Festival of India 3 - 13 December |
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This Fourth Festival of India follows the success and popularity of the first 3 festivals held in November 2008, November 2009 and November 2010. This year, the Festival will be done on an even larger scale.
The main venue of the Festival is the prestigious Borges Cultural Centre where the dance and music programmes, the exihibition of handicrafts and the Film festival will be held.
Golf at the exclusive Jockey Club of Buenos Aires
Food Festival at the Sheraton Hotel
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There will bean exhibition and sale of handicrafts by 40 Indian companies at the Borges Centre.
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The exhibition will be from 12 to 8 pm at the Borges Cultural Center (3-13 December). |
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Live Demostration of Handicrafts |
Eight Indian artisans will give live demonstrations of handicrafts at the Borges centre from 12.00 to 20.00 hrs.
The music and dance festival will be performed by groups from India and local Argentines who have mastered Indian dance and music. |
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Manipuri dance group Manipuri is one of the six major classical dances of . The most interesting part of Manipur dance is its colorful decoration, lightness of dancing foot, delicacy of abhinaya (drama), lilting music and poetic charm. The Manipuri dance form is mostly ritualistic and draws heavily from the rich culture of the state of Manipur. Costumes used in the Manipur dance are colorful and the music carries a quaint charm. Manipuri dance is entirely religious and aims at gaining spiritual experience. The Manipuri dance is not only a medium of worship and delight but also essential for all socio-cultural ceremonies of Manipuri people. |
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Rabindra Sangeet Rabindra Sangeet is a music genre created by Rabindranath Tagore. Sreyashi Mitra from Kolkata is an exponenet of several genres of Bengali music.She has performed in many countries around the world. |
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PROGRAMME
Saturday 3 (Centro Cultural Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h. Rabindra Sangeet
19.45 to 21.00 h. Bollydance by Manisha
Sunday 4 (CC Borges- Av. De Mayo)
19.30 to 19.45 h. R. Sangeet (Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h. Manipuri (Av. de Mayo)
19.45 to 21.00 h Classic Dance by Myrta Bariviè (Borges)
19.45 to 21.00 h Yoga Rave (Av. de Mayo)
Wednesday 7 (CC Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h. R. Sangeet
19.45 to 21.00 h Leo Fernández
Thursday 8 (CC Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h. R. Sangeet
19.45 to 20.20 h. Bollydance by Laksmi Devi
Friday 9 (Centro Cultural Recoleta)
18.00 to 20.00 h. R. Sangeet
18.00 to 20.00 h. Bollydance by Manisha
18.00 to 20.00 h. Sahaja Yoga
Saturday 10 (CC Borges- Villa Ocampo)
19.30 to 19.45 h Classic Dance by Myrta Bariviè (Borges)
18.00 h. R. Sangeet (Villa Ocampo)
Sunday 11 (CC Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h. R. Sangeet
19.45 to 21.00 h. Bollydance by Manisha
Monday 12 (CC Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h R. Sangeet
19.45 to 21 h Bollydance by Laksmi
Tuesday 13 (CC Borges)
19.30 to 19.45 h R. Sangeet
19.45 to 21.00 h. Classic Dance by Myrta Barivié
There will be daily screenings of Indian films with spanish subtitles in the Borges Centre auditorium.
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Monday 5
14 hs Hum dil de Chuke Sanam
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai
Drama, Romance
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Thusday 6
14 hs Taare Zameen Par
Cast: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan y Tanay Chheda
Drama
Director: Aamir Khan
Wednesday 7
14 hs Kisna
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Antonia Bernath, Isha Sharvani, Polly Adams, Michael Maloney, Caroline Langrishe, Amrish Puri, Om Puri
Romance, Drama
Director: Subhash Ghai
20 hs Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukherji, Anupan Kher, Farida Jalal, Archana Puran Singh, Johnny Lever, Sana Saeed
Comedy
Director: Karan Johar
Thursday 8
14 hs Fire
Cast: Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi
Drama, Romance
Director: Deepa Mehta
20hs Black
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee and Shernaz Patel
Drama
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Friday 9
14 hs Parineeta
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan and Raima Sen
Drama, Romance
Director: Pradeep Sarkar
20 hs Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Cast: Amitabh bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Kajol
Drama, Romance
Director: Karan Johar
Saturday 10
14 hs Pinjar
Cast: Urmila Matondkar ,Manoj Bajpai
Drama
Director: Dr. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
20 hs Eklavya
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Raima Sen, Jackie Shroff, Jimmy Shergill, Boman Irani
Drama, Action
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Sunday 11
14 hs Water
Cast: Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Sarala Kariyawasam, Manorama
Drama
Director: Deepa Mehta
Monday 12
14 hs Jodhaa Akbar
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sonu Sood, Ila Arun
Action, Adventure
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Tuesday 13
14 hs Earth
Cast: Aamir Khan, Maia Sethna, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi
Drama, Romance, War
Director: Deepa Mehta
The Food Festival will take place every night from 2030 hrs onwards at the Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires.
