Speakers: Air Vice-Marshal (Retd.) Kapil Kak; Major General (Retd.) Ashok K Mehta; and Ambassador TCA Raghavan

 

Moderator: Dr. Dhananjay Tripathi, Department of International Relations, South Asian University

 

Exhibition in the Auditorium Foyer

Peace - an exhibition of letters, paintings, poems of students of India and Pakistan 

 

(Collaboration: Aaghaz e Dosti is a joint Indo-Pak Friendship Initiative of Mission Bhartiyam (India) and The

Catalyst of Peace (Pakistan)

 

 

By Yilian Cañizares, violinist and singer from Cuba based in Switzerland

With Daniel Stawinski on the piano

 

(Collaboration: Seher and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council)

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Awake: The Life of Yogananda (86 min; 2014; dvd; English)

Directors: Paola di Florio, Lisa Leeman

 

The film is an unconventional biography about Paramahansa Yogananda who authored “Autobiography of a Yogi”.  By personalising his own quest for enlightenment and sharing his struggles along the path, Yogananda made ancient Vedic teachings accessible to a modern audience, attracting many followers and inspiring millions to practice yoga today.  Filmed over three years and at 30 countries, the documentary examines the world of yoga, modern and ancient, east and west and explores why millions today have turned their attention inwards, bucking the limitations of the material world in pursuit of self-realisation

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

 

 

 

 

A discussion on the book edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Yagati Chinna Rao 

 

Panelists: Prof. T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Vijaya Ramaswamy, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Shashi Bhushan Upadhya, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU

 

Chair: Professor Sukhdev Thorat

 

(Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

 

 

 

By the Indian Naval Symphonic Orchestra

 

Conducted by Cmdr V.C. D’Cruz

 

The origin of the Indian Naval Band goes back to 1945 when it was formed with a handful of Naval musicians. It has come a long way since then and today the Navy has many trained musicians in its ranks at various bands across the country. The Indian Naval Band has regaled and enthralled audiences across the country and around the globe. The musicians accompany Naval ships during goodwill visits to many foreign shores, to play in ensemble with the Bands of these foreign nations

 

(Collaboration : The Indian Navy)

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Alan Roland, psychoanalyst, author, artist and playwright/librettist from USA.  He has made seminal contributions in the area of cross-cultural psychology with Asians and Asian Americans, having written three books on the subject

 

Discussants: Dr. Madhu Sarin and Dr. Ashis Nandy

 

Chair: Prof. Honey Oberoi

 

 

 

By Swati Wangnoo Tiwari from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Geetanjali Lal

 

 

 

Carnatic Vocal Recital 

By S.R. Vinay Sharva, disciple of Bangalore S. Shankar and  Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. Nedunuri Krishnamurthy 

Accompanists: G.Raghavendra Prasath (violin) and Kumbakonam N. Padmanaban (mridangam)

 

 

 

 

Carnatic Vocal Recital 

By Srividhya Sairam, disciple of Smt T.M. Prabhavathi of MLV School 

Accompanists: Delhi R. Sridhar (violin) and V. Shankar Raman (mridangam)

CANCELLED

 

 

Photographs by Jade Doskow, architectural and landscape photographer from New York known for her rigorously composed and eerily poetic images that examine the intersection of people, nature, and time

 

 

 

Since 2007, Jade Doskow has been photographing the remains of World’s Fair sites, once iconic global attractions that have often been repurposed for less noble aspirations, or have been neglected and fallen into decay. The exhibition brings together the substantial body of work that Doskow has completed over the past decade, including iconic monuments such as the Seattle Space Needle, the Eiffel Tower, Brussels’ Palais des Expositions and New York’s Unisphere