Remembering Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi

 

Remarks by Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, RIS

 

 

 

Speakers: Dr. V. Siddhartha, former Emeritus Scientist, DRDO; Dr. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor & Vice Dean, Jindal Global Law School and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University; Ms Seema Mustafa, Editor, The Citizen; Dr. Dinesh Abrol, Professor, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development; and Dr. Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister

 

 

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

 

 

(Collaboration: RIS)

THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 

11 TO 15 OCTOBER 2019

 

Members are requested to kindly please make a note of the dates for the festival. The festival presents performances, exhibitions, film screenings and cuisine. A separate festival programme card with details of the programmes will be posted separately and announced on the website

 

BHOOMI  2019

“Be a Heart Hero…make a promise”

 

 

 

At 14:00

 

Screening of films on Diet, Smoking and Exercise, BP and BMI Check

 

 

 

At 15:30

 

Scientific Session

 

Chair: Dr. S. Padmavati, President, All India Heart Foundation; and Dr. M. Khalilullah

 

 

 

Heart Attack – Early Intervention is the Key – Speaker: Dr. (Brig.) Y.K. Arora

 

Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases – Speaker: Dr. (Prof.) S. Dwivedi

 

Hypertension – Speaker: Dr. A.P. Arora

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr. A.S. Dave; Dr. Saroj Prakash; Dr. S. Dwivedi; Dr. A.P. Arora; Dr. Y.K. Arora; and Dr. Anita Khalil

 

 

 

(Collaboration: All India Heart Foundation)

FILMS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Water Every Drop Counts (26 min; dvd; English) 

A short film on the world's most precious resource - water. With demand for water likely to double in the next two decades, it is the top priority of countries all round the world to conserve it. And yet in the name of development, countries around the world are fast depleting their water resources… 

 

The Hard Edge (30 min; dvd; English)  

The film focusses on the efforts of Southern African nations to preserve the Zambezi river system comprising of lagoons, lakes, wetlands and wildlife preserves. It focuses on the joint action plan of the Southern African nations sharing the Zambezi river to reconcile the needs of wildlife and people

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

A Dialogue of Rivers

 

 

 

River Dialogues

 

In conversation - Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, Jindal Global Law School and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University; Krupa Ge, author of Rivers Remember, editor & columnist; Minket Lepcha, award-wining filmmaker & director of Voices of Teesta; and Sarandha Jain author of In Search of Yamuna: Reflections on River Lost

 

 

 

A new series of talks and dialogues that hopes to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The series hopes to flow like tributaries into all other rivers like the Brahmaputra, Ganges, Narmada, Indus, Yamuna, Teesta, Gomti, Periyar, Krishna, Godavari, Sabarmati etc. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions. On opening of streams of thought and conversations for a future with exciting possibilities

 

 

 

First in a new series of quarterly river conversations conceptualised by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Journalism and Vice Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat

 

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Western Classical Music in the Mirror of Time

Illustrated lecture by Tomasz Pajak who will introduce and elaborate on the distinctive style characterization of each musical era, interspersed with musical recordings 

 

Tomasz Pajak has studied MA and MM in violin performance and is a violin teacher at the Delhi School of Music and at the Neemrana Music Foundation

 

GANDHI MATTERS

 

In Conversation

Atul Dodiya, Riyas Komu and Gulam Mohd. Sheikh in conversation

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)