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57-526: The Global Film Initiative was founded by Susan Coulter Weeks in 2002 and is advised by a board of directors, and a film-board composed of filmmakers such as Mira Nair , Lars von Trier , Pedro Almodóvar , Bela Tarr , Carlos Reygadas , Christopher Doyle , and Djamshed Usmonov . In 2004, it entered into a partnership with First Run Features for distribution of all films in the Global Lens Film Series, and in 2006, it moved its offices from

114-472: A Heritage Building, extensive restoration and refurbishment work was undertaken in the hostel. It has 120 twin and seven four-person rooms. The day-to-day functioning is taken care of by a full-time resident warden and a housekeeper. The hostel administrative team includes the principal, the vice-principal, the bursar, teacher representatives on the hostel committee, and the hostel warden. Women's Development Cell The Women's Development Cell of Miranda House

171-663: A Walt Disney Pictures production, starred Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo and was based on the story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi . Nair's short films include A Fork, a Spoon and a Knight, inspired by the Nelson Mandela quote, ″Difficulties break some men but make others.″ She contributed to 11'09"01 September 11 (2002) in which 11 filmmakers reacted to the events of 11 September 2001. Other titles include How Can It Be? (2008), Migration (2008), New York, I Love You (2009) and her collaboration with, among others, Emir Kusturica and Guillermo Arriaga on

228-413: A 2-month certificate course in computer applications and a 16-week certificate course in computer applications for visually challenged students. The college does not charge a fee for computer applications for visually challenged students. The Miranda House Library acquired its first book on 22 July 1948. In the beginning it was confined to one room. The present building was constructed under the guidance of

285-404: A Boylston Prize for her performance of Jocasta 's speech from Seneca 's Oedipus . Nair commented on film-making in a 2004 interview with FF2 Media's Jan Huttner: It’s all in how I do it. Keeping the buns on the seats is very important to me. It requires that ineffable thing called rhythm and balance in movie-making. Foils have to be created, counter-weights. From the intimacy, let’s say, of

342-731: A carpet-cleaner business owner (Washington) who falls in love with the daughter (Choudhury) of one of his Indian clients. The film revealed the evident prejudice in African-American and Indian communities. Like Salaam Bombay! , the film was well received by critics, earned a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992, and won three awards at the Venice Film Festival . Nair went on to direct four more films before she produced one of her most notable films, Monsoon Wedding . Released in 2001,

399-504: A collaboration with Nair's Maisha Film Lab, and offers opportunities for international students to work together and share their interests in film-making. In July 2020, journalist Ellen Barry announced that her Pulitzer Prize -nominated story "The Jungle Prince of Delhi" about the " royal family of Oudh ", published in The New York Times , would be adapted into a web series for Amazon Studios by Nair. In March 2021 it

456-405: A convent, following which she left to attend Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla , an Irish-Catholic missionary school, where she developed an infatuation with English literature. Following Tara Hall, Nair went on to study at Miranda House at Delhi University , where she majored in sociology. In order to gain the best education available, Nair applied for transfer to Western schools and, at 19, she

513-418: A customer who regularly visited a local strip club while his wife stayed at home. Nair raised roughly $ 130,000 for the project. The 59-minute film was shot over a span of two months. It was criticized by Nair's family. Her fourth and last documentary, made for Canadian television , explored how amniocentesis was being used to determine the sex of fetuses. Released in 1987, Children of a Desired Sex exposed

570-572: A film, she has the cast and crew start the day with a yoga session. In July 2013, Nair declined an invitation to the Haifa International Film Festival as a "guest of honor" to protest Israel's policies toward Palestine . In postings on her Twitter account, Nair stated "I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone...I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another. I will go to Israel when Apartheid

627-476: A group of workers in an electrical products factory in Mumbai who took time off to laugh during their coffee break. In 1983 with her friend, Sooni Taraporevala , Nair co-wrote Salaam Bombay! . Using her documentary film-making and acting experience, Nair sought out real "street children" to more authentically portray the lives of children who survived in the streets and were deprived of a true childhood. Though

