Past Events

Illustrated Talk on “The Interregnum Period” Mysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan – by Mr. Vikram Sampath.The Panelists were Dr. Shadaksharaiah, HOD, History Department, Bangalore University,Mr. Raja Chandra, son-in law of Wodeyar family.

Sat, 13 Sep 20085:30 am

Film

Screening of classical Shakespeare film “The Merchant of Venice”

Fri, 29 Aug 20085:30 am

Talk by Dr. Griffin M Thompson on “Reliability and Affordability of Energy Services Required for a Developing Economy” Dr. J Gururaja Presided.

Tue, 5 Aug 20085:30 am

Theatre

Illustrated talk on “Myth, Spirit, Ritual : Bhuta Performance Rituals of Tulunadu” by Mr. Balan Nambiar, Mrs. Geetha Rao presided over the event.

Sat, 2 Aug 20085:30 am

Talk by Rajkumari Urmila Devi on “Reminiscences of Mysore Palace”. Mrs. Geetha Rao presided over the session

Sat, 5 Jul 20085:30 am

Talk by Dr. Annapurna Garimella on “Urbanisation and Toursim in Kerala”. Presided over by Prof. P K Michael Tharakan.

Sat, 28 Jun 20085:30 am

Film

Screening of film “The Advocate” directed by Ms. Deepa Dhanraj. Ms. Ammu Joseph presided over the interaction.

Fri, 20 Jun 20085:30 am

Education

Talk on “Marginalised Children in Primary Education – Current Challenges for Schools and Teachers” by Dr. M D Usha Devi, ISEC. Mrs. Vandita Sharma, IAS presided over the session.

Wed, 21 May 20085:30 am

Book Launch by Ms. Jasleen Dhamija “Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay” and Talk on “Indian Crafts and Globalisation”

Sat, 3 May 20085:30 am

Discussions on “Should HAL Airport be kept open?” by Dr. Vinod Vyasulu, Mr. V Ravichandar and Mr. V P Baligar. Presided over by Prof. S L Rao

Fri, 11 Apr 20085:30 am

Book Launch of Prof. Kishore Mahbubani’s Book “The New Asian Hemisphere : The irresistible shift of Global Power to the East” Mr. Nandan Nilekani presided over the session.

Tue, 8 Apr 20085:30 am

Talk by Mrs. Achala Moulik on “ Pushkin, the father of modern Russian Literature”

Fri, 4 Apr 20085:30 am

Talk by Mr. V Balu on “Land Encroachments in Bangalore Urban District”. Dr. Samuel Paul, presided over the session.

Thu, 27 Mar 20085:30 am

Dance

“Sabras” Dance programme by Smt. Sonal Mansingh at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall

Sat, 22 Mar 20085:30 am

Talk on “Urban Transport in India : Beyond the Nano and Metro… and back to the Basics” by Prof. Madhav Badami. Mr. V Ravichandar presided over the session.

Fri, 14 Mar 20085:30 am

Talk by Prof. Michael Tharakan of ISEC on “Rethinking Democratic-popular representation in Decision Making and Governance : A Discussion in the context of Decentralisation”. Mr. K Jairaj, Principal Secretary, RDPR, presided over the session.

Mon, 25 Feb 20085:30 am

Theatre

A Solo performance on “ And Dead Tree Gives No Shelter” by Mr. Parnab Mukherjee, a prominent Media Analyst from Kolkata

Mon, 11 Feb 20085:30 am

Talk on “To Get Green and grow – Arguments for a green market economy” by Mr. Reinhard Butikofer, President of Alliance 90/Green Party, Germany

Tue, 5 Feb 20085:30 am

Film

Screening of an Opera Film “ Madama Butterfly” in collaboration with International Music and Arts Society.

Fri, 18 Jan 20085:30 am

Talk by Mr. Jon Halliday and Mrs. Jung Chang on “What Mao did in Power, and his Longer-term Legacy, with some Thoughts on his Attitude towards India”.

Mon, 7 Jan 20085:30 am

Film

Screening of film “Pane Amaro” (Bitter Bread). The Director Mr. Gianfranco Norelli and Mrs. Suma Kurien were present

Wed, 2 Jan 20085:30 am

Film

Screening of film “Footsteps of Nikitin” directed by Mr. Rajan Jala. Mr. Phalguni Matilal, the leader of expedition was present and introduced the film.

