Stage Buzz: American Center-New Delhi

September 2008

“America Days” at your doorstep!

To promote people-to-people dialogue and friendship, American Officers will visit key cities across India in the week of September 8-12, to discuss the U.S. Elections, American higher education, and other topics of mutual interest. We welcome this opportunity to meet with those outside New Delhi who are interested in knowing more about the United States.

5 Friday Flick: “On the Waterfront”

Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.

1800 hrs.

8 Talk: “Brush Uup Your fundamentals about Management Studies in the United States,” by Raja Ashraf, Assistant Director, MBA Admissions Office, Stanford University, CA

1430 hrs.

10 Information Session: “Short Listing U.S. Universities”

Presented by U.S. – India Educational Foundation

1600 hrs.

12 Friday Flick: “North Country”

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines. A woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

1800 hrs.

13 NEW – Saturday Cinema Film Focus: Frank Capra

You Can't Take it with You: Alice Sycamore, the only normal person from a zany family falls in love with her boss, Tony Kirby, but the relation breaks up, when during a dinner at her home, the house is raided by the police and everyone is arrested on suspicion of anarchism.

1400 hrs.

13 It's a Wonderful Life: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been had he never existed. 1600 hrs.

18 Presentation: “Rockin' in English: Understanding American Music”

by Richard Boyum, Director, Regional English Language Office

1530 hrs.

19 Friday Flick: “The Grapes of Wrath”

Oklahoma in the Thirties is a dustbowl and dispossessed farmers migrate westward to California. After terrible trials en route they become little more than slave labor. Among the throng are the Joads who refuse to give up under the pressure.

1800 hrs.

24 Information Session: “Best Advice on Undergraduate and Graduate Education in the U.S.”

Presented by U.S. – India Educational Foundation

1600 hrs.

26 Friday Flick: “Erin Brokovich”

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

1800 hrs.

American Experts in New Delhi

(For more information please call 23472297 )

Dr. Clayborne Carson, Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of Martin

Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and the MLK Library at Stanford will

speak on “Gandhi and Martin Luther King,” September 3-4

Mr. Keyvan Sadigh, Strategist for Google, will speak on “Volunteerism,” September 22-26

Mr. Walter Fluker, Executive Director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College,

will speak on “Ethical Leadership,” September 17

1800 hrs

· All programs take place at the American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg. Seating for events is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Please carry a photo identity card to enter the American Center.

· Media planning to cover events at the American Center are requested to notify the Embassy’s Press Office in advance (Tel. 2419 8814).

· Mobile phones and laptops are allowed within the American Center. However, for security reasons, photography through mobile phones is prohibited.

Editor: Manohar Khushalani