Magazine January 2012
Somerville Media Club
Tessa Ross (pictured near left), Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4, yesterday (18th January 2012) explained how the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' came to be made to members of her alma mater Somerville College's Media Network, at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London. The 2008 film - which cost $15 million to make grossed in excess of $377 million in sales, won 8 Oscars and made stars of Dev Patel and Frieda Pinto - was based on Indian Diplomat Vikas Swarup's book 'Q&A'.
London Olympia played host to LWF12 (25th - 26th January), the premier learning conference and festival dubbed the "Davos of education", which this year debated "superstructures and the future of learning”. Among the host of speakers were innovator Ray Kurzweil, yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur, Conrad Wolfram founder of Wolfram Research Europe Ltd, author and strategist Charles Leadbeater and games hero Super Mario!
Learning Without Frontiers 2012
King's India Institute inauguration
The Rt Hon William Hague MP, UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, inaugurated the King's India Institute on Indian Republic Day (26th January 2012) with a keynote speech in which he emphasized the growing importance of UK-India bilateral relations; and congratulated King's College, London in launching the new institute.
Pictured L-R: Professior Sunil Khilnani, The Earl of Douro and The Rt. Hon William Hague MP.
The King's India Institute is already becoming a world-leading institution for global engagement with contemporary India. The Institute is pioneering a unique interdisciplinary approach to research on contemporary India, with experts from across the fields of social sciences, policy, law, security studies, science and health.
Pictured L-R: Lopa Patel MBE, Patricia Hewitt and Dilip Joshi MBE.
King's India Institute
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