It is tempting to sit in and cuddle a hot water bottle but beat the feeling and go out and do something stimulating and rewarding. Did you know there was a Indo-Hellenic Friendship League? Anyone can become a member and it costs Rupees 250.If you are interested in both cultures as I am then go for it as they have two interesting Greek Films at the Habitat Centre in Delhi.

January 22nd The Trojan Women 7:00pm
FILM
(English/1971/105mins) Dir. Mihalis Kakogiannis. Cast: Katherine Hepburn & Vanessa Redgrave. The story of enslavement of the women of Troy after the fall of their city.


January 25th Antigone 7:00pm
FILM
(Greek/1961/93mins) Dir. Yorgos Javellas. Cast: Irene Pappas. A cinematic adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. King Creon decrees that Polynices, the traitor, is not to be buried, but his sister Antigone defies the order.