juhi Sinha. A documentary on the life and works of Ismat Chugtai and Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider, who bold and ahead of their times, broke with traditions and wrote about their world, holding a mirror to the society they lived in. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Collab: PD Division, MEA |
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12th
March Time -07:00 pm |
FILM CLUB SCREENING - Women On Women – In celebration of International Woman’s Day – Lola (Spanish/1990/92mins) Dir. Maria Novaro. Lola, a young mother is abandoned by the rock singer who fathers her daughter. Lonely and trapped in a life she does not choose, Lola vacillates back and forth between guilty responsibility and careless denial. Collab: Embassy of Mexico | ||
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12th
March Time -07:00 pm |
TALK - Book Club meets to read from Summertime by J. M. Coetzee | ||
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13th
March Time -06:30 pm & 08:30 pm |
THEATRE - Broken Images (English/60mins) Dir. Alyque Padamsee. Wri. Girish Karnad. Cast. Shabana Azmi. A psychological thriller that rips the mask off a celebrity. Manjula Sharma is not a very successful Hindi short-story writer. She suddenly becomes wealthy and internationally famous by writing a best-seller in English. In opting for the global audience, Manjula is haunted by the question whether she has not betrayed her own language and identity? Without warning, her own "image" decides to play confessor, psychologist and inquisitor. Tickets at Rs.350, Rs.250 & Rs.100 available at the Programme desk from Mar. 5 for IHC members only. Open to all from Mar. 8. An Old World Culture Presentation | ||
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14th
March Time -08:00 am |
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14th
March Time -07:00 pm |
MUSIC - An Evening of Banglar Gaan - Rabindra Sangeet by Saswati Sengupta followed by Ragasroee Bangla Gaan by Suranjana Bose. Collab: Impresario India |
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14th
March Time -07:00 pm |
BOOK LAUNCH - Forgotten DILLI - Portrait Of An Immortal City by Sasmita S. Akhtar & Shamim Akhtar. Pub: NISHCAM |
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14th
March Time -07:00 pm |
THEATRE - Neil Simon’s Chapter Two (English/120mins) Dir. Vishal Verma. George Schneider and Jennie Malone, discover each other at the threshold of a new chapter in their respective lives. A case of mistaken identities brings the recently widowed George and the recently divorced Jennie together in a whirlwind romance. A hasty wedding and a disastrous honeymoon opens up several doors to the past that both are too scared to enter. The play explores how an individual’s past traps him in his memories and makes it impossible to move on. Tickets at Rs.300, Rs.200, Rs.100 & Rs.50 available at the Programme desk from Mar. 5 for IHC members only. Open to all from Mar. 8. An Old World Culture Presentation | ||
15th March |
Women On Women – In celebration of International Woman’s Day – FILM CLUB DISCUSSION Group meets to discuss Samt el qusur (Silences of the Palace) (Arabic/French/1994/125mins) Dir. Moufida Tlatli. The film is a powerful testimony to a woman’s mother. As Alia, the daughter of a beautiful servant Khedija, grows up in the Kings Palace at the end of the French colonial rule in Tunisia, she realizes the “favours” required of her mother and other servants. The film remembers the body, the work and the histories of women through Alia, daughter of Khedija. Research Scholar at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, Vebhuti will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion. | ||
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