The Italian Embassy Cultural Centre is pleased to present the screening of the documentary Chandra – The Journey of a Star directed by Enrico Agapito & written by Giuseppe Mussardo.
This 2009 film delves into the life and scientific contributions of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist renowned for his work on stellar structure and evolution. The documentary traces his journey from his early days in India to his groundbreaking research at Cambridge University, highlighting his development of the Chandrasekhar limit, a pivotal concept in understanding the life cycles of stars.
The film will be introduced by its writer Giuseppe Mussardo and will be followed by a Q&A session.
Synopsis
On the morning of 1st August 1930 in Bombay, the wharf of the P&O — Peninsular and Oriental Lines — was fully crowded and there was the usual confusion of any departure: porters were loading luggage and big crates, officers were busy in giving the last orders and sailors were climbing up and down from the decks among ropes and shrouds. Foreigners walked around looking with open admiration at the Gateway of India, considered the quintessence of colonial India, a monument erected by England in the Twenties to be the symbol of its entry in the Raj, but that was going to become soon the sad witness of its leaving.
Till a few hours before, the rain carried by the monsoon had swept the docks with strong gusts, but after a brief pause of relief, a suffocating heat had reappeared; the heavy humidity soaked the dresses that, almost transparent, stuck to the bodies. Near the pier of the steamer Pilsna, a liner of Lloyd Triestino travelling from Bombay to Venice, a small crowd was gathering there were friends and relatives come to bid farewell to a young man heading for Europe.
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