A discussion based on a book edited by Mohini Mullick and Madhuri S. Sondhi
 
Speakers: Prof. Simona Sawhney, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Prof. Rakesh Pandey, CSDS; Prof. Wagish Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (retd); and Prof. Aloka Parasher Sen, University of Hyderabad
English educated Indians, access the country's classical intellectual traditions largely through translations of works written originally in Indian languages, mainly Sanskrit. It is time to analyze the problems that arise when vocabularies representing a unique world view, are sought to be made intelligible in an alien language with its own cultural history. Discussants will explore various facets – theoretical, social and political – of the situation arising out of this epistemological challenge
 

Release and Discussion on the book by Dr. Aparna Basu

 

Padmashri Smt. Vidyaben Shah, formerly President, NDMC and Indian Council of Child Welfare, will release the book

 

Speaker: Dr. Nasir Tyabji, Director and Professor, Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Milia Islamia

 

Chair: Ambassador C.R. Gharekhan, Chairman,  Indira Gandhi National Centre of the Arts

 

Lallubhai Samaldas (1863-1936) belonged to the distinguished Diwan family of Bhavnagar state.  The ideals of economic nationalism inspired him and he wanted to setup enterprises owned and managed by Indians. Banking and insurance were then entirely British owned. Lallubhai with a group of like minded citizens of Bombay set up the Bank of India in 1906. He helped to setup the Bank of Baroda and was its Chairman for many years. He was founder Director and Chairman of the Bombay Life Assurance Corporation. He was a pioneer of the cement industry and established one of India's earliest cement factories in Porbunder in 1913. He setup a sugar mill in Baramati and started the Bhavnagar Electric Supply Corporation which even today supplies electricity to the state. Lallubhai was one of the founders of the Scindia Steam Naviagation Company, the first Indian shipping company. The lasting contribution of Lallubhai was in the field of the Co-operative movement in India and at his initiative the Bombay Provincial Cooperative Bank and Land Mortgage Bank were set up. Lallubhai's interests were not confined to business and commerce

 

(70 min; 2013; dvd; English & Hindi)

A film by Amit Dutta who will introduce the screening

 

Followed by a discussion

 

A true tour de force of colour, structure, and rhythm developed out of contemporary artist Paramjit Singh’s works in oil and charcoal, an amazing synthesis of painting and cinema. In the film, Dutta tells the story of a wandering painter who heads into a forest after noticing a strange footprint and hearing a strange melody. This walk into the depths of nature will lead him to face his most intimate self

 

Speaker: Dr. Deepak Natarajan was head of the Cardiology department of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, and Interventional Cardiology departments of several corporate hospitals. He has been cardiologist to the President of India

 

Chair: Prof. Khalilullah 

 

The talk shall underscore the evolution of anti-hypertensive drug treatment based upon controlled trials, and the current position of cardiac societies in the treatment of hypertension. Every third adult in India and more than a billion worldwide suffer from high blood pressure. Half a century of rigorous studies documenting treatment and prevention of heart attacks, strokes and death with drug therapy have however so far failed to identify the lowest goal that is both safe and effective

 

 

Keki Daruwalla, well known poet, in conversation with Rukmini Bhaya Nair

 

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Partha Sen, Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

Speaker: Prof. Partha Sen, Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

Introduction: Shri Suhas Borker

 

China has been remarkable in its ability to pull millions out of poverty in an unprecedented short span of time. It now faces a middle income trap – one that a lot of other economies have faced before. China, instead of focusing on how to escape that trap, wants to build a financial capitalist structure. Is that possible? A Communist Party sponsored financial growth? In the meantime, it has also raised the political temperature by engaging in provocative behavior in the South China Sea. If this attempt is to supplant the US, it is not winning any friends in the region. China’s economics and politics are united by hubris. This is bad news for those who see China playing a positive role in changing the existing global order

 

 

Presented by Students of Pramod Kingston 

Recitals by Abhiraj Darbari; Aubhik Mazumdar; Christine Grace Khumukcham; Eric Mervin A.; Esha Bharadwaj; Meher Nandrajog; Nevin Manuel A. ; Rohan Samuel; Samuel Peter; and Tuhina Sharma

 

 

Smt Manjari Sinha, music critic; Smt Shanti Hiranand, well-known vocalist; and Prof. Partho Datta, University of Delhi will discuss Beyond Music: Maestros in Conversation – Interviewers Geeta Sahai and Shrinkhla Sahai (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2015)

 

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Some Lesser Known Monuments of Vidharba

Speaker: Shri T. Alone, Director (Monuments), Archaeological Survey of India

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande