Speaker: Ms Noor Zaheer, writer and researcher, writes in English, Hindi and Urdu.  Some of her works include:   Denied by Allah, My God is a Woman, Silent Dunes, Raging Forests, Mere Hisse ki Roshnai, Surkh Karavan ke Hamsafar (Hindi travelogue-Pakistan), Aaj ke Naam (Biography of Faiz Ahmed Faiz), The Dancing Lama on Buddhist Performance Traditions of North Western Himalayas. A committed theatre worker Noor Zaheer writes and directs plays, conducts theatre workshops and adapts and translates plays by well-known playwrights

Chair: Shri Kishore Thukral

To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990

 

Discussion on 'Where is Indian Media headed?'

Speakers: Ms Pamela Philipose, senior journalist and senior fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Shri M. K. Venu, Founding Editor, The Wire; and  

Shri Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Catch News

 

Moderator: Suhas Borker

 

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)

To Mark the 26th Anniversary of the Presidential assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990

 

Discussion on 'Where is Indian Media headed?'

Speakers: Ms Pamela Philipose, senior journalist and senior fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research; Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, former Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Shri M. K. Venu, Founding Editor, The Wire; and  

Shri Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Catch News

 

Moderator: Suhas Borker

 

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)

 

Sitar Recital

By Anjan Saha from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Debiprasad Chatterjee

 

 

Illustrated lecture by Kathryn Hansen, leading scholar of South Asian theatre history, with special expertise in the popular traditions in Hindi and Urdu and Professor Emerita of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, where she served as Director of the Center for Asian Studies. Her book, Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies, presents the life stories of four artists from the Parsi theatre. Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India, her first monograph, won the A.K. Coomaraswamy Book Prize

Chair: Dr. Shernaz Cama

 

 

(Collaboration: PARZOR)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote Speaker: Shri Deepak Gupta, Former Chairman UPSC 

 

Chair: Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary to the President of India 

 

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

 

 

Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts

By Aakash Singh Rathore and Rimina Mohapatra (New Delhi: OUP, 2017)

 

Panelists: Prof. Makarand R. Paranjape, Professor of English, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Swagato Ganguly, Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India; and Prof. Babu Thaliath, Professor & Chairperson, Centre for German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Dr. Bharat Wariavwalla, Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

Sitar Recital

By Ayan Sengupta from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Manilal Nag and Pt Kushal Das and at present receiving talim from           Pt Partha Chatterjee and Pt Ajoy Chakraborty under the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship 2017

 

Accompanist: Zuheb Ahmed Khan of Delhi on the tabla

 

(Collaboration: Sanskriti – Madhobi Chatterji Fellowship)