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Two chefs from India will prepare the Indian food. There will be Indian music and dancing at the restaurant reservations - Hotel Sheraton: 4318 9213. |
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¨The New India and the New Latin America – Synergies and Complementarities¨
Seminar on 5 December 2011
Hotel Sheraton, Buenos Aires
1400 hrs. Arrival of guests
1430 hrs. Ambassador Viswanathan ¨Adding passion to the Synergies and Complementarities¨
1450 hrs. Osvaldo Rosales, Director of International Trade and Integration, ECLAC ¨Latin American economies - an overview¨
1510 hrs. Jai Shroff, CEO, United Phosphorus Limited (UPL) ¨The new mindset of Indian entrepreneurs¨
1530 hrs. Ambassador Horacio Salvador, Director General, Ministry of External Affairs of Argentina
1540 hrs. Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes, Secretary General, Mercosur, Montevideo
¨India-Mercosur Partnership¨
1600 hrs. Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Senior Director – Head of Latin America, World Economic Forum ¨Latin America - the decade ahead¨
1620 – 1630 hrs. Coffee break
1630 -1800 hrs. Session on India- Latin America business
Moderator: Dr. Sergio Lais-Suarez, Honorary Consul of India, Cordoba
Speakers:
- Gustavo Grobocopatel, President, Los Grobo Group, Argentina
- Kapil Gulati, Director for Americas, Havells Sylvania, San Jose, Costa Rica
- G.V. Mani, Senior Director, CRISIL, Mumbai
- Gabriel Rozman, Executive Vice-President, TCS , Mumbai
- Satya Muley, CEO, Pidilite Brasil, Sao Paulo
- Ramakrishna Karuturi, founder &Managing Director, Karuturi Global, Bangalore
1800 – 1810 hrs. Coffee break
1810 - 1920 hrs. Session on the markets and mindsets of the New India and New Latin America
Moderator : Dr. Jorge Heine, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario
Speakers:
- Oliver Stuenkel Assistant Professor, Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV), Sao Paulo
- Mr. Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor, ´The Hindu´ newspaper of India, Chennai
- Raul Rivera, President, ForoInnovacion, Santiago
1920 hrs. Raffle of two Qatar Airways tickets to India
1930 – 2100 hrs. Indian classical music & dance, Bollywood and Tango (by an Indian) Dances
2100 – 2230 hrs. Cocktail
We´ll have seminars on: Tagore, Yoga, Ayurveda, Religion, Tourism, Mahabarata, Indian food, etc. All of them are going to be held at Centro Cultral Borges.
Tuesday 6 – 18h
Indian Theatre
Geraldine Seff
Actress y Drama teacher
Another way of being: women in India
Sonya Gupta
Director, Centre for European and Latinamerican Studies, New Delhi
Wednesday 7 – 18h
Sahaja Yoga
Andrés Marando and Luz Andrea Velasco Prada
Sahaja Yoga Instructors, specialized in Kundalini Energy
Thursday 8 – 18h
Food & Health for women
Jorge Luis Berra
Ayurvedic Doctor, Director of Ayurveda programme, School of Medicine and of the Prema Ayurveda Health Foundation.
Friday 9 – 18h
The wisdom of the Upanishads
Prof. Gustavo Canzobre
Director of Hastinapura Foundation and founder of Hastinapura Editorial. Religion and philosophy professor.
Saturday 10 – 18h (At Villa Ocampo by invitation only)
Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo: a love story
Axel Maimone
Expert in Victoria Ocampo.
Poems by Prof. Gustavo Canzobre.
Rabindra Sangeet
Sunday 11 – 18h
Restoring spirit greatness: learning to meditate
Amalia Britos
Director of the National Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University in Argentina.
Tuesday 13 – 18h
Rabindranath Tagore: universal poet
Leonor Calvera
Language teacher, poet and writer. Reasercher of compared religions
Current education and Tagore’s contributions to Indian education
Hugo Labate
Education Sciences Reasercher, specialized in the translation of classic indian texts.
Photography Exhibition |
This will be held at the Recolecta Cultural Centre from december 5 to february 26. Open from Monday to Friday 14.00 to 21.00 hrs, and Saturday and Sundays 10.00 to 21.00 hrs.
Photos of Matias Camissani, Bernardo Caravajal, Marco Cristiani, Matilde Gyselynck, Martina Siegrist and Estefania Tejerina will be exhibited.
The Fourth India Cup Golf Tournament will take place on 12 December at the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires (Colorada course). Participation in the tournament is by invitation only.
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Our sponsors |
The embassy thanks the following sponsors:
Platinum sponsors
India Tourism Office, New York
United Phosporous Ltd
Godrej Group
Qatar Airways
TCS
Gold sponsors
Sylvania
Sintesis Quimica
Cognizant
Citi
Aegis
Olam
Silver sponsors
One Click
Dreyfus
Level Tur
irevna
La Martina
Freddo
Boston Seguros
Mahindra
Glenmark
Rossi y Caruso
Buke Golf
Chateau Hana