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684-425: A love scene to the visceral, jugular quality of war. That shift is something in the editing, how one cuts from the intimate to the epic that keeps you there waiting. The energy propels you. Nair said to Image Journal in 2017 that she chose directing over any other art form because it was collaborative. "That’s why I am neither a photographer nor writer," she said. "I like to work with people, and my strength, if any,

741-671: A perfect example of what a lady should be. Its foundation stone was laid by Lady Edwina Mountbatten on 7 March of the same year. Miranda House is built of red bricks on the university campus. Its original design was planned by the architect Walter Sykes George and is architecturally similar to other educational institutions in India founded in the colonial era. As the college grew, several buildings were added. Alumni and students of this college are known as Mirandians. Miranda House started with 33 students in July 1948, which rose to 105 by September

798-519: A prestigious 'Science Award' is given to a student from all the science departments and years on the basis of a test scores and a presentation on a contemporary and interdisciplinary topic. Summer internships, lectures and camps have been successfully organized by the centre. The placement cell of the college consists of faculty members and student volunteers. The Placement Cell coordinates the activities of career counseling and campus recruitment. Miranda House has ranked first among colleges in India by

855-419: A quadrangle, with gardens placed out by bottle palms. In the past six decades, as the college has grown, several other buildings have been added to its original design. The campus is now declared a heritage building. Since the beginning, Miranda House has undergone numerous physical changes and has grown with additions to its original layout plan. The major features of its structure are the main college building,

912-480: A series of workshops and lectures on aspects of inter-cultural business interactions and marketing. These sessions were conducted by faculty from the Utrecht Business School as well as Delhi University. The Students' Union consists of the president, vice president, general secretary and two central councillors. These office bearers are elected by the students. The Students' Union organizes TEMPEST,

969-402: A social cause like Run for Peace, Run for Our Kargil Heroes, Plant More Trees, etc. The school provides special coaching for basketball, chess , cross-country race , softball , tennis , table tennis, track and field, volleyball and other games like cricket as per student demand. College teams participate in inter-college and open tournaments. Many students are selected to represent Delhi in

1026-440: A week-long course on management and culture. Sixteen students from Miranda House and fifteen from Sri Ram College of Commerce participated in the program. The program was the second of a series initiated in 2008 with support from K. Sreenivas, dean of international relations at University of Delhi. It was initiated by presentations by students from each country showcasing their business and cultural environments. Students then attended

1083-588: A year, premiering annually at the Museum of Modern Art , New York in late-January, following its premiere the series is screened in fifteen to twenty cities across the United States, in collaboration with various cultural and cinematic organizations and institutions, before going into general distribution through GFI's distribution-partner, First Run Features. The Acquisitions program acquires eight to ten feature-length narrative films per year for presentation in

1140-548: Is a fifty-two-minute film that followed an Indian newspaper dealer living in the subways of New York, while his pregnant wife waited for him to return home. This film was recognized as a Best Documentary winner at the American Film Festival and New York's Global Village Film Festival. Her third documentary, India Cabaret , released in 1984, revealed the exploitation of female strippers in Bombay , and followed

1197-635: Is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City . Her production company, Mirabai Films , specializes in films for international audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural spheres. Among her best known films are Mississippi Masala , The Namesake , the Golden Lion –winning Monsoon Wedding , and Salaam Bombay! , which received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and

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1254-829: Is an integral part of the college, constituting women working together for a gender equal world while categorically expanding their feminist politics. Miranda House constitutes various cultural societies including Mridang (Indian Dance), Tanz (Western Dance), Anukriti (Hindi Dramatics), Ariels (English Dramatics), Geetanjali (Indian Music), Orpheus (Western Music), Celluloid (Film Club), Snapshots (Photography), BlueQuill (Creative Writing Club), Enactus (social entrepreneurship), Adwitiya (Fine Arts), Shabdita (Hindi literary society), Debating Society, Quiz Society, Gandhi Study Circle, TULA, MH Vatavaran, etc. The societies have members who enter through ECA trials and then, additional members are selected through various rounds of auditions. Miranda House NCC Company has 160 cadets, of whom 80 are enrolled in

