Roundtable on Contribution of Parsis in the Development of India
 

Speakers include: Mobed Pedram Suroosh, Iranian Zoroastrian Member of Mobed (Priest Society); Dr. Mojtabie, Indologist; H.E. Dr. Ali Chegeni, Ambassador of Iran; and others

 

Hindustani  Classical Vocal Recital

By Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan from Ahmadabad of the Agra-Atrauli gharana,  recipient of the Sanskriti – Pt. Vasant Thakar Memorial Fellowship 2019

 

Accompanists: Shri Vinod Lele on the tabla and Shri Vinay Mishra on Harmonium 

 

(Collaboration: Sanskriti Pratishthan)

In Conversation
 

With Ms Kalpana Palkhiwala: Project Bapu Geetika

An audio compilation of 108 songs/poems on Mahatma Gandhi

 

Bapu Geetika – Songs for the Mahatma is a platform for disseminating songs of and for Mahatma Gandhi. A compendium of 108 songs that celebrate Gandhiji, its intention is to take this music and connect people with Gandhiji’s life and message across India and beyond. It comprises the work of 100 luminary poets in 14 Indian languages set to music, spanning 70 years from Gandhiji’s life time to the present.

 

 

Ms Kalpana Palkhiwala will be in conversation about this project

 

Ms Kalpana Ben Palkhiwala, is a Gandhian who retired as Deputy Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. She has translated many books, written a number of articles and is a Guest Lecturer at Gujarat Vidyapeeth and is also associated with the L.J. Institute of Media and Communication, Ahmedabad

 

(Collaboration: Gujarati Club, New Delhi)

GANDHI MATTERS

 

Ahinsak Bhasha ki Talash

By Prof Apoorvanand, Delhi University 

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Films of the Spirit

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Ghatashraddha, (Kannada)

(144 min; 1977; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Girish  Kasaravalli

 

Set in a rural orthodox Brahmin Karnataka village, Kasaravalli’s first feature film tells the story of a child widow through the eyes of a young boy. Yamuna a young widow stays in an agrahara with her father Udupa, who runs a Veda Pathshala. Nani, the new entrant to the school likes her. Yamuna befriends the village school teacher and becomes pregnant. Soon the villagers find out and terming it “immoral” they decide to outcast her by performing the Ghatashraddha ritual

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility; and National Film Archive, Pune)

 

 

Subliminal Bridges

Rtusamhara – a mentorship programme for poetry

 

Poetry recitations by Be Lagaam poets

Introduction: Anand Khatri

 

(Collaboration: Poesis Society for Poetry)

Fourth L.C. Jain Memorial Lecture 2020

 

Fighting for Freedoms: The Supreme Court in the 21st Century

Speaker: Justice Shri A.P. Shah

 

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar

 

(Collaboration: ADR; and LC Jain Family)

MONDAY 10

 

CONFERENCE ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX  AT 18:00

Inaugural session of 

International Conference on Understanding Africa: Continuity and Change

Introduction to the conference: Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan, Coordinator of the Conference, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and former Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria

 

Keynote Address: Ambassador Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yai, former President, UNESCO Executive Board

 

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

 

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)  

 

4TH IIC/OPEN HEALTH SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM

 

Biomedical Data Sciences – New Name with New Opportunities for Change?

Lead presentation by Prof. Philip E. Bourne, Stephenson Dean of the School of Data Science, Professor of Data Science & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

 

Discussants: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Architect of India’s initiative in supercomputing and Chancellor, Nalanda University, Bihar; Dr. B. Jayaram, Professor Emeritus, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems; and Dr. Jefferey Buchsbaum, Radiation Oncologist and Programme Director, Radiation Research Programme, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda

 

Chair: Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

 

Biomedicine, always at the forefront of open data aggregation and reuse, is now being influenced by other fields where the application of data science is rapidly expanding. What are other fields telling us and what do we, scientists, funders and governments need to do differently to instill a cultural change, which is never easy?