Fri, 28 Dec 20075:30 am

Talk by Mr. K B Jinan on “Intiating collaboration between the Community and the Artisans”. Mr. S G Vasudev presided over

Sat, 8 Dec 20075:30 am

Talk by Dr. R K Pachauri on Climate change and Global Warming. (Second Anniversary Celebrations)

Wed, 21 Nov 20075:30 am

Music

Hindustani Classical Music by Shri Parameshwar Hegde. (Second Anniversary Celebrations)

Tue, 20 Nov 20075:30 am

Presentation on “Creative Journey – a personal way” by Mr. Amitabh Sengupta, A prominent Artist from Kolkata

Tue, 6 Nov 20075:30 am

Kannada Rajyothsava – Interactive Session on “Kannada Rajyothsava – A Few Thoughts” led by Dr. Vinod Vyasulu

Fri, 2 Nov 20075:30 am

Music

Nostalgic Musical Evening by Dr. Syed Sohail Hasan – Hindi Film Songs

Fri, 19 Oct 20075:30 am

Dance

Dance performance by Mrs. Prathibha Prahlad.

Tue, 16 Oct 20075:30 am

Presentation on “Generation of Meaning in Visual Arts- Various Approaches” by Mr. Ravi Kumar Kashi. Presided over by Mr. S G Vasudev

Sat, 13 Oct 20075:30 am

Talk by Mr. Arun Pai on “History and Heritage of Bangalore” Presided over by Mr. Kishore Rao

Mon, 8 Oct 20075:30 am

Education

Interactive Session by Mr. Champak Chatterjee, Secretary, GoI on “New Perspectives on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Thu, 4 Oct 20075:30 am

Interactive Session by Prof. James Mayall and Prof. Philip Towle on “World Order: Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century” . Contributory Dinner was arranged after the session.

Sun, 30 Sep 20075:30 am

Music

Lecture Demonstration on “The niceties and nuances of Karnatak Classical Music” by Dr. T S Sathyavathi, Prof. in Sanskrit. Mrs. Geetha Rao presided over the event

Sat, 22 Sep 20075:30 am

Talk by Mr. Darryl D’Monte, Journalist on “Mumbai’s Megacity Mess”. Presided over by Mr. V Ravichandar, Former Member, BATF

Tue, 11 Sep 20075:30 am

Media

Talk by Ms. Kalpana Sharma, Journalist on “Media and Terror”. Presided by Ms. Ammu Joseph, Author and Journalist

Thu, 6 Sep 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of Films made by Nupur Basu: a) Dry Days in Dobbagunta, b) Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj. Discussions were presided over by Dr. Prabha Chandra.

Fri, 31 Aug 20075:30 am

Music

Lecture Demonstration by Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan on “The Shy Girl from Madurai” at Bangalore Gayana Samaj.

Sat, 25 Aug 20075:30 am

Independence Day programmes. Talks by Justice M N Venkatachalaiah, Prof. B K Chandrashekar, Prof. R L M Patil, Dr. Vinod Vyasulu. On the theme, State of the Nation

Wed, 15 Aug 20075:30 am

Programme on “ Meet the Author – Shrabani Basu – The Author of the Book “ The Spy Princess”

Tue, 7 Aug 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of two films made by Mr. Aloke Shetty – “Road to America” (documentary) “Chances Are” (Fiction)

Fri, 3 Aug 20075:30 am

Talk by Shri N Gopalaswami, Chief Election Commissioner on “Conducting Elections – Experiences in recent Elections”

Sun, 29 Jul 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of Iranian Film “At Five in the Afternoon” – FFSI film

Fri, 27 Jul 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of Japanese Film “The Sea is Watching” – FFSI film

Fri, 20 Jul 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of film “The Curse of Talakadu” made by Dr. Sashi Sivaramakrishna

Fri, 13 Jul 20075:30 am

Function to present Gandhian books to bIC Library and Screening of film “Freedom in our Lifetime” by Mr. P A Nazareth, Former Ambassador. Presided by Dr. A Ramachandran

Fri, 6 Jul 20075:30 am

Media

Kannada Journalism Day was celebrated at Centre for Film and Drama. Mr. K Satyanarayana, Dr R Poornima and, Mr. Vishveshwara Bhat. Senior journalists talked on the occasion.