1311-549: Is one of the top ranked colleges of the country and ranked number 1 for consecutively seven years (as of 2023). Miranda House was founded in 1948 by the university vice-chancellor, Sir Maurice Gwyer . In a magazine published by him in 1952, he gave three reasons for why the college was called Miranda. His favorite actress was Carmen Miranda , his daughter's name was Miranda, and a character named Miranda in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest was, according to him,

1368-554: Is over. I will go to Israel, soon. I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) & the larger Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Mov’t." Nair was subsequently praised by PACBI, which stated that her decision to boycott Israel "helps to highlight the struggle against colonialism and apartheid." She subsequently tweeted "I will go to Israel, soon." Documentary films TV movies Feature films Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in

1425-479: Is that. Working with life." At the start of her film-making career, Nair primarily made documentaries in which she explored Indian cultural tradition. For her film thesis at Harvard between 1978 and 1979, Nair produced a black-and-white film titled Jama Masjid Street Journal . In the eighteen-minute film, Nair explored the streets of Old Delhi and had casual conversations with Indian locals. In 1982, she made her second documentary titled So Far from India , which

1482-805: The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language . Mira Nair was born on 15 October 1957 in Rourkela , Orissa , India, and grew up with her two older brothers and parents in Bhubaneswar . Her father, Amrit Lal Nair, was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service and her mother, Parveen Nayyar, is a social worker who often focused on children. She lived in Bhubaneswar until age 18, and attended

1539-568: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. Located in the University of Delhi's north campus enclave, Miranda House was designed by architect Walter Sykes George in a similar style to other colonial educational institutions of the country. The college hostel is among the oldest residential buildings in the university. The hostel section is laid out in

1596-813: The West Village of New York to the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco , California (USA). Their office is currently located in the Ninth Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco. Global Lens is a traveling film series composed of cinematic works from developing nations or regions (i.e. Africa , Latin America , Asia , the Middle East , Oceania , etc.). It shows up to ten narrative feature-films

1653-414: The humanities and social sciences since then. Miranda House provides liberal education in social sciences, humanities and the basic sciences. The college's infrastructure includes teaching laboratories and general facilities. As of 2012 , Miranda House has more than 4,000 students. Miranda House offers a wide array of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. All undergraduate courses commencing from

1710-629: The All India Inter University competitions and national-level competitions. The college organizes an inter-college table tennis tournament for men and women. The other important date in the sports calendar is the college's Annual Sports Day. A team of 17 students and three faculty members from the Utrecht Business School, Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences visited the University of Delhi for an inter-cultural contact program from 19 to 23 October 2009. Miranda House and Sri Ram College of Commerce hosted this team through

1767-650: The Army wing. As per change in the NCC policy making training for two years, many second-year students can join NCC. NSS has two core activities: teaching the children of the support staff and the underprivileged children in the neighboring areas; reading and recording for the visually challenged students of the college. Volunteers also participate in seminars, social campaigns and related competitions. The department organizes fresher competitions in cross-country race , basketball and table tennis . Cross-country races are always for

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1824-773: The English Language Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Short films TV series She was awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007. In 2012 she was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan by President of India, Pratibha Patil . Miranda House Miranda House is a constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. Established in 1948, it

1881-813: The Global Film Initiative are often acquired for presentation in the Global Lens Film Series, and since its inception, the Granting program has supported the production of a number of award-winning films, many of which have been nominated as official country selections in the Foreign Language category of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ' awards ceremony, the Academy Awards . (Films listed in alphabetical order) Mira Nair Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957)

1938-665: The Global Lens Film Series. Films acquired by GFI are discovered through the Granting program and also through independent festivals and sales-initiatives, such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam , Berlinale , and CineMart, and all films are selected for their artistic excellence, authentic self-representation and accomplished storytelling. Documentary and/or short films are not considered. The Granting program awards up to twenty grants each year to filmmakers whose projects are nearing completion or in post-production. Projects awarded grants by