Sun, 1 Jul 20075:30 am

Music

German Classical Music Evening at Ambedkar Bhavan in co-ordination with Indo-German Cultural Society

Sat, 30 Jun 20075:30 am

Talk on “Indo-US Civil Nuclear Co-operation Agreement” By Shri K Sreedhar Rao, Presided by Shri A P Venkateswaran

Fri, 22 Jun 20075:30 am

Screening of film “An Inconvenient Truth : A Global Warning”

Fri, 15 Jun 20075:30 am

Management

Screening of film “Fun@Sun: Making of a Global Workplace” directed by Shri Gautam Sonti in collaboration with Carol Upadhya

Fri, 8 Jun 20075:30 am

Talk by Dr. R K Pachauri on “Climate Change and Global Warming”. The session was presided over by Hon’ble Justice M N Venkatachalaiah, Former Chief Justice of India

Thu, 24 May 20075:30 am

Film

NGC film “Munich Olympic Massacre”

Fri, 11 May 20075:30 am

Media

Talk on “Gender and Media” by Ms. Ammu Joseph. Mrs. Sreelakshmi Gururaja chaired the discussions

Wed, 25 Apr 20075:30 am

Education

Talk on ““Reservations for OBCs in Higher Education – Constitutional Issues and Perspectives” by Mr. Aditya Sondhi, Advocate

Fri, 20 Apr 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of film French “Une Part du Ciel (A Piece of Sky)”

Thu, 5 Apr 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of film “The Corporation”

Sat, 31 Mar 20075:30 am

Film

Screening of Czeck Film “Closely Watched Trains”

Sat, 17 Mar 20075:30 am

Interactive Session on “Urban Governance and Bangalore” Chaired by Dr A Ravindra

Mon, 19 Feb 20075:30 am

Lecture on “Enhancing India’s Constructive Influence in the International Arena” by Prof. James Manor

Tue, 23 Jan 20075:30 am

Third Future Environmental Trends Conference (organised by TERI)

Thu, 14 Dec 20065:30 am

Film

Screening of NGC Film – “Inside : Rolling Stones in Rio”

Mon, 11 Dec 20065:30 am

Theatre

A performance by Arundhati Raja and Jagadish Raja

Sat, 25 Nov 20065:30 am

Music

Hindustani Music by Pandit Madhav Gudi

Fri, 24 Nov 20065:30 am

Management

Talk by Mr. Subroto Bagchi of Mindtree Consulting on “High Performance Entrepreneur”

Thu, 23 Nov 20065:30 am

Music

Ghazal by Akbar Yusufi.

Wed, 22 Nov 20065:30 am

Music

First Anniversary Functions of BIC. Music of Indian Percussion Instruments by Shri Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma and troupe.

Tue, 21 Nov 20065:30 am

Mr Sanjoy Dasgupta’s Memorial Function. (a private function assisted by BIC)

Wed, 1 Nov 20065:30 am

Science

Talk on “Relevance of Cord and Cordblood Stemcell Banking”

Tue, 31 Oct 20065:30 am

Defence & security

Talk on “Armed Forces of India in 21st Century”

Wed, 25 Oct 20065:30 am

Interactive Session on “Urban Water Services – Need for Reform” by Mr. Anand Jalakam

Thu, 5 Oct 20065:30 am

Book Release of “Aster Alibi” by Dr Manjiri Prabhu

Fri, 22 Sep 20065:30 am

Film

Screening of film “ Bin Laden’s Spy in America” by NGC

Tue, 5 Sep 20065:30 am

Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs & Sports visited the Centre and talked to our Members

Mon, 4 Sep 20065:30 am

Talk by Dr Ramachandra Guha on “Democracy and Pluralism in India”

Tue, 27 Jun 20065:30 am

Film

Screening of “Unlocking Da Vinci Code” by National Geographic Channel

Tue, 16 May 20065:30 am

Dance

Lecture Demonstration on various dance forms in India and their basic similarities and differences by Prathibha Prahlad.

Fri, 12 May 20065:30 am

Discussions on “Disaster Management

Thu, 27 Apr 20065:30 am

Film

Screening of “The Gospel of Judas” by National Geographic Channel

Tue, 11 Apr 20065:30 am

Film

Screening of “Most Amazing Moments” by National Geographic Channel

Wed, 22 Mar 20065:30 am