1995-869: The Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984, students of Miranda House organized relief camps for the victims. Film-maker Shonali Bose , who was a student at Miranda, made the Sikh riots the subject of her film Amu . Students protested "unreasonable curfew times" for women in 2015, in a campaign called "Break the Cage." Notable alumni include: Filmmaker and Miranda House alumnus Mira Nair shot scenes of her movie The Reluctant Fundamentalist , starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson , at Miranda House. Miranda House also appears in Neeraj Pandey's Akshay Kumar starrer Special 26 . Pandey needed to replicate CBI headquarters, for which

2052-480: The University of Delhi were instructed to return to the previous three-year format for first degrees. Now a Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) is being followed in the University of Delhi. The college offers one-year certificate courses in French , German , and Spanish in collaboration with the department of Germanic and Romance studies and department of East Asian studies, University of Delhi. The college offers

2109-463: The aborting of female fetuses due to society's favoring male offspring. In 2001, with The Laughing Club of India, she explored laughter based on yoga . Founder Dr. Madan Kararia spoke of the club's history and the growth of laughing clubs across the country, and subsequently the world. The documentary included testimonials from members of the laughter clubs who described how the practice had improved or changed their lives. Its featured segments included

2166-425: The academic reception of Nair's adaptation of The Reluctant Fundamentalist , The Journal of Commonwealth Literature questions "how the ambivalence and provocativeness of the 'source' text translates into the film adaptation, and the extent to which the film format makes the narrative more palatable and appealing to wider audiences as compared to the novel’s target readership." Nair's 2016 film Queen of Katwe ,

2223-423: The academic year 2014-15 are according to the three-year undergraduate honours degree system. Students enroll for M.A. and M.Sc. programmes in the college; classes are held at the respective departments at the university. The University of Delhi introduced the four-year undergraduate program scheme in the academic year 2013-14. All undergraduate programs offered by the University of Delhi would thenceforth be for

2280-537: The annual cultural festival of Miranda House, and addresses all student-related problems. In 1970 the Miss Miranda beauty contest was abolished by an overwhelming majority of students despite strong opposition by the principal and faculty members. Led by the president of the Student Union, feminist activist Madhu Kishwar , the students protested against beauty being the criterion for the contest. During

2337-445: The cafeteria. Miranda House was a residence before it became a college. Miranda House hostel was founded in 1948 by the vice-chancellor, Sir Maurice Gwyer; its foundation stone was laid by Lady Edwina Mountbatten on 7 March the same year. The building was designed by architect Walter George. The dining hall has a high arched ceiling, monastic tables and benches. There is a common room and an open coffee lounge attached to it. Declared

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2394-600: The compilation feature Words with Gods . A longtime activist, Nair set up an annual film-makers' laboratory, Maisha Film Lab in Kampala, Uganda. Since 2005, young directors in East Africa have been trained at this non-profit facility with the belief that " If we don't tell our stories, no one else will ". Maisha is currently building a school with Architect Raul Pantaleo, winner of Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and his company Studio Tamassociati. In 1998, she used

2451-496: The duration of four years, with multiple exit options and the inclusion of research components. This reform was intended to provide greater flexibility and wider range of choices to the students. In June 2014, after a lot of controversy, speculation and protests, the four-year undergraduate program was removed according to the directives of the University Grants Commission . All the constituent colleges of

2508-617: The film Mississippi Masala . Like his wife, Mamdani teaches at Columbia University . Their son, Zohran Mamdani , was born in Uganda in 1991. In 2020, Zohran won a seat representing Astoria, Queens in the New York State Assembly after defeating incumbent Assemblymember Aravella Simotas in the Democratic primary election earlier in the year. Nair has been an enthusiastic yoga practitioner for decades; when making

2565-706: The film did not do well at the box office, it won 23 international awards, including the Camera D’or and Prix du Public at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988. Salaam Bombay! was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 1989. Nair and Taraporevala continued to challenge audiences with the 1991 film Mississippi Masala , which told the story of Ugandan-born Indians displaced in Mississippi . The film, featuring Denzel Washington , Roshan Seth , and Sarita Choudhury , centers on

2622-612: The film told the story of a Punjabi Indian wedding, written by Sabrina Dhawan . Employing a small crew and casting some of Nair's acquaintances and relatives, the film grossed over $ 30 million worldwide. The film was awarded the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival , making Nair the first female recipient of the award. Nair then directed the Golden Globe-winning Hysterical Blindness (2002), followed by making William Makepeace Thackeray 's epic Vanity Fair (2004). In 2007, Nair

2679-467: The founder librarian, P. Tandon. The foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 7 March 1973. The new library block is a double-storeyed building consisting of deposit-counter, issue-of-books counter, stack hall, reserve section, reading hall, teachers' reading room, magazine section, and administrative section. Miranda House is the first college to establish a computer-based resource centre to aid its visually challenged students. Work on

2736-439: The library, and the hostel block. In the 1950s, the new building for lectures was constructed. The principal's office, college office, teachers' lounge, students' common room, and sheds for four college buses were built during this period. The college auditorium, equipped with microphones, and the cafeteria building came up during this time. New classrooms were added by partitioning the old library hall. The new administrative section

2793-756: The profits from Salaam Bombay! to create the Salaam Baalak Trust which works with street children in India. A musical adaptation of Monsoon Wedding , directed by Nair, premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre , running from 5 May to 16 July 2017. As of 2015, she lives in New York City, where she is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of the School of Arts for Columbia University . The university has

2850-728: The resource centre was initiated in 2006, with an endowment from Ms Manju Kapur Dalmia, author and member of teaching faculty at Miranda House. D S Kothari Centre for Research and Innovation in Science Education and Amstel Institute ( University of Amsterdam , the Netherlands) have instituted this project in collaboration. The primary objective is to improve the quality of science education in schools by introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools embedded in carefully designed learning environments. The centre conducts baseline tests for undergraduate students and

2907-409: The same year. It was 2,090 in 1997–98. The academic staff increased from six in 1948 to 120 (permanent) in 1997–98 and that of non-academic staff from 11 in 1948 (five in the hostel and six in the college) to 120 in 1997–98. The college accommodation (hostel) housed 43 students in 1948, of whom seven were enrolled at other colleges of the University of Delhi. There are now 250 students in the hostel. At

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2964-419: The time of its founding, Miranda House had six departments; as of 2012 , there were eighteen. Miranda House pioneered science education for women at the University of Delhi when it started its B.Sc. Honours (Botany) course in 1948. Science teaching was conducted in the university and in 1963–64, B.Sc. General and in 1971, B.Sc. Honours teaching work started in the college. Many new subjects have been introduced in

3021-660: Was also honored with the Pride of India award at the Bollywood Movie Awards . This was followed by the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia (2009), starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere . In 2012, Nair directed The Reluctant Fundamentalist , a thriller based on the best-selling novel by Mohsin Hamid. It opened the 2012 Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim and was released worldwide in early 2013. For

3078-581: Was announced Nair would direct a ten episode TV series for Disney+ reimagining the National Treasure series with a new cast. In 1977, Nair met her first husband, Mitch Epstein , when taking photography classes at Harvard University. They divorced by 1987, and in 1988 Nair met her second husband, the Indo-Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani , while in Uganda doing research for

3135-592: Was asked to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , but turned it down to work on The Namesake . Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize -winner Jhumpa Lahiri , Sooni Taraporevala's screenplay follows the son of Indian immigrants who wants to fit in with New York City society, but struggles to get away from his family's traditional ways. The film was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award and

3192-401: Was built in the centre of the teaching wing. Some classrooms on the ground floor were converted into the administrative block, which also houses the principal's new office. In its Golden Jubilee Year, the college auditorium was renovated under the supervision of interior designer and old Mirandian Ketaki Sood. A rock garden was set up in the space behind the students' common room and in front of

3249-409: Was offered a full scholarship to Cambridge University , but ultimately turned it down and instead accepted a full scholarship to Harvard University . Before she became a filmmaker, Nair was originally interested in acting, and at one point she performed plays written by Badal Sarkar , a Bengali performer . While she studied at Harvard University, Nair became involved in the theater program and